Simon Peeks
Head of Journalism and Launch Editor what in the World @Bbc News
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WORK HISTORY
Head of Journalism and Launch Editor what in the World @Bbc News
London, GB
Launch of new daily news podcast for global 16-24 \"news avoider\" market.Build new team Product research and testExecutive lead and oversight on strategy around marketing, sound design, brand design, name, external B2B partnership, promotion, compliance
EDUCATION
Cranfield School of Management
Chartered Management Institute. Level 7 Senior Leader Apprenticeship, Senior Leader Executive Programme.
Poynter Institute
Media Transformation Challenge , BBC News and UK working class audiences
Stradbroke College, Sheffield, UK
NCTJ Journalism
SKILLS
ABOUT SIMON PEEKS
Head of Journalism at BBC News and Senior Leader at the BBC. Managing BBC News teams since 1998; Editor at BBC News since 2012. Journalist since 1989. • Extensive experience of strategic planning and change managment. Currently working on a change project for BBC World Service, involving building a new team in Kenya and launching a co-presentation show from London and Nairobi. • Extensive product launch experience. Launch editor of several new programmes and news products at the BBC, including 2023: news podcast \"What in the World\" for global 16-24-year-olds. • Executive editorial responsibility for five hours of live global news output each weekday on BBC World Service, plus podcasts and documentaries. • Management of different BBC teams; circa 40 staff. Management of team culture, D&I, staff development, recruitment, budgets, industrial relations. • Stakeholder management: global business development; audience and marketing development; programme and product development strategy.• Hearing manager at BBC staff disputes and grievances. • Extensive experience in media industry: radio; digital; social media; television; online; newspapers; news agencies. • 10+ years experience in international news; editor of outside broadcasts around the world. • Editor and lead manager of global special events coverage, such as the Death of Nelson Mandela; several Olympics and football World Cups. • Industry recognition: Team gold award winners at the Association for International Broadcasting and Sony Radio Academy. • 2021 Poynter Institute Executive Fellowship, United States. Media Transformation Challenge: BBC News and UK working class audiences. • Public speaker on behalf of BBC News.
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