Hannah Barnes, a senior journalist at BBC Newsnight, wrote on X/Twitter:
“After 15 wonderful years, it’s with a mix of great sadness and huge excitement that I have decided to leave the BBC. I’m enormously grateful for the opportunity to work at the world’s leading broadcaster, alongside so many exceptional colleagues.”
During her decade tenure at the BBC, she held the posts of senior broadcast journalist/output editor and senior broadcast journalist in Radio Current Affairs.
Previously, she worked at Global as a broadcast journalist at GCap commercial radio network.
Barnes has a B.A. from the University of Oxford and a postgraduate diploma in broadcast journalism from City, University of London.
