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Mark Mardell (born 10 September 1957, in Hillingdon, Middlesex[1]) is the North American Editor for BBC News. He has provided coverage for each United Kingdom general election since 1992.
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Education
Mardell was educated at the independent school Epsom College in Surrey, England, followed by the University of Kent, where he studied Politics.
Life and career
Mardell began his career reporting and reading the news for the commercial station Radio Tees. He then worked at Radio Aire in Leeds before moving to Independent Radio News in London, where he became industrial editor covering the miner's strike and then dodging charging police horses during the Wapping print dispute.
Mardell first appeared on television on Channel 4's The Sharp End. He joined the BBC in 1989 as political correspondent for the BBC Six O'Clock News.
From 1992 to 2000, he worked as political editor for BBC Two's Newsnight programme. During this time he covered many political stories including the fall of Margaret Thatcher's, and later, John Major's government and the rise of Tony Blair and New Labour. He returned to the BBC's Six O'Clock News, before becoming chief political correspondent and moving to the BBC Ten O'Clock News in 2003, a position he retained until 2005, when he became Europe Editor.
He regularly presented Broadcasting House and The World at One on BBC Radio 4 and presented a humorous review on This Week, BBC One's political chat show. Mardell left his post as Europe Editor to replace Justin Webb as now BBC North American Editor when Webb became a presenter on Radio 4's Today programme.
Mardell is married and has three children.
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