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Mike Smartt
OBE is a British journalist and broadcaster, and was the founder and editor-in-chief of
BBC News Online
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's Internet news service. With Project Director Bob Eggington, he led the team that launched the service in 1997, and held the post of editor-in-chief of BBC News Interactive, which also encompassed interactive television news, until 2004. During this time, News Online won all four interactive news BAFTA awards (the category was scrapped after the fourth win) and most of the world's online news prizes, including the US-based so-called Webby "internet Oscars" on a number of occasions.
Originally, many had doubts about the feasibility of the web service, including Smartt's friend and BBC World Editor
John Simpson, who described the project as sounding "quite nerdy". Later Simpson conceded that News Online had become one of the main outlets for his work. At the 2003
European Online Journalism Awards, Smartt received an award for outstanding contribution to online
journalism
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Europe
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, and in 2004 he was appointed an
OBE for services to broadcasting.
Before being placed in editorial charge of the launch of the online service, he was, for 20 years, a correspondent for BBC Television News covering major news stories at home and abroad. He was also, during the late-1980s, a main co-presenter on the ''
BBC Six O'Clock News
The ''BBC News at Six'' is the evening news programme bulletin from the BBC. Produced by BBC News, the programme is broadcast on the BBC News channel and on British television channel BBC One on weekdays at 6:00pm. For a long period, the ''BBC ...
'' and 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 ...
'' and an occasional presenter of all the other BBC News output on TV.
Mike started his career at the Corporation at "
BBC Radio Humberside
BBC Radio Humberside is the BBC's local radio station serving East Yorkshire and North & North East Lincolnshire.
It broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Queen's Gardens in Hull.
According to RAJAR, the statio ...
" in the early 1970s as a News Producer and very occasional rock music DJ, following some years learning the craft of journalism on newspapers. During the late 1970s and early 1980s he was the BBC's staff reporter and a presenter of BBC North's (Leeds) regional TV news programme, ''
Look North''.
Smartt, who spent more than 30 years at the BBC, was succeeded by
Pete Clifton
Pete Clifton is Editor-in-Chief at the Press Association (PA). Prior to the appointment he was Executive Producer for MSN in the UK and former Head of Editorial Development at BBC News.
Career
Clifton was previously the editor of Ceefax, and befo ...
at News Interactive. He now consults, lectures and writes about journalism and interactive news and is also editor-in-chief of World Press Photos Online magazine Enter.
References
External links
BBC News Online - Front Page About BBC News - News InteractiveSee the site from 1997 to present at Archive.orgOBE for BBC website founderThe NetMedia European Online Journalism Awards 2003Enter - World Press Photo Online Magazine
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Living people
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Online journalists