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ABC News appoints new London chief, Euro correspondent.

Samantha Hawley to become London Bureau Chief & Linton Besser is Europe Correspondent.

ABC News has announced two new correspondent appointments to its London bureau, with Samantha Hawley (pictured) to become the next London Bureau Chief and Linton Besser one of the Europe Correspondents.

Hawley will replace Lisa Millar, who leaves the Bureau Chief post in September after three years in the role. Besser will take over in coming months from Steve Cannane as Europe Correspondent.

Hawley’s previous roles include being South-East Asia Correspondent, based in Bangkok, and Indonesia Bureau Chief, based in Jakarta.

Her coverage has included the military coup in Thailand, the disappearance of MH370 and the downing of MH17, the Nepal earthquakes and the 2016 Jakarta terrorist attack. She found the mother of “Baby Gammy” and provided exclusive coverage of the Thai adoption scandal, broke the story of how some Jakarta mosques were providing platforms to ISIS recruiters and secured the interview with Jakarta Governor Ahok which became a flashpoint for Islamic fundamentalists in Indonesia.

Besser (pictured above), previously with Fairfax Media, is currently one of Four Corners’ investigative reporters. Last year he became news himself when he and camera operator Louie Eroglu were arrested and briefly detained in Malaysia for asking questions about Prime Ministerial corruption.

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