abstract:Stephen Graham Mitchell (born 14 July 1949) is a British journalist who has been Head of News Programmes, BBC, since 2007 and Deputy Director, BBC News, since 2008. He announced his retirement without payment from the position of Head of BBC news programmes in December 2012 in the wake of the Pollard Report into the Jimmy Savile scandal.
The deputy director of news StephenMitchell is criticised for removing the Savile investigation from a list of the BBC's potentially difficult programmes.
On Monday, the BBC's director of News Helen Boaden and her deputy StephenMitchell "stepped aside" from their roles, pending Nick Pollard's report into the management of Newsnight's report into allegations of sexual abuse by the late TV presenter and radio DJ Jimmy Savile, which was dropped.