My track record on industry gossip is so lamentable that I try not to pass on what little I hear. But this rumour of a personnel shift ahoy at Al Jazeera, has the ring of credibility – and it sounds like a sensible regrouping by the Middle Eastern news network.

Word is that the bureau chief of Al Jazeera English in London, Sue Phillips, will be moved up the corporate ranks.

Her brief will be to bring together Al Jazeera’s sixty or so Arab and English offices around the world. So let’s see…