Why Is Joanna Gosling Leaving BBC?

Joanna announced in January 2023 that she will be leaving BBC. She leaves the BBC ahead of a planned merger of the corporation’s TV news channels.

Aside from her, David Eades and Tim Willcox have also announced their departure.

Gosling began her broadcasting career as a trainee reporter, completing a series of work placements at Birmingham’s BBC WM, Fox FM in Oxfordshire and BBC Radio Scotland in Edinburgh, before securing her full-time position with Independent Radio News where she read the news for Chris Moyles on Capital Radio.

On January 2024, Gosling made her final appearance on the BBC News channel, having decided to leave the broadcaster after 23 years, and ahead of the planned merger of BBC News and BBC World News.

Gosling is briefly seen in the 2005 television film Supervolcano presenting a fictional breaking news item about an eruption of the volcanic caldera of Yellowstone National Park