Peter Stewart

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Peter Stewart.

Peter Stewart is an award-winning broadcaster, radio consultant and author with twenty years’ experience in media, and works in the BBC’s regional tri-media news centre in Kent.

His book ‘Essential Radio Skills’ (2006) has been widely praised by BBC and commercial radio presenters and managers as being the book on how to present and produce a radio show. It's recommended to students on similar courses including those at Bournemouth, Glamorgan and even on the prestigious Australian Film, Television and Radio School.

In 2009, another two books updated by Peter took their place on the bookshelves: the rewritten ‘Essential Radio Journalism’ (formerly ‘Basic Radio Journalism’) will be a companion volume to ERS; and the standard Andrew Boyd text ‘Broadcast Journalism’ for which Peter has contributed the radio chapters. He’s also written a weekly column in industry publication ‘The Radio Magazine’ since 2001, and through the US radio consultant Dan O’Day sells his e-books ‘Find-A-Line’ and (in 2008) ‘1001 Top Talking Topics’.

He has produced a monthly training newsletter for broadcast journalists since July 2004. ‘Useful Stuff’ is read by 7,000 media professionals around the world.

Peter Stewart has been involved in broadcasting in almost all formats both in speech and music radio, and TV. He started on hospital radio and RSLs, then student radio before getting his first professional role presenting news and magazine programmes. He’s hosted music shows, celebrity interview programmes and chart countdowns, and handled phone-ins, competitions and election coverage.

Peter’s been heard on national and local radio, for commercial stations, the BBC and BFBS - and in almost every time slot.

In radio management he’s been group head of news and head of presentation, and in TV has hosted programmes, written scripts and recorded voice-overs.

He was the winner of the award for Best Personality Newsreader at the New York International Radio Awards in 1997 – the category of which he’s been UK Chairman of Judges (2000-06). He’s also judged the Commercial Radio Companies Association Awards, the Student Radio Awards (2006) and the prestigious Sony Radio Awards (2007, 8)

As well as training hundreds of presenters, producers and managers for the BBC’s national and local radio and television stations, Peter’s also coached commercial radio staff in Britain and around the world through BBC Training & Development (where he was a staff trainer for three years); The RadioCentre (formerly The Commercial Radio Companies Association); The Wireless Group; and Skillset (the national training organisation for broadcast, film, video and multimedia).

Away from radio, Peter has a B.A in Communications and a Diploma in Marketing and Advertising, and has studied forensics and psychology.

BBC Journalism and Radio Trainer (April 2004 – Aug 2006) devising and delivering training courses for local and network radio, TV and online staff, in areas such as news writing, interviewing skills, broadcast law, journalism ethics, presentation, voice skills, package making etc. Currently a presenter and producer at BBC Radio Kent / South East Today.  Freelance radio news reader at a range of BBC and commercial stations including Sky News, Virgin Radio and Kiss FM.Head of News - TalkSPORT Group Head of News - Essex Radio Group   Lecturer on media courses at: London City University, Brunel University, Lambeth College, Islington College, London

  College of Communications and at the Student Radio Association’s conference Spring 06 and for the Commercial Radio

  Companies Association.

 Award for Best Local News Anchor for ‘Personality News Presentation’ - 1997British Chairman of Judges for news and presentation formats for the Awards - 2000 – presentCommercial Radio Awards - Judge for the Radio News category - 2002Skillset Open Door Awards – Judge - 2005,6Student Radio Awards - Judge - 2006