Steve Herrmann is Editor of BBC News Interactive, responsible for the editorial content of the BBC News website, the Ceefax teletext service and the BBC’s on-demand news services including news on mobile phones, interactive TV, broadband video and email. Steve joined the BBC News website in 1997 just after it launched, initially as a newsdesk editor. He subsequently helped develop the specials and in-depth areas of the site and was then News Interactive’s World Editor for five years before being appointed Editor at the start of 2006. He has worked in a variety of journalistic roles, including periods in the Balkans and East Africa, since beginning his BBC career at BBC Monitoring in 1985.