About Chris Walton

WALTON, CHRIS works for BBC News in London. After 20 years of working on national TV news and current affairs programs as a reporter, output editor and producer, he recently moved into journalism training. He was head of BBC TV News Training in 2004-2005 and now works for the BBC College of Journalism, an internal BBC training institute, on special projects. One of the projects he is currently working on is to develop multi-media training for BBC journalists as the BBC Newsroom - the world's largest - becomes fully multi-media. He is a native of Grimsby, a town in the northeast of England, and graduated with a degree in English from Oxford University. His first job was working for a daily evening newspaper, The Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph as a reporter. After two years there he won a rotary scholarship to the University of Southern California to undertake graduate studies in broadcast journalism. On returning to London he joined the BBC in 1984 where he has been ever since. He has worked all over the world as a producer, reporter and program editor and spent long periods in Northern Ireland at the height of some of the troubles. He enjoys sports, especially soccer and golf.

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