Radio 4 Today programme appoints new business presenter
Dominic O’Connell, Business Editor of The Sunday Times, has been appointed as the new business presenter of the Radio 4 Today Programme.
Published: 27 April 2016
I am excited - and quite daunted - to be joining Today. It is a national institution of which listeners expect a lot, and it is an honour to be a part of it.
Jasmin Buttar, Editor, BBC Business and Economics, says: “The business slots on the Today programme play a big role in setting the business news agenda for each day, so it is great for the BBC to have such a high-calibre, agenda-setting journalist taking on this position.
“Dominic has exceptional contacts in the business world and a track record in original journalism that will be invaluable to Today and the BBC’s business news more widely.”
Dominic has been Business Editor of The Sunday Times since 2010, and joined the paper in 2001. Before that, he was part of the launch team of Sunday Business.
Under his editorship, the paper has broken a series of big business stories, including the news of BHS’s pending administration, and previously the Pfizer bid for Astra Zeneca, the largest ever attempted takeover of a British company. He revealed allegations of bribery of the Suharto family in Indonesia by Rolls-Royce, which led to a Serious Fraud Office investigation; the sale of Monarch airlines to Greybull; Anglo American's takeover of De Beers; and the ghost flights scandal at Heathrow.
Dominic O’Connell says: “I am excited - and quite daunted - to be joining Today. It is a national institution of which listeners expect a lot, and it is an honour to be a part of it."
Notes to Editors
As well as his role on Today, Dominic will appear regularly on Business Live on BBC World News and the News Channel, on World Service Radio business output, and he will contribute to the online business pages.
Dominic O’Connell replaces Simon Jack, who was recently appointed BBC business editor.
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