New Sports Editor for BBC Sport Online
Alex
Gubbay has been appointed in the role of Sports Editor for the BBC
Sport website (www.bbc.co.uk/sport).
Alex, at 25 years old, is one of BBC Sport's youngest editors.
A former
editor of the award winning Leeds Student Newspaper, Alex started
freelancing for Ceefax Sport in 1996 and joined the BBC full-time
in July 1999.
He
moved to Sport Online when it was created in May 2000 and was appointed
a general editor in September 2001.
Alex
was the BBC Sport website's correspondent at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
He
also took a leading role in the site's output for the big summer
of sport on the BBC, revolving around the hugely successful sites
for the World Cup, Wimbledon, The Open and the Commonwealth Games.
He
said: "The BBC Sport website is now the first stop for sports
fans on the internet.
"The
challenge now is to build on our fantastic progress over the last
two years, and to help make the BBC's approach to breaking sports
news and covering big events as interactive and innovative as possible."
Howard
Nurse, currently Football Output Editor, has been appointed Deputy
Sports Editor but will retain overall control of football output.
Both
Howard and Alex will report to Ben Gallop, Editor of Sport Interactive.
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