Peter Horrocks

Peter Horrocks (born 1959) is the Head of the BBC newsroom within BBC News. He was educated at the independent King's College School in Wimbledon, London and at Christ's College, Cambridge.

Peter joined the BBC in October 1981 as a news trainee. He went on to work for "Newsnight" as an assistant producer and then producer. After working as a senior producer, intake editor and output editor on "Breakfast Time" (now "Breakfast"), he became deputy editor of "Panorama" in 1988. In 1992, Peter edited the BBC's television election night results programme. He also edited BBC Television's coverage of the Budget, by-elections and local elections together with the 1994 European Election results programme and the General Election results programme in May 1997. In May 1992, Peter was appointed editor of BBC Two's social affairs programme, "Public Eye", a position he held until January 1994 when he launched "Here And Now", the BBC's popular current affairs magazine programme. Peter became editor of "Newsnight" in April 1994 and left to take up the position of editor, "Panorama" in December 1997. He was appointed Head of Current Affairs in June 2000. Since then he has been executive producer of "Brits", "True Spies", "Smallpox 2002", "The Day Britain Stopped", "Dirty War" and "The Power Of Nightmares".

Peter won Bafta awards in 1997 and 2005 for his editorship of "Newsnight" and for "The Power of Nightmares".

He became Head of Television News at the BBC in September 2005, replacing Roger Mosey who moved to the position of Director of Sport for the corporation.

In November 2007, following a complete restructure of the departments within BBC News, he became Head of the BBC newsroom [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/peter_horrocks/ The Editors - Peter Horrocks] BBC News]

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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news BBC News]