Biographies

Controller, BBC News Channel and BBC News at One O'Clock

Kevin Bakhurst is Controller of the BBC News channel and BBC News at One O'clock. In 2007, the BBC News channel won a Golden Nymph for the coverage of the Lebanon War.

Previously Kevin was Editor of the BBC Ten O'Clock News, having been appointed in March 2004 after being Acting Editor since September 2003.

Kevin was born in 1965 and attended Haberdasher's Aske's School in Elstree and then St John's College, Cambridge, where he read French and German. After a brief spell with PriceWaterhouse, he became a researcher, then assistant producer at the BBC Business and Economics Unit in 1989.

In 1990 Kevin became a producer of the BBC Nine O'Clock News. He gained production experience in Brussels for BBC News in 1994/5.

From 1996 to 2001 he was assistant editor of the Nine O'Clock and Ten O'Clock News.

From 2001 to 2003 he was an editor at BBC News 24 and from 2003 to 2004 he became acting editor of the BBC Ten O'Clock News – and was confirmed in that position in March 2004.

In 2004, the Ten O'Clock News received a BAFTA for its coverage of the Madrid bombing, and a Royal Television Society Award for News Programme of the Year.

The programme also won an the RTS News Event award for its coverage of the Darfur crisis in 2004 and the Ten won a second BAFTA in 2005 for coverage of the July 7 bombings in London.

Kevin Bakhurst was in Washington to cover both the Bill Clinton and George W Bush elections and also the political aftermath of 9/11. He also covered the Hong Kong handover in 1997.

He produced the coverage of President Obama's Inauguration in January 2009.

The BBC News channel won RTS News Channel of the Year for 2005 and 2008.