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Editor, ´óÏó´«Ã½ London 2012, Online

Mark Coyle is Editor, ´óÏó´«Ã½ London 2012, Online.

He is in charge of the team which runs bbc.co.uk/2012, the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s home of London 2012 content. The team also produces and manages Olympic torch relay and Festival 2012 content online.

Mark's role includes co-ordinating the editorial development of the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s non-sport coverage of 2012 across all platforms.

Before joining the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s central London 2012 team, he was Launch Editor of the award-winning ´óÏó´«Ã½ Democracy Live site (bbc.co.uk/democracylive) which provides live and on-demand video coverage of all the UK's national political institutions and the European Parliament.

His ´óÏó´«Ã½ career stretches back to 1993, when he joined Radio Cumbria in Carlisle, later becoming Assistant Editor there.

He had a short spell at Radio 5 Live before becoming one of the launch editors of ´óÏó´«Ã½ News Online in August 1997.

Two years later, Mark moved to Glasgow to manage the launch of the Scotland section of the website and to oversee similar launches in Northern Ireland and Wales.

In March 2001, he headed the project to establish 12 teams of online journalists across the English Regions.

He returned to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland in 2003, taking on the part-time role of leading the editorial development of News Interactive teams in the Nations & Regions.

Between then and the Democracy Live project, he played a large part in the development of multiplatform working at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scotland and beyond.

Born in Aberdeen in 1965, Mark was educated in Newtonhill and Stonehaven, where he attended Mackie Academy.