Education
Bakhurst attended Haberdasher"s Aske"s School in Elstree and then Street John"s College, Cambridge where he read French and German.
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Bakhurst attended Haberdasher"s Aske"s School in Elstree and then Street John"s College, Cambridge where he read French and German.
He is the Managing Director of News and Current Affairs and Deputy Director General at the Irish state broadcaster, RTÉ. He was formerly the Controller of the British digital television news channel British Broadcasting Corporation News, a position he held from December 2005 until September 2012. He was also Controller of the British Broadcasting Corporation News at One bulletin and in May 2010, he became Deputy Head of the British Broadcasting Corporation Newsroom.
After a brief spell of working at Price Waterhouse he joined the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1989, first as a researcher, and then as an assistant producer at the British Broadcasting Corporation Business and Economics Unit.
In 1990 he was promoted to become the producer of the British Broadcasting Corporation Nine O"Clock News, where he remained until 1994, when he moved to Brussels to gain further experience for British Broadcasting Corporation News. In 1996, after two years in Brussels, he returned to the United Kingdom to become the assistant editor on the British Broadcasting Corporation Nine O"Clock News, remaining with the program when it became the British Broadcasting Corporation Ten O"Clock News.
From 2001 to 2003 he was an editor at the British Broadcasting Corporation News channel, before being made the acting editor of the British Broadcasting Corporation Ten O"Clock News. He was then confirmed as the permanent editor of the program in March 2004.
lieutenant was announced on 10 July 2012 that Bakhurst would be the new Managing Director of News and Current Affairs at the Irish national public service broadcaster, RTÉ.
