The Athletic‘s Editor-in-Chief for UK and Europe is becoming a member of the BBC to run its sports activities protection.
Reporting into content material boss Charlotte Moore, Alex Kay-Jelski will substitute Barbara Slater within the all-encompassing position, setting the editorial and inventive technique and main groups throughout commissioning, manufacturing, digital and journalism.
Kay-Jelski can even symbolize the BBC with exterior our bodies and rights holders, and be chargeable for rights acquisition offers throughout TV, audio and on-line.
Kay-Jelski has been Editor-in-Chief of the New York Occasions-owned subscription sports activities web site’s UK and Europe arm since 2019, overseeing the location’s progress because it has grown internationally. He was beforehand sports activities editor for UK papers The Occasions and The Each day Mail.
Moore known as him a “dynamic and inventive editorial chief who has a transparent imaginative and prescient about the best way to take BBC Sport into the longer term.”
“He joins us from the extremely revered digital sports activities subscription service The Athletic, the place he has been chargeable for growing and rising the model from scratch within the UK to grow to be a number one power within the trade, and overseeing phenomenal progress,” she added. “Alex has all the time embraced innovation. His editorial judgement and professional information is spectacular and he brings with him a wealth of expertise.”
Kay-Jelski stated: “Like most individuals, so lots of my sporting recollections have been lived with the BBC there to information me by means of and having the possibility to form what that ought to appear to be within the coming years is an excellent problem. I’m emotional leaving The Athletic and all of the fantastic folks there. It means a lot to me and I’m extremely pleased with all of them.”