Kevin Marsh

Kevin Marsh (born 14 November 1954) is the Editor of the BBC College of Journalism.

He was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, in 1954 to John and Elizabeth Jill Marsh. He attended Doncaster Grammar School from 1966–73 and became Captain of School, as well as Captain of Cricket. He read Classics and English at Christ Church, Oxford and gained an MA in 1978. He also wrote for Isis magazine.

He joined the BBC as a news trainee in 1978. After working in Blackburn, Birmingham and Belfast, he joined the BBC Radio 4 Programme, The World at One - then presented by Sir Robin Day.

In 1986 he joined ITN and returned to the BBC at the beginning of 1988 as Deputy editor of The World at One. In August 1989 he became Editor of PM, moving on three years later to edit The World at One. In 1996, he became joint editor of both The World at One and PM and in 1998, launched the new Sunday morning news programme Broadcasting House, presented by Eddie Mair.

He became editor of the Today programme in November 2002, succeeding Rod Liddle who had resigned the previous September. In May 2003, Today became embroiled in a row with the Government over an early morning claim made by reporter Andrew Gilligan that the Government "probably knew" that one of the key claims made in its September 2002 dossier detailing Iraq's WMD "was wrong". Lord Hutton, in the findings of his subsequent inquiry, criticised the editing procedures on Today despite never having taken evidence from Marsh.

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