Also on Thursday, the BBC sent a memo to its employees around the world stating that because of a threat received by the BBC's Baghdad bureau, the network would temporarily move the newsgathering staff out of that bureau to unspecified locations.
She is an assignment manager who dispatches correspondents, crews, photographers and producers on assignments for the Washington bureau of NBC network news.
Our hosting of the bureau, an independent network of correspondents and commentators under the editor-in-chief, Kelly Golnoush Niknejad, builds on Saeed Kamali Dehghan's Iran blog, Julian Borger's Global Security blog and Ian Black's On the Middle East web column to give the Guardian unrivalled coverage of the region.
For instance, network bureau chiefs banded together in 2009 to defend Fox News as the White House attempted to freeze out the network.
TPMDC spoke with a network bureau chief this afternoon familiar with the situation who was surprised that Fox was portraying the news as networks coming to its rescue.
The cost savings are significant, and the one-man bureaus allow the network to cover more territory.
To Mr. Perry, that number seems small, given the company's customer base, and he correctly notes that the bureau rates Security Networks an A+.
Bolton is one of the larger bureaux in the network of 394 offices which last year advised clients on 7.1m new problems.
ABC's office in Nairobi is the network's only bureau in Africa since the closure of its Johannesburg bureau, and it is the only bureau on the continent exclusively maintained by an American network.
A more recent arrival, Bloomberg, started out as a provider of such information but has turned into a news agency as well, creating a worldwide network of bureaus and syndicating stories to newspapers.The financial crisis is taking a terrible toll on both financial-services firms and newspapers, so you might expect the news agencies that serve them to be in trouble too.
