QUICK TAKES - Jan. 8, 2009
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ABC News is scaling back its presence in Iraq and will rely on BBC News for daily coverage of developments there.
“By working more closely with the BBC, we will increase our capabilities in Iraq and the region, while at the same time freeing our people and resources to concentrate on the unique reporting that our audiences value so highly,” ABC News President David Westin wrote in a memo to employees Wednesday.
The two networks have a long-standing relationship in which they share content.
ABC will maintain a bureau in Baghdad and still plans to send reporters to the country to cover major news stories. But it will no longer have a permanent correspondent based in Iraq, as it did up through the November election, when Terry McCarthy was stationed there.
As the war heads into its sixth year, all of the networks have reduced their manpower in Iraq as costs have mounted.
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