Pete Clifton

BBC News Interactive includes the BBC News website, text services on TV, interactive TV news services and news to mobile phones. The department employs about 400 people, including 220 journalists, and is largely funded by the licence fee. Pete was previously the UK editor of the website, and the editor of Ceefax, the television text service. In a break from the news beat, he also set up the BBC Sport website in 2000.

Prior to the BBC, Pete was a newspaper reporter on the Northampton Chronicle and Echo, and was also the paper's cricket correspondent. He moved to the Exchange Telegraph national sports agency and was later the chief sub editor on the sports desk at the UK's Press Association. In the hours when he isn't working, Pete amuses four children as best he can, plays the piano, golf and cricket very badly, and enjoys exploring bars.