Robert James Kenneth Peston is an English journalist, presenter, and author. He is the political editor of ITV News and host of the weekly political discussion show Peston. From 2006 until 2014, he was the business editor of BBC News and its economics editor from 2014 to 2015. He became known to the wider public with his reporting on the late 2000s financial crisis, especially with his exclusive information on the Northern Rock crisis. He is the founder of the education charity Speakers for Schools.
Peston in February 2014
Peston with a film crew at the 2016 Labour Party Conference
Peston reporting for the BBC, 2009
Peston in June 2007
ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British news television channel of ITV. ITV has a long tradition of television news. Independent Television News (ITN) was founded to provide news bulletins for the network in 1955, and has since continued to produce all news programmes on ITV. The channel's news coverage has won awards from the Royal Television Society, Emmy Awards and BAFTAs. Between 2004 and 2008, the ITV Evening News held the title of "RTS News Programme of the Year". The flagship ITV News at Ten has won numerous BAFTA awards, and also being named "RTS News Programme of the Year" in 2011, 2015, 2021 and 2022.
The original ITN logo, as used between 22 September 1955 to 15 November 1969
An example of the standing-up presentation discontinued from 2009 – Geraint Vincent presenting an edition of the ITV Evening News in late 2008
The clockface appearing in the News at Ten titles from January 2008 to November 2009. Other bulletins used a stylised image
