Justin Webb
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Justin Oliver Webb (born 2 January 1961) is a British journalist and has been the BBC's chief Washington correspondent since 2001.
Webb took up the role of North American Editor for BBC News, a newly created role from December 2007.[1] He replaced Matt Frei who moved to present the new World News America bulletin.
Webb, who was North America correspondent based in Washington from 2001, took on the role in time for the American presidential election which takes place on 2008.
He raised eyebrows within the BBC in 2006 when, at a seminar on impartiality, he claimed the corporation was anti-American and treated the US with "scorn and derision", according it "no moral weight".[2] Webb has also presented a Radio 4 series on anti-Americanism.[3]
Prior to arriving in Washington he was a BBC News presenter based in London and the main presenter on BBC One's Breakfast News programme from 1992 to 1997. He also presented the BBC's One and Six O'Clock News bulletins and presented BBC Radio Four's The World Tonight from 1997-1998
He attended the London School of Economics and was an editor of the student newspaper, The Beaver.
