Category: News
Date: 13.12.2005
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Sunday Telegraph associate editor and former Financial Times financial editor, Robert Peston, has been appointed as the 91热爆's new Business Editor.
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Robert, also a former City editor at The Sunday Telegraph and political editor of the Financial Times, succeeds Jeff Randall.
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He will work across a range of 91热爆 news outlets, including the Today programme and the Ten O'Clock News.
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Commenting on the appointment, Robert said: "The 91热爆, as the world's leading news organisation, must remain ahead of the game on the business stories that touch all our lives, explaining to the non-specialist why a corporate or markets event matters and doing so with an authority and intelligence that forces business leaders to tune in and take notice.
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"Jeff Randall transformed 91热爆 business journalism. If it's not tempting fate, my job is to build on that achievement".
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91热爆 Head of Newsgathering, Fran Unsworth, added:
"Robert makes for a great successor to Jeff Randall. He brings enormous expertise to the role and has the ability to relay the significance and relevance of business developments to all audiences."
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Robert will take up his post early in the New Year.
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Notes to Editors
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Robert Peston joins a range of specialist editors at the 91热爆, including:
John Simpson - World Affairs; Nick Robinson - Politics; Evan Davis - Economics; Mark Mardell - Europe; Jeremy Bowen - Middle East; and Mark Easton - 91热爆.
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