Background
Peter Barron was born in Belfast and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.
Peter Barron was born in Belfast and educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution.
He spent most of his career at the British Broadcasting Corporation, and immediately prior to his Google appointment in 2008 had for four years been editor of the British Broadcasting Corporation programme Newsnight. Mid-1980s, Luxembourg News Digest
1987 Editor and journalist, Algarve News and Algarve Magazine
1988 British Broadcasting Corporation News trainee
1990 Producer, British Broadcasting Corporation Newsnight
1997 Deputy editor, Channel 4 News, ITN
2002 Deputy editor, Tonight with Trevor McDonald
2003 Editor, British Broadcasting Corporation current affairs
2004 Editor, Newsnight
2006-2007 Advisory chair, Edinburgh International television Festival
2008 Head of comms and public affairs, Google United Kingdom, Benelux and Ireland.
