Pete Clifton (b. 1962) is the head of BBC News Interactive and the BBC's head of editorial development for multimedia journalism.
He has been in charge of
BBC NewsBBC News, formerly BBC News and Current Affairs, is the department within the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the corporation's news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online....
Interactive since 18 October 2005 following
Richard DeverellRichard Deverell is Controller of CBBC, the department within the BBC responsible for output aimed at children.-Reputation:Since assuming his post in 2006, Deverell has been ruthless in his efforts to re-align CBBC towards a target audience of 6-12 years...
's 2005 July move to CBBC, first as Chief Operating Officer then as controller. He previously spent two years as
editorEditing is the process of selecting and preparing language, images, sound, video, or film through processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media...
following the departure of Editor-in-chief
Mike SmarttMike Smartt OBE was the founder and editor-in-chief of BBC News Online, the BBC's Internet news service. With Project Director Bob Eggington he led the team which launched the service in 1997, and held the post of editor-in-chief of BBC News Interactive, which also encompassed interactive...
in 2004.
Pete Clifton (b. 1962) is the head of BBC News Interactive and the BBC's head of editorial development for multimedia journalism.
He has been in charge of
BBC NewsBBC News, formerly BBC News and Current Affairs, is the department within the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the corporation's news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online....
Interactive since 18 October 2005 following
Richard DeverellRichard Deverell is Controller of CBBC, the department within the BBC responsible for output aimed at children.-Reputation:Since assuming his post in 2006, Deverell has been ruthless in his efforts to re-align CBBC towards a target audience of 6-12 years...
's 2005 July move to CBBC, first as Chief Operating Officer then as controller. He previously spent two years as
editorEditing is the process of selecting and preparing language, images, sound, video, or film through processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications in various media...
following the departure of Editor-in-chief
Mike SmarttMike Smartt OBE was the founder and editor-in-chief of BBC News Online, the BBC's Internet news service. With Project Director Bob Eggington he led the team which launched the service in 1997, and held the post of editor-in-chief of BBC News Interactive, which also encompassed interactive...
in 2004. The News Interactive department includes
BBC News OnlineBBC News Online is the website of BBC News, the division of the BBC responsible for newsgathering and production. The website is the most popular news website in the United Kingdom and forms a major part of BBC Online ....
, the BBC News
websiteA website is a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed with a common domain name or IP address in an Internet Protocol-based network...
, CBBC Newsround, the
CeefaxCeefax is the BBC's teletext information service transmitted via the analogue signal, starting in 1974 and running until 2012....
teletext service, the digital text service,
On This DayOn This Day is the name of a BBC news archive on the World Wide Web. It contains an online digital library of news stories reported by the BBC on World War II and world events from the 1950s to 2005. There are entries for every day of the year, many including video or audio reports which can be...
, BBC's Interactive TV, the Action Network and a variety of news services to
mobile phoneA mobile phone or mobile is a long-range, electronic device used for mobile telecommunications...
s and other mobile devices.
He also spent two years on loan to
BBC SportBBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC. It became a fully dedicated division of the BBC in 2000. It incorporates programmes such as Match of the Day, Grandstand , Test Match Special, Ski Sunday, Rugby Special and coverage of Formula One motor racing and the Wimbledon Tennis Championships.BBC...
, where he set up the
BBC Sport website in 2000.
Clifton was previously the editor of Ceefax, and before joining the BBC was a news and sports reporter at the
Chronicle and Echo in
NorthamptonNorthampton is a large market town and local government district in the East Midlands region of England. It is about north-west of London and around south-east of Birmingham, and lies on the River Nene...
, a sports journalist at the Exchange Telegraph national news agency, chief sports sub at the UK's
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(PA) and editor of the PA's
TeletextTeletext is a television information retrieval service developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1970s. It offers a range of text-based information, typically including national, international and sporting news, weather and TV schedules...
service.
His successor as Editor of News Interactive was named on 2 December 2005 as Steve Herrmann.
Mr Clifton admitted editing his own Wikipedia entry on the BBC Editors' Blog on the 16th of August, 2007, and said he would now leave the editing of this page to others.