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Joanna Gosling, 51, has confirmed she is leaving the BBC and will go off air for the last time on January 26. She decided to take voluntary redundancy along with colleagues David Eades and
Tim Willcox amid the BBC's plans to merge its international and UK news channels. Taking on Twitter, she said: "You may have already heard, but I wanted to confirm, that I have
decided to leave the BBC and will go off air on the 26th January. "I am very grateful for the kind messages I’ve had from so many of you. I’m proud of my career in news." Her
followers took to the comments to show their appreciation for her years of service to the BBC. BBC Sports News presenter James Pearce said: "Joanna, you should be so proud. I was
always happy to discover it was going to be you asking me questions. READ MORE: BBC NEWS EXODUS SEES PRESENTERS QUIT AS MERGER SPARKS 'HUMILIATION' "Intelligence, charisma,
and also a touch of humour when appropriate. Good luck with whatever comes next." BBC 5 Live star Scott Bryan said: "Will miss you Joanna, like many other viewers. Well done at a
great run." Emily Maitlis responded: "You have so much to be proud of Joanna. And you will flourish with whatever comes next. Xx" Martin Lewis said: "Best of luck
wherever pastures take you. There is life outside the beeb (my last day as staff there was 31 Dec 1999)" READ MORE: BBC EDITOR ALED GLYNNE DAVIES’ BODY FOUND IN SEA, INQUEST HEARS
Thanking her fans for their support she later said: "Yet again your response to something I’ve done is overwhelmingly lovely and I am so grateful. I don’t want to respond to some,
because it ignores others, and I can’t do all because it would clog up your timeline! So this is to say, I’m reading everything and THANK YOU." Her colleague Eades has presented his
final show already, with Willcox's exit date yet to come to light. The trio decided against taking part in the recruitment process for a new team of six lead presenters on the proposed
new channel. The channel will combine the UK 24-hour news service and BBC World News. One source told Deadline: “People are incandescent. It’s humiliating — you feel like you’re 21 again and
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increase, earning up to £230,000 ($278,000) a year. The merged channel should go live in April 2023 as part of plans to cut costs and cater to an increasingly digital audience. Gosling
joined the UK BBC News channel in 1999 and is one of the station’s most recognised faces. The journalist and author previously worked for Independent Local Radio, Central Television in the
Midlands and Sky News.