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Revision as of 03:04, 17 August 2007 by 81.153.109.144 (talk) (no need for semicolons there; commas are fine)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Pete Clifton (b. 1962) is the head of BBC News Interactive.
He assumed the role on October 18 2005 following Richard Deverell's 2005 July move to CBBC, first as Chief Operating Officer then as controller. He previously spent two years as editor following the departure of Editor-in-chief Mike Smartt in 2004. The News Interactive department includes BBC News Online, the BBC News website, CBBC Newsround, the Ceefax teletext service, the digital text service, On This Day, BBC's Interactive TV, the Action Network and a variety of news services to mobile phones and other mobile devices.
He also spent two years on loan to BBC Sport, where he set up the BBC Sport website in 2000.
Clifton was previously the editor of Ceefax, and before joining the BBC was a news and sports reporter at the Chronicle and Echo in Northampton, a sports journalist at the Exchange Telegraph national news agency, chief sports sub at the UK's Press Association (PA) and editor of the PA's Teletext service.
His successor as Editor of News Interactive was named on December 2, 2005 as Steve Herrmann.
Mr. Clifton wrote about his own previous editing of this profile on Aug 16 on the BBC Editors' Blog.
Notes
- Kiss, Jemima (2005-10-18). "Head of BBC News Interactive announced". Online Journalism News. Mousetrap Media Ltd. Retrieved 2007-08-16.
- Deverell, Richard (2003-11-25). "News Interactive". ABOUT BBC NEWS. BBC. Retrieved 2007-08-16.
- ^ "Pete Clifton". The Media center at the American Press Institute. Retrieved 2007-08-16.
- "BBC News Interactive's new editor". Entertainment. BBC. 2005-12-02.
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External links
- Clifton, Pete (2005-10-21). "From the editor's desktop". BBC. Retrieved 2007-08-16. final post from Pete Clifton as editor
- Clifton, Pete (2007-08-16). "Misplaced Pages edits". BBC. Retrieved 2007-08-16. Pete Clifton's post on edits to Misplaced Pages
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