BBC World News

James Montgomery has been appointed as Director of Digital Content for BBC World News, taking responsibility for leading the editorial development of the BBC’s commercially funded news website available outside of the UK.

He will take up his post in late May.  He is currently the Editor of the financial news site FT.com and Assistant Editor of the Financial Times newspaper.

In addition to leading editorial development for the international news, sports and weather sites, he will also lead the development of cross-platform commercial content for BBC World News.

The BBC’s international news website is operated by the BBC Global News Division – which contains BBC World Service, BBC World News, BBC Monitoring and the BBC World Service Trust - BBC’s international charity arm.  He will be a member of the BBC World News board, reporting to BBC World News Director Sian Kevill.

“We have the world’s largest international broadcast news website* with a global reputation for authority, innovation and distinctiveness. James Montgomery’s award-winning record for merging high quality editorial, technical development and design flair with commercial success will help us improve our service to international audiences and maximise revenues,” says BBC World News Director Sian Kevill.

James Montgomery has been with the Financial Times since 1997. He became Editor of FT.com in 2006 having previously been the Financial Times’ US News Editor.

BBC.com is the online expression of the BBC.co.uk outside of the UK, covering news and non-news content, and is run by BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC.  In November 2007 the site introduced advertising outside of the UK to an audience of 29* million unique users generating revenues to reinvest in BBC content and services.*Source: comScore – Q1  2009