Deadline is continuous to bolster its formidable worldwide ranks with the rent of revered trade vet Stewart Clarke, latest Inventive Director of the Edinburgh TV Competition and former worldwide correspondent at Selection.
Clarke is becoming a member of Deadline as SVP, Content material, Worldwide. Based mostly in London, he’ll contribute to editorial and work intently with Deadline’s SVP World Enterprise Improvement & Strategic Partnerships, Celine Rotterman, and Worldwide Options Editor Diana Lodderhose, to assist develop Deadline’s worldwide enterprise alternatives.
Clarke, who begins Monday (Dec 11), will report back to Deadline’s President Ellie Duque and collaborate with the abroad crew, together with Worldwide Editor, Andreas Wiseman, who oversees worldwide editorial.
“Stewart’s distinctive background as a seasoned commerce reporter and achieved pageant govt makes him an ideal addition to Deadline’s formidable worldwide crew,” mentioned Deadline co-editors in chief Nellie Andreeva and Mike Fleming, Jr. “He had been on our want checklist for awhile, and we will’t be happier for him to hitch our bold world enlargement.”
Since 2020, as Inventive Director of the Edinburgh TV Competition, Clarke has labored with an array of broadcasters, producers, streamers, and trade companions to supervise this system and year-round occasions of the high-profile UK TV occasion.
He steered the pageant, the biggest of its form within the UK, by way of two digital years in the course of the pandemic, after which its comeback 12 months as a reside occasion in 2022 and this 12 months’s version. The previous two years have been among the many most profitable within the pageant’s historical past.
The pageant’s signature keynote is the MacTaggart Lecture, which on Clarke’s watch was delivered by David Olusoga, Jack Thorne, Emily Maitlis, and Louis Theroux. Audio system from past the UK booked by
Clarke included John Landgraf, Rob Sharenow, Jennifer Salke, and Pearlena Igbokwe.
Clarke additionally launched the profitable Local weather Content material Summit, held on the Barbican, London, which linked senior producers, commissioners, filmmakers with local weather specialists.
Previous to Edinburgh, Clarke was an Worldwide Correspondent at Selection. Based mostly in London, he reported from Berlin, Cannes and different festivals, breaking quite a few tales within the course of. Earlier than that he
was Editorial Director of Tv Enterprise Worldwide, overlaying the worldwide TV market and talking at and attending occasions around the globe.
“Deadline is a must-read for me and anybody within the movie and TV enterprise and its worldwide protection has gone from energy to energy,” Clarke mentioned. “I can’t wait to get began and symbolize Deadline at occasions and festivals – to file tales, work on new editorial initiatives and occasions, and be a part of the good worldwide crew.”
Deadline’s worldwide crew now contains greater than a dozen workers and contributors. The group has coated greater than 40 worldwide festivals and conferences prior to now 12 months and continues to develop its abroad footprint offering information, evaluation, interviews, evaluations, magazines and studios regarding the worldwide enterprise.
