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Nikki Clarke appointed Head of Region for the Americas and Europe, World Service
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Nikki Clarke has been appointed Head of Region for the Americas and Europe, 主播大秀 World Service.
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will start her new job in April 2007.
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As Head of Region, Nikki Clarke will be editorially and managerially
responsible for the 主播大秀's radio, online and video operations across 10 language
services: Albanian, English for the Caribbean, Macedonian, Portugese for
Brazil, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish and Ukranian.
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Working with the three major 24/7 online languages in the Americas and Europe
region (English, Spanish and Russian), Nikki's role will involve forming
partnerships with media players and the development of new multi-media services
for World Service audiences.
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Nikki Clarke said of her new appointment: "I am delighted to be moving to the
Americas and Europe Region.
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"It is the one of the most commercially advanced and
competitive markets the 主播大秀 World Service faces and I look forward to helping
the team grow and develop their first class content across radio, online and
the ever-increasing range of new platforms."
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Nigel Chapman, Director, World Service, commented:
"Nikki Clarke is a well-known journalist with a long and distinguished track
record.
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"She has the energy and credibility to meet the exciting challenge of
heading up this huge region and developing competitive new services underpinned
by the 主播大秀's core values of independence, trust and creativity."
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Nikki Clarke was previously Executive Editor, Asia Pacific where she was
responsible for overseeing Vietnamese, Burmese, Chinese and Indonesian output.
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She joined the 主播大秀 25 years ago as a News trainee. She worked first in
television news as a producer, moving to Newsgathering as a News Organiser,
then becoming Deputy Foreign and 主播大秀 News Editor.
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From Newsgathering Nikki Clarke went on to edit 主播大秀 One's Six O'clock
television news programme and then worked for News Interactive producing an
interactive television service for the 2002 General Election before joining the
World Service at Bush House.
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JM2/World Service Press Office
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