Kevin Marsh (born 14 November 1954) is the Editor of the

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Early life

He was born in

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, in 1954 to John and Elizabeth Jill Marsh. He attended

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from 1966–73 and became Captain of School, as well as Captain of Cricket. He read Classics and English at

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and gained an MA in 1978. He also wrote for

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Career

BBC

He joined the BBC as a news trainee in 1978. After working in Blackburn, Birmingham and Belfast, he joined the

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Programme, ''

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'' - then presented by

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. In 1986 he joined ITN and returned to the

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at the beginning of 1988 as Deputy editor of ''The World at One''. In August 1989 he became Editor of '' PM'', moving on three years later to edit ''The World at One''. In 1996, he became joint editor of both ''The World at One'' and ''PM'' and in 1998, launched the new Sunday morning news programme ''

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'', presented by

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''Today'' programme

He became editor of the ''

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'' programme in November 2002, succeeding

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who had resigned the previous September. In May 2003, ''Today'' became embroiled in a row with the Government over an early morning claim made by reporter

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that the Government "probably knew" that one of the key claims made in its September 2002 dossier detailing Iraq's WMD "was wrong". Marsh did not give evidence to Lord Hutton during the subsequent inquiry; Hutton criticised the editing procedures on ''Today''.

BBC College of Journalism

In April 2006, Marsh left ''Today'' to become Editor at the BBC College of Journalism, a new venture that was set up in 2005 in the wake of the Hutton report and the recommendations of the Neil committee which examined the BBC's response to the inquiry's findings. The College is not a physical entity but an

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online set of courses. Marsh was a participant and panellist at the

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annual meetings in

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in 2004, 2005 and 2006, is a visiting fellow at

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Media School, a fellow of the

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and a member of

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Personal life

He married Melissa Sue Fletcher in 1979, and they have a son and daughter.

External links

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