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Gavin Hewitt (born March 1951, Penge, London) is a British journalist and presenter, currently BBC News's News Editor. He was formerly its Europe Editor, a post he held between September 2009 to the autumn of 2014, and became News Editor to cover a wider brief. ==Life and career== Hewitt was educated at the independent school St John's School in Leatherhead, Surrey and St John's College, University of Durham where he reported for a live student programme on BBC Radio Durham entitled ''University Termtime''.〔( Durham University - Durham First ) Retrieved 23 March 2013〕 Prior to his work at the BBC, he lived in Canada and worked as a correspondent for Canadian television. Hewitt joined the BBC's ''Panorama'' as a presenter in 1984 and was in East Berlin when the Berlin Wall came down. He conducted the first British television interview with Oliver North after the Iran Contra scandal, and later wrote a book about the hostage crisis in the Lebanon. While working at ''Panorama'', Hewitt made "The Case Of India One" which led to an investigation into police corruption. He also made the film "Escape From Tiananmen", which broke the story of Operation Yellow Bird - the underground network used to smuggle student leaders and others out of China. He has been the BBC's Washington Correspondent on several occasions, and has made three films about President Bill Clinton, including ''All The President's Women'', and ''The Shaming Of The President''. In 2003 he was one of three reporters to use David Kelly as a source for the BBC story claiming that the British Government had "sexed up" a dossier describing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. He later gave evidence on the affair to the Hutton Inquiry. In 2008 Hewitt covered the United States Presidential Election primaries and Democratic Nominee for President Barack Obama's visit to the Middle East and Europe in the summer of 2008. Hewitt also covered Barack Obama's campaign for President during the autumn of that year, broadcasting from Grant Park when Obama was elected the first African American President of the United States on Tuesday 4 November 2008 working with Senior Producer Ian Sherwood and Picture Correspondent Rob Magee He then also covered Obama's Inauguration on 20 January 2009. During the War in Georgia in August 2008 Hewitt and producer and cameraman came under fire from a Russian fighter plane whilst covering the War on the front line. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gavin Hewitt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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