Jupp upped

Interim BBC News boss Jonathan Munro has turned to Rachel Jupp to fill the new role of Director of Mistake Avoidance, aka Director, News Documentaries and Long Form Journalism. 

Rachel worked at ITN from 2007 to 2013, joining Newsnight under Ian Katz in July 2013.  Jonathan Munro left ITN in December 2013, after 26 years. 

Rachel, 48, (Orleans Park School, Richmond upon Thames College, BA Social and Political Sciences, King's College Cambridge, MA Public Administration, Columbia University) first worked as a researcher for Demos, alongside brother Ben, Stella Creasy and Danny Kruger. Then, while studying in Washington, parlayed her way into ITN as an intern on the 2004 election. That led to a full-time job with Channel 4 News on her return to London. She rose to be head of home news News on the programme. 

At Newsnight, with the help of Buzzfeed, she produced reports on Kids Company, beloved of Alan Yentob. After three years she moved to edit Panorama. Her time there was not without controversy. "Is Labour Anti-Semitic ?" by John Ware needed one public correction for editing; but eventually won an apology from the Labour Party who had to withdraw allegations against Ware and some of his interviewees. In another programme, Panorama had to apologise for mistakenly reporting that type 1 diabetes is "the type you're born with". 

After Panorama, Rachel worked at the side of Content boss Charlotte Moore, and authored a report which paved the way for the failed attempt to close down the BBC Singers. Rachel's berth was then handed to Jess Brammar, and the BBC announced Rachel was “taking time out to move to Washington DC with her family”. It's from there that she's been able to perform as Editorial Executive on the BBC’s Generative AI team. 

Rachel and husband Jonathan were back in London last year for a Christmas Day dip in one of Hampstead Heath's ponds, snapped by the Camden New Journal.