Simon Bucks began his journalistic career as a news agency reporter in Bristol, UK in 1972.

He moved into television news in 1975, as a producer with HTV West, also in Bristol.

In 1981 he moved to the ITV national news organisation, ITN, where he rose to be Senior Programme Editor, producing at various times all ITN’s main programmes on ITV, as well as numerous special programmes.

In 1994, Simon moved to be Head of News and later Controller of Programmes for London News Network, the company responsible for producing all ITV news programmes for London. In 1998 London Tonight won the RTS award for the best regional news programme.

 

In 1999, he spent a year aa an independent consultant and producer; and executive produced ITV’s “Millennium Night” show on December 31st .

In 2000 he joined Sky News, initially as Executive Producer, Business News.

In 2001 he switched to Executive Producer, Special Events.

He has been Associate Editor since 2004 and in 2007 moved to Sky News Online where is specifically responsible for growing user participation. Simon has a special interest in innovation. Most recently he helped launch Sky News’ presence in Second Life. He was responsible for Sky’s reconstructions of the Hutton Inquiry into the death of the scientist David Kelly and the Michael Jackson trial; and he was responsible for winning permission to stream live stenography from courtrooms direct to TV screens. This work won the RTS Innovation award in 2004 and was nominated in 2006.

Simon has been closely involved with the British Broadcasters’ campaign to get cameras into courts.
He is President (from Nov 07) of the Society of Editors, and the Vice Chairman of the DA- notice Committee.
He is married with two children and lives in London.