Davis replaces Paxman as lead anchor and faces the challenge of attracting a bigger audience to the BBC show
Evan Davis is the new star presenter of BBC2's Newsnight but it almost didn't happen. So attached has Davis grown to Today on Radio 4, which he has co-presented for the past six years, that he spent "the most uncomfortable week agonising" about whether he should stay or go.
Appropriately for a presenter steeped in statistics, the BBC's erstwhile economics editor drew up a cost-benefit analysis weighing up the pros and cons of replacing Jeremy Paxman as Newsnight's lead anchor, to little effect.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 37 minutes ago.
Evan Davis is the new star presenter of BBC2's Newsnight but it almost didn't happen. So attached has Davis grown to Today on Radio 4, which he has co-presented for the past six years, that he spent "the most uncomfortable week agonising" about whether he should stay or go.
Appropriately for a presenter steeped in statistics, the BBC's erstwhile economics editor drew up a cost-benefit analysis weighing up the pros and cons of replacing Jeremy Paxman as Newsnight's lead anchor, to little effect.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 37 minutes ago.