Deadline is constant 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 Growth & 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 group, together with Worldwide Editor, Andreas Wiseman, who oversees worldwide editorial.
“Stewart’s distinctive background as a seasoned commerce reporter and completed competition government makes him an ideal addition to Deadline’s formidable worldwide group,” 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 affix our formidable international 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 competition, the biggest of its form within the UK, via two digital years through the pandemic, after which its comeback yr as a dwell occasion in 2022 and this yr’s version. The previous two years have been among the many most profitable within the competition’s historical past.
The competition’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 consultants.
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, protecting 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 power to power,” Clarke mentioned. “I can’t wait to get began and signify Deadline at occasions and festivals – to file tales, work on new editorial initiatives and occasions, and be a part of the sensible worldwide group.”
Deadline’s worldwide group now contains greater than a dozen employees and contributors. The group has lined greater than 40 worldwide festivals and conferences prior to now 12 months and continues to develop its abroad footprint offering information, evaluation, interviews, opinions, magazines and studios referring to the worldwide enterprise.
