in july 2015 he announced, via the bbc, that in early 2016 he would retire from regular presenting duties on the programme and would, instead, be its 'special correspondent' with 'responsibility for charting the course of the constitutional changes at the heart of the uk political debate', as well as the bbc news's books editor, contributing a book review to the saturday morning editions of "today". in his 21-plus years on "today", naughtie had anchored every bbc radio uk election results programme since 1997 and had worked on every us presidential election since 1988, the bbc added.