Richard Sambrook (born 24 April 1956) is the Director of the BBC World Service and Global News, and former Director of BBC News and BBC Sport.
Sambrook was educated at Maidstone Technical High School, at the University of Reading where he received a BA in English and at Birkbeck, University of London where he received an MSc in Politics. His first jobs were as a journalist for various local newspapers in south Wales. In 1980 he joined the BBC as ...
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Richard Sambrook (born 24 April 1956) is the Director of the BBC World Service and Global News, and former Director of BBC News and BBC Sport.
Sambrook was educated at Maidstone Technical High School, at the University of Reading where he received a BA in English and at Birkbeck, University of London where he received an MSc in Politics. His first jobs were as a journalist for various local newspapers in south Wales. In 1980 he joined the BBC as a sub-editor. His career has been almost entirely in daily news, working in both radio and TV. He has been a programme editor, News Editor, and was Head of Newsgathering when the BBC won a number of awards for international news coverage. During this period he merged the radio and TV, and domestic and World Service newsgathering departments to form the world's largest broadcast news operation. He became Acting Director of Sport in 2000 before he was appointed Director of News in 2001.
In June and July 2003, he defended the BBC's story that the...
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