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Peter William Rippon (born 22 August 1965) is a British broadcasting executive. He is Editor of BBC Online Archive. Prior to this he was Editor of
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's current affairs programme ''
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''.


Early life

Peter Rippon was born in
Henley-on-Thames Henley-on-Thames ( ) is a town and civil parish on the River Thames in Oxfordshire, England, northeast of Reading, west of Maidenhead, southeast of Oxford and west of London (by road), near the tripoint of Oxfordshire, Berkshire and Buc ...
.John Plunket
"Peter Rippon: Newsnight editor thrown into centre of Jimmy Savile row"
''The Guardian'', 22 October 2012 He is the son of Robin Rippon and Susan Westcott. He has an older sister and younger brother and sister. He attended the
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, a comprehensive school, in Henley on Thames in the
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district of south-eastern Oxfordshire. He graduated from the
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(UEA) with a BA in Philosophy and Politics, and gained an MSc in International Politics from the
University of Southampton , mottoeng = The Heights Yield to Endeavour , type = Public research university , established = 1862 – Hartley Institution1902 – Hartley University College1913 – Southampton University Coll ...
.


BBC career

Rippon joined the
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in 1989 as a trainee. At Radio 4 he became (concurrently) the Editor of ''
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'', '' PM'', '' iPM'', ''
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'' and ''
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''. He has also edited ''Newshour'' for the
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. Rippon's programmes have won numerous awards including Sony Gold in 2007 for interactivity for ''PM''. Moving into television, on 7 November 2008 he was appointed the Editor of ''Newsnight''. The previous editor, Peter Barron, became Head of PR for
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in the UK. In 2011, it was found by
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that the ''Newsnight'' audience was on average around 450,000. Ten years previously it was around 1 million. When Rippon was editor, ''Newsnight'' was named news programme of the year by the
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(2012). It also won
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(2009, 2011) and Peabody (2010) awards under his leadership.


''Newsnight'' item about Jimmy Savile

In late 2011, Rippon spiked an item about the history of the suspected paedophile
Jimmy Savile Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile (; 31 October 1926 – 29 October 2011) was an English DJ, television and radio personality who hosted BBC shows including ''Top of the Pops'' and ''Jim'll Fix It''. During his lifetime, he was well known ...
on ''Newsnight''. Rippon argued the decision was in part based on the
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reporting there was a lack of evidence. Internal emails revealed that his concern was over the fact the only evidence was from 'the women'. His Editor's blog gives the background of why he, at the time, came to the conclusions that he did. In October 2012, Rippon stepped aside from his role as Editor pending an independent review into his decision to drop the investigation into Savile. The Pollard Review into the incident investigated the decision exhaustively. It concluded Rippon's decision not to air the item was 'flawed' but 'done in good faith' and without undue pressure from his bosses. Rippon disagreed his evidence was 'flawed' setting out his reasons in evidence to the inquiry. In October 2012 the Chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten, when interviewed on Radio 4's ''
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'' about the Savile affair, remarked "Peter Rippon is a very distinguished editor who broke the story about service companies which we've been having to deal with ever since."


References


External links


BBC Editors Blog

Newsnight Editor's Blog
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At a formal dinner
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