Stephen Graham Mitchell (born 14 July 1949) is a British

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who has been Head of News Programmes,

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, since 2007 and Deputy Director,

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, since 2008. He announced his retirement without payment from the position of Head of BBC news programmes in December 2012 in the wake of the Pollard Report into the Jimmy Savile scandal. He was educated at

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and

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. He began his journalistic career in newspapers, working for ''

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'' 1971–1974, before moving to the BBC, where he worked in

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news.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20090923223905/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/news/stephenmitchell.shtml 1949 births Living people People educated at Loughborough Grammar School Alumni of the University of Manchester BBC executives The Times people British male journalists {{UK-journalist-stub