Robert Peston
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Robert Peston is a British journalist, currently the Business Editor for BBC News.
Peston was educated at Highgate Wood School, a state comprehensive school in Crouch End in North London, and graduated from Balliol College at the University of Oxford, working briefly at stockbroker Williams de Broe. He worked for nine years at the Financial Times. In 2000, he became editorial director of online financial analysis service Quest. In 2002 he joined The Sunday Telegraph as City editor and assistant editor. He became associate editor in 2005. In 2005, Peston published Brown's Britain, detailing the rivalry between Gordon Brown and Prime Minister Tony Blair.
In late 2005, it was announced that Peston would succeed Jeff Randall as BBC Business Editor, responsible for business and city comment on the corporation's flagship TV and radio news programmes and BBC News 24, and developing its business reporting across the network.
He is the son of Labour peer and economist Maurice Peston, Baron Peston.
