Last updated February 2007
Category: Senior Staff
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Kevin Marsh became Editor of the BBC College of Journalism in February 2006.
One of his first tasks was to establish an online presence for college which launched officially in January 2007.
He joined the BBC as a news trainee in 1978 and, after
working in Belfast and Birmingham, joined The World At One team in June
1980.
The first edition of The World This Weekend, for which
he was responsible, coincided with the vote in Parliament to send the
Task Force to the Falklands.
Kevin then went to work for ITN and, after a short spell
on News At Ten, rejoined the BBC as Deputy Editor of The World At One
in 1987.
He was material in introducing Today presenter James
Naughtie to the BBC - as the presenter of The World At One - and relaunching
the programme.
Among the programme's major successes was a world exclusive
interview with Salman Rushdie following the Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa
on the author.
Kevin was made Editor of PM in August 1989 and moved
to edit The World At One in 1993 before bringing the programmes together
under a single Editor in 1996.
In 1998 he developed and launched Radio 4's Broadcasting House.
In addition to editing The World At One, The World
This Weekend, PM and Broadcasting House, he produced numerous specials
for Radio 4 and has won numerous Sony Awards.
He was appointed Editor of Today in November 2002.
Born in 1954, he was educated at The Grammar School,
Doncaster, followed by Christ Church, Oxford.
