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Peter John Gibson Horrocks〔(THE BBC WORLD SERVICE TRUST :: OpenCharities )〕 (born 8 October 1959) is Director of the BBC World Service. He became Vice-Chancellor (chief executive) of The Open University in May 2015. He was educated at the independent King's College School in Wimbledon and at Christ's College, Cambridge. ==BBC== Horrocks joined the BBC in October 1981 as a news trainee. He went on to work at ''Newsnight'' as an assistant producer and then producer. After time as a senior producer, intake editor and output editor on ''Breakfast Time'', he became deputy editor of ''Panorama'' in 1988. Horrocks edited BBC television's General Election results coverage in 1992. He edited the coverage of the Budget, by-elections and local elections, as well as the 1994 European Election results and General Election results programmes in May 1997. In May 1992, Horrocks was appointed editor of BBC Two's social affairs programme, ''Public Eye'', a position he held until he launched ''Here And Now'', a current affairs magazine intended to capture high audience figures, in January 1994. He became editor of ''Newsnight'' in April 1994, and editor of ''Panorama'' in December 1997. Horrocks became Head of Current Affairs in June 2000. He was executive producer of ''Brits'', ''True Spies'', ''Smallpox 2002'', ''The Day Britain Stopped'', ''Dirty War'' and of the documentary trilogy The Power of Nightmares. Horrocks won Bafta awards in 1997 and 2005 for his editorship of ''Newsnight'' and for ''The Power of Nightmares''. He became Head of Television News in September 2005. In November 2007, following a restructuring of BBC News, he became Head of the BBC newsroom.〔(The Editors - Peter Horrocks ) BBC News〕 As Head of Diversity when Barack Obama became US President in 2008, Horrocks only belatedly realised the coverage needed to be presented by an ethnically mixed group. He later admitted that 'with hindsight' he would have ensured a more culturally representative team. In April 2009, he replaced Nigel Chapman at BBC World Service and has been responsible for the overall editorial leadership and management of the world's leading international multimedia broadcaster since then.〔(Peter Horrocks appointed new BBC World Service Director ) BBC Press Release〕 He is the chairman of the BBC Media Action Board of Trustees (Previously called the BBC World Service Trust).〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaaction/about/how_we_are_governed〕 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「Peter Horrocks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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