It is the march of BBC World News – the corporation's commercially funded English-language TV news station, which airs on cable and satellite around the world outside the UK – that domestic News channel staffers perhaps fear the most.
The opaque state lobby registers, together with the Federal register, are littered with former government staffers, high ranking political advisors and former politicians whose experience is now being put to good use by the resources and energy majors.
Under federal election rules, candidates have a limited window to pay for offices and staffers without declaring their candidacy.
Staffers say there is increasing pressure on the reporters to file stories which will be popular and reporters whose stories reach the top 10 are applauded by management.
While Clinton has already had more than 40 staffers on the ground since April in the state, which holds the first nominating contest in the Democratic primary, O'Malley has locked down one of Iowa's top Democratic operatives.
Even so, Brussels staffers say that the lighter touch of their regulation would avoid the risk of decimating Africa's mineral industry through the collateral damage caused by an investment flight.
The jobs of the remaining journos from the unit are uncertain but some staffers will be redeployed.
The international panel also found that the prosecutor general's part of the investigation was understaffed and not working up to international standards, with only three full-time staffers on Euromaidan cases.
In the 2014 mid-terms, O'Malley paid for 29 campaign staffers on races across the country.
Anton Nosik, a blogger and web entrepreneur, said it would not have been difficult for someone to steal the password to Medvedev's account, since it was likely that several staffers had access to it and did not use additional security measures linked to one person's phone number.
One senior aide who works for the senator said that on their first day on the job, staffers were given a singular mandate: make friends with Democrats, and persuade senators across the aisle to partner on joint legislation that would appeal to liberals.
