Stephen Mitchell (journalist)

Stephen Graham Mitchell (born 14 July 1949^[1]^[2]) is a British journalist who has been Head of News Programmes, BBC, since 2007 and Deputy Director, BBC News, since 2008. He announced his retirement without payment from the position of Head of BBC news programmes in December 2012^[3]^[4] in the wake of the Pollard Report into the Jimmy Savile scandal.

He was educated at Loughborough Grammar School and Manchester University.

He began his journalistic career in newspapers, working for The Times 1971–1974, before moving to the BBC, where he worked in Radio news.

References[edit]

^ ‘MITCHELL, Stephen Graham’, Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009 ; online edn, Nov 2009 accessed 1 Sept 2010
^ http://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/m/2237/Stephen+Graham.aspx ^{[dead link]}
^ "Profile: Stephen Mitchell". BBC News. 19 December 2012.
^ "Pollard report: BBC News deputy Stephen Mitchell retires without payout". TheGuardian.com. 20 December 2012.

External links[edit]

https://web.archive.org/web/20090923223905/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/news/stephenmitchell.shtml

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[Whoswho-1] ‘MITCHELL, Stephen Graham’, Who's Who 2010, A & C Black, 2010; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2009 ; online edn, Nov 2009 accessed 1 Sept 2010

[Debretts-2] ttp://www.debretts.com/people/biographies/browse/m/2237/Stephen+Graham.aspx ^{[dead link]}

[BBCnewsprofile-3] "Profile: Stephen Mitchell". BBC News. 19 December 2012.

[Guardian2012-12-20-4] "Pollard report: BBC News deputy Stephen Mitchell retires without payout". TheGuardian.com. 20 December 2012.

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