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'''Iain Overton''' is a British documentary maker born on 3 August, 1973. In September 2009 he was appointed the first managing editor of the [[Bureau of Investigative Journalism]].<ref> |
'''Iain Overton''' is a British documentary maker born on 3 August, 1973. In September 2009 he was appointed the first managing editor of the [[Bureau of Investigative Journalism]].<ref name=Guard2009Sep21/> |
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In 2010/2011, under his editorship, the Bureau won an Amnesty Award,<ref> |
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</ref> for its reporting. In November 2012, Overton alleged that a report researched jointly by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the BBC TV programme 'Newsnight' proved that a senior British politician was 'a paedophile', a claim subsequently shown to be false. The scandal over the report's inaccuracy led to the resignation of the BBC Director General, [[George Entwistle]]. <ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/10/bbc-newsnight-crisis-live</ref> |
</ref> for its reporting. In November 2012, Overton alleged that a report researched jointly by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the BBC TV programme 'Newsnight' proved that a senior British politician was 'a paedophile', a claim subsequently shown to be false. The scandal over the report's inaccuracy led to the resignation of the BBC Director General, [[George Entwistle]]. <ref>http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/10/bbc-newsnight-crisis-live</ref> |
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==Early and personl life== |
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Educated at [[Downing College, Cambridge]], from 1997-1998 he took an MPhil in International Relations at [[Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge]].<ref name=LinkedIn>http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/iain-overton/1/470/b86</ref> |
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==Career== |
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In September 1998 he was appointed a Senior Producer at BBC Current Affairs. In August 2005 he was appointed an Executive Producer at ITN.<ref name=LinkedIn/> |
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Revision as of 12:26, 12 November 2012
Iain Overton is a British documentary maker born on 3 August, 1973. In September 2009 he was appointed the first managing editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.[1] In 2010/2011, under his editorship, the Bureau won an Amnesty Award,[2] a Thomson Reuters Award[3][4] and was shortlisted for an IRE award[5][6] for its reporting. In November 2012, Overton alleged that a report researched jointly by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the BBC TV programme 'Newsnight' proved that a senior British politician was 'a paedophile', a claim subsequently shown to be false. The scandal over the report's inaccuracy led to the resignation of the BBC Director General, George Entwistle. [7]
Early and personl life
Educated at Downing College, Cambridge, from 1997-1998 he took an MPhil in International Relations at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge.[8]
Career
In September 1998 he was appointed a Senior Producer at BBC Current Affairs. In August 2005 he was appointed an Executive Producer at ITN.[8]
In 2004 he won a Scottish BAFTA for the exposé Security Wars,[9] a BBC film highlighting corruption in the security industry in Scotland.[10] In 2005 he won a Peabody Award for a BBC report on counterfeiting in the pharmaceutical industry.[11][12] In that year he was also a producer on the series that won, with reporter Simon Reeve, a One World Award for best popular feature for the series Places that Don't Exist for the BBC.[13]
In 2006 he was voted best Broadcast Journalist by the UK bar council for a news report on the proposed changes to the coroners’ system, which would have made coroners’ investigations into deaths abroad discretionary rather than compulsory.[14] In 2009 he was shortlisted for a One World award for an expose on child trafficking in India.[15]
In the same year he produced/directed a one hour film Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo - an Alice in Wonderland foray into the modernist architecture of Tokyo. It premiered at Asia House in March 2009 and was shown at a special screening at the Barbican in December 2010.[16][17]
In September 2009 he was appointed the first managing editor of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.[1] In this role he has overseen a number of investigations, including the Wikileak's Iraq War Logs.[18]
BBC Newsnight child abuse investigation
On 2 November 2012, Overton alleged on Twitter that a joint report by the Bureau and the BBC, to be broadcast on the BBC programme 'Newsnight', had unmasked a senior Conservative politician as a paedophile who had sexually abused children in the North Wales child abuse scandal. His Tweet read, "If all goes well, we've got a Newsnight out tonight about a very senior political figure who is a paedophile." [19]The Newsnight broadcast, made later that day, made such an allegation against an un-named politician, who was widely identified on the internet as the former Conservative Party Treasurer Lord McAlpine.[20] Lord McAlpine issued a statement strongly denying the accusations. [21]This allegation was subsequently admitted by the BBC to be false.[22]
The broadcasting of the false claim led to the resignation of George Entwistle as Director-General of the BBC on 10 November 2012.[23] Lord Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust, described the report as “unacceptable shoddy journalism”.[24] Before his resignation, Entwistle announced that the BBC had suspended all investigations undertaken with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. [25]
Overton on the 12th of November 2012 has resigned from his position from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism. Overton withdrew his original tweet.[26]
References
- ^ a b Greenslade, Roy (2009-09-21). "ITN's Overton to be investigative bureau's managing editor". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Amnesty announces 2011 Media Awards winners". Amnesty International. 2011-05-24. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Winner Announced". The University Association for Contemporary European Studies. 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Bureau wins the Thomson Reuters Reporting Europe award". Bureau of Investigative Journalism. 2011-06-01. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Honoring the best in investigative journalism". Investigative Reporters and Editors. 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Bureau nominated for IRE award". Bureau of Investigative Journalism. 2011-06-23. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/10/bbc-newsnight-crisis-live
- ^ a b http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/iain-overton/1/470/b86
- ^ Cowie, Eleanor (2004-11-15). "Scotland joins the world of screen glamour Wind and rain cannot stop the stars coming out in Glasgow". Herald Scotland. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Frontline Scotland". BBC News Online. 2004-05-25. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Bad Medicine". BBC Two. 2005-07-12. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "This World: Bad Medicine". The Peabody Awards. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Awards 2005". One World Media. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Bar Council Launches 2007 Legal Reporting Awards". General Council of the Bar. 2007-09-06. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Shortlist 2009". One World Media. 2010. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "Georgia Hanias". Ballou PR. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ "december 2010" (PDF). The Barbican Centre. p. 7. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ Oliver, Laura (2010-10-28). "The bureau, the whistleblower and the data journalist: how WikiLeaks' Iraq war logs made the news". Journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 2011-08-28.
- ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226833/Jimmy-Savile-scandal-Newsnight-claims-leading-politician-Thatcher-years-centre-widespread-paedophile-ring.html
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/10/bbc-newsnight-crisis-live
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/9666439/Lord-McAlpine-responds-statement-in-full.html
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/nov/10/bbc-newsnight-crisis-live
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9669681/George-Entwistle-quits-as-director-general-over-Newsnight-fiasco.html
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9669681/George-Entwistle-quits-as-director-general-over-Newsnight-fiasco.html
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9669681/George-Entwistle-quits-as-director-general-over-Newsnight-fiasco.htmlA
- ^ https://twitter.com/iainoverton
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