Still they come

Four weeks hence, James Harding will explain to BBC News how he's cutting 500 or more jobs over the next two years.

Today, one of his key lieutenants, Jonathan Munro, hired from ITN, has announced two new hires from ... ITN - Lucy Manning and Ed Campbell. Lucy is apparently to be a Special Correspondent, and Ed a Special Correspondents' Editor. I can find no record of a job advert. Lucy and Ed have shared a number of awards for their coverage of home-beat stories.

Lucy joined ITN as a graduate trainee, after editing the Oxford University paper Cherwell in the Hilary Term 1995. She's moved through Channel 5 news, ITN's Westminster team (where she acted as a producer for Michael Brunson and John Sergeant), to Channel 4. There, she made the shift from producer to reporter, coming back to the ITN mothership to cover the 2010 election. BBC suits probably didn't notice her until

she started doorstepping George Entwistle, calling his resignation early on Twitter, and then harassing Lord Patten.

There's a scholarly work here on her involvement in the Gordon Brown "Bullygate" story.