Justin Webb has been appointed to the new post of BBC News North America editor, ready for the 2008 presidential election. Webb, who was appointed as BBC’s chief radio and Washington correspondent in 2001, takes up his new role in December. He said: “For a reporter there is no better posting and, on the eve of the 2008 election, no better time to be here.”
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