BBC's Guerin To Leave Middle East
Controversial BBC correspondent Orla Guerin is to leave her post as Middle East correspondent later this year, TJ can reveal.
An internal corporation email sent on Monday revealed that the 39-year-old, who has come under considerable fire for a perceived anti-Israel bias in her coverage, will leave Jerusalem in December to start a new posting in Johannesburg.
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The announcement of former Bafta-nominated Guerin’s leaving comes weeks after the departure of another controversial correspondent Barbara Plett, who last year said she cried as a dying Yasser Arafat was airlifted from his compound.
Plett’s post is one of the casualties of proposed financial savings at the organisation. According to a BBC spokesman Guerin was leaving as she has already worked in the region for five years, compared to the usual three or four year stint for a news correspondent.
He added that the corporation values comments from all audiences but “to suggest that either reporter was moved from their respective roles due to external criticism is just plain wrong”.
Looking to the future, Seaman said: “We hope that BBC will send an individual of professional standards worthy of journalism if not the BBC.”
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