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BBC appoints Rachel Jupp as editor of Panorama

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By Jessica Goodfellow, Media Reporter

September 8, 2016 | 3 min read

The BBC has promoted Rachel Jupp, former deputy editor of Newsnight to editor of BBC1 show Panorama.

Rachel Jupp

Rachel Jupp

Jupp will take up the role with immediate effect following an “open competition” call to fill the position. She replaces Ceri Thomas, who announced in June he was departing the public broadcaster after 24 years to become director of communications and public affairs at Oxford University.

Jupp joined the public broadcaster in 2013 from Channel 4 News, where she was home news editor. She becomes the second woman to edit Panorama in its 63-year history, the Guardian reports. The first was Glenwyn Benson, who ran the programme for three years between 1992 - 1995.

A new deputy editor for Newsnight will be appointed “in due course”, the BBC said.

Jupp said: "I'm incredibly excited to be joining the country’s most important investigative Current Affairs programme, at a time when good journalism has never been more necessary. I’ve watched and loved Panorama all my adult life, with its impressive record of breaking big stories. I’m looking forward to working with the hugely talented team to continue and to build on that record.

James Harding, director of BBC News and Current Affairs, said: "Since joining the BBC from Channel 4 three years ago, Rachel has proved to be an outstanding deputy editor of Newsnight bringing investigations, insight and great film-making to the programme.

"She is a determined, thoughtful and courageous editor who I know will ensure that Panorama remains the pre-eminent place on British television for investigations and revelatory story-telling."

Joanna Carr, head of current affairs, added: "Panorama is the biggest beast in the Current Affairs jungle, and I’m delighted that we have appointed a journalist of Rachel’s calibre to this important position."

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