I may have misread, but are they saying they’re discontinuing a Europe correspondent?
JohnM
Not a big surprise if true. Before 2008, their coverage of, and our interest in European affairs was unfortunately almost always about the cash anyway.
trobuff
Nope, that seems to be the case alright.
trobuff
Bear in mind they have Europe Editor Tony Connolly over in Brussels too. Paul Cunningham, Europe Correspondent, was most recently covering the referendum stuff in Scotland.
Willie Banjo
There’s an election there next year…
Buzz
Jeez they had a perfectly good one in Brian O’Connell and they got rid of him.
andyourpointiswhatexactly
Brian did a bit of a Graham Norton and got fierce posh after his years in London.
“Where is he now?” I was going to ask but I did the donkey work meself. “media and comms for the European Council on Foreign Relations”, apparently.
Mé Féin
True. He went native very quickly.
Buzz
He picked up an English accent! I can see that happening to a young adult in their early 20s if they have a musical ear but a guy in his 30s, 40s or whatever age he was when they sent him… bizarre!
trobuff
He was London Editor from the late ’80s. Hardly a brief stint.
Did baldy throw them a bone yesterday?
In between throwing bits of phlegm, quite possibly…
I’ll give it a go. Sure I’m over here anyway.
I may have misread, but are they saying they’re discontinuing a Europe correspondent?
Not a big surprise if true. Before 2008, their coverage of, and our interest in European affairs was unfortunately almost always about the cash anyway.
Nope, that seems to be the case alright.
Bear in mind they have Europe Editor Tony Connolly over in Brussels too. Paul Cunningham, Europe Correspondent, was most recently covering the referendum stuff in Scotland.
There’s an election there next year…
Jeez they had a perfectly good one in Brian O’Connell and they got rid of him.
Brian did a bit of a Graham Norton and got fierce posh after his years in London.
“Where is he now?” I was going to ask but I did the donkey work meself. “media and comms for the European Council on Foreign Relations”, apparently.
True. He went native very quickly.
He picked up an English accent! I can see that happening to a young adult in their early 20s if they have a musical ear but a guy in his 30s, 40s or whatever age he was when they sent him… bizarre!
He was London Editor from the late ’80s. Hardly a brief stint.
Is that from the JobBridge site?
…me too…I was sure I was reading a JoBridge ad.
Ability to do selfies essential.
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