Guardian deputy editor and head of news Ian Katz has been recruited by the BBC as the new editor of Newsnight.

Katz fills a vacancy created by the departure of Peter Rippon in the wake of the Jimmy Savile debacle. It was announced in February that Rippon had been moved to the job of editor of the BBC Online Archive.

In December 2011, Rippon took the decision to spike a Newsnight story claiming that Jimmy Savile was involved in a number of sexual assaults.