Channel Seven's Michael Usher and Angela Cox 'in training to replace' Mark Ferguson on the embattled network's weekday news bulletin after several high-profile resignations

Mark Ferguson looks set to be shafted as the weekday night newsreader at Channel Seven amid several high-profile resignations at the embattled network. The rumoured nightly news shakeup comes as the bloodbath continues at Channel Seven in the wake of the Bruce Lehrmann sex and drugs allegations that hit the network's flagship current affairs show, Spotlight. The nightly news shakeup comes as the bloodbath continues at Channel Seven in the wake of the Bruce Lehrmann sex and drugs allegations that hit the network's flagship current affairs show, Spotlight Seven also became the subject of a defamation case when Benjamin Cohen was wrongly named on Sunrise as the Bondi Junction killer. Seven confirmed last month that Craig McPherson - partner to Dancing With The Stars host Sonia Kruger - had suddenly left his position as network director of news and public affairs after nine years in the job 'Anthony brings a compelling vision to the Director of News and Current Affairs and Editor-in-Chief of Seven West Media role,' newly-appointed SWM managing director and chief executive officer, Jeff Howard, said.