Peter Rippon

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 BBC Television's current affairs programme Newsnight.

Peter Rippon was born in Henley-on-Thames. He is the son of Robin Rippon and Susan Westcott. He has an older sister and younger brother and sister.

He attended the Gillotts School, a comprehensive school, in Henley on Thames in the South Oxfordshire district of south-eastern Oxfordshire.

He graduated from the University of East Anglia (UEA) with a BA in Philosophy and Politics, and gained an MSc in International Politics. from the University of Southampton.

Rippon joined the BBC in 1989 as a trainee. At Radio 4 he became (concurrently) the Editor of The World At One, PM, iPM, Broadcasting House and The World This Weekend. He has also edited Newshour for the BBC World Service. 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 Google in the UK.

In 2011, it was found by BARB 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 Royal Television Society (2012). It also won Emmy (2009, 2011) and Peabody (2010) awards under his leadership.

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