Peter John Gibson Horrocks Net Worth is $9 Million
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Peter John Gibson Horrocks (born 28 October 1959) is Director of the BBC World Service. He was educated at the independent King's College School in Wimbledon and at Christ's College, Cambridge.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.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. He is the chairman of the BBC Media Action Board of Trustees (Previously called the BBC World Service Trust).
He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2015 Queen's Birthday Honours List for his services to Broadcasting. He was the director for BBC World Service Group and lives in Bedfordshire, England.
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Derailed
2005
TV Movie executive producer
The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear
2004
TV Mini-Series documentary executive producer - 3 episodes