Writer, producer and publisher Will Gompertz is to join the BBC in the newly created position of arts editor.

Gompertz, who has been working in the arts industry since he was 18, is currently the director of Tate Media at the Tate, as well as being the editor in chief of arts website Culturecritic.co.uk.

He is known both in the UK, from his work for publications such as the Times and the Guardian, and internationally, where New York’s Creativity Magazine recently voted him one of the world’s top creative thinkers.

Gompertz is expected to start his new role within the next couple of months.
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