Tuesday, 19 April 2016

"Mishal Husain will be looking into migration"


That edition of Samira Ahmed's Newswatch included an interview with James Stephenson, News Editor for BBC News and Current Affairs (the man who has just made anti-UKIP Jasmine Lawrence his deputy). During the interview he said that the BBC will be broadcasting more EU referendum-related programmes like Europe: Them or Us over the coming weeks, and that "Mishal Husain will be looking into migration". 

Wonder if that's anything to do with the BBC's World on the Move Day - an all-day, multi-platform 'event' focusing on migration that will fill the BBC's airwaves on 16 May? The BBC's press release says that Mishal Husain will have an important role in that too - though it doesn't connect the event to the EU referendum.