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Kevin Bakhurst (born December 1965) is an English journalist and media executive who has been the
Director General of RTÉ, the Irish
national broadcaster
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, since July 2023. He previously served as the managing director of
news and current affairs and deputy Director General at RTÉ from 2012 to 2016, and before that as group director of content and media policy at the UK regulator
Ofcom.
Career
Bakhurst attended
Haberdashers' Aske's School in
Elstree
Elstree is a large village in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire, England. It is about northwest of central London on the former A5 road, that follows the course of Watling Street. In 2011, its population was 5,110. It forms part of t ...
and then
St John's College,
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a College town, university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cam ...
where he read French and German. After a brief spell of working at
Price Waterhouse
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he joined the BBC in 1989, first as a researcher and then as an assistant producer at the
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Business and Economics Unit.
In 1990 he was promoted to producer of the ''
BBC Nine O'Clock News
The ''BBC Nine O'Clock News'' was the flagship BBC News programme. It was launched on 14 September 1970 and ran until 13 October 2000, when it was replaced by the ''BBC Ten O'Clock News''.
History
The ''Nine O'Clock News'' was the BBC's flags ...
'', where he remained until he moved to
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
in 1994 to gain further experience for BBC News. In 1996, after two years in Brussels, he returned to the UK to become the assistant editor on the ''BBC Nine O'Clock News'', remaining with the programme when it became the ''
BBC Ten O'Clock News
''BBC News at Ten'' formerly known as the ''BBC Ten O'Clock News'' or the ''Ten O'Clock News'' is the flagship evening news programme for the BBC News channel and British television channel BBC One on weekdays and Sundays at 10:00pm. Huw Edwa ...
''. From 2001 to 2003 he was an editor at the BBC News channel, and followed that by being named acting editor of the ''BBC Ten O'Clock News''. He was then confirmed as the permanent editor of the programme in March 2004. During his two years as editor of the ''BBC Ten O'Clock News'' it won two
Baftas for its coverage of the
Madrid Bombings and the
2005 London Tube bombings, and a
Royal Television Society award for News Programme of The Year. He was formerly the controller of the
BBC News
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channel, a position he held from December 2005 until September 2012, and was also controller of the BBC News at One bulletin. In May 2010 he became deputy head of the BBC Newsroom.
From September 2012 to October 2016, Bakhurst was the managing director of news and current affairs at
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
's national public service broadcaster RTÉ. He also served as acting Director General for a six-month period.
In April 2023, RTÉ announced the appointment of Bakhurst as the next
Director General of RTÉ from July following an extensive and competitive recruitment process.
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1965 births
Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge
Living people
RTÉ executives
BBC executives
21st-century Irish journalists
Directors-General of RTÉ