Lewis Vaughan Jones

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Lewis Vaughan Jones (born 1981 [1] ) is a Welsh journalist and television news presenter, working at BBC News.

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Background

Vaughan Jones attended Stanwell School in Glamorgan, Wales. [2] He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College of Oxford University. [3]

Career

Vaughan Jones began his career at the Welsh Government.

He began working in television at ITV Wales in 2005. He then worked at ITN as a journalist covering a range of issues. He became an acting health correspondent at ITV News in 2014. [4] However, by April 2015, Vaughan Jones was a political correspondent at ITV News. [5]

As of 2017, Vaughan Jones was an occasional presenter of ITV News bulletins. As of 2018, Vaughan Jones was a newsreader at ITN and the BBC. [6] By April 2019, he worked at BBC News only, presenting on both the BBC News and BBC World News channels. [7]

Vaughan Jones still appears regularly on BBC News as a news presenter.

Personal life

Vaughan Jones began wearing a hearing aid on air in 2018, after suddenly becoming unable to hear through his left ear, following him suffering from the common cold. [6] He now has an implant, to help with hearing, in his skull. [8]

Vaughan Jones is married to Hannah Vaughan Jones, [9] a former news presenter and journalist at CNN International and Sky News. They have one son conceived through IVF. [10] [11]

References

  1. ↑ "Support for hearing-aid wearing newsreader". BBC News. Retrieved 2024-12-31.
  2. ↑ Lewis Vaughan Jones (2016-06-30). Lewis Vaughan Jones Speech - Stanwell School Annual Prize-giving . Retrieved 2024-12-31– via YouTube.
  3. ↑ Kenwright, Lyndsay (2018-08-27). "Lewis Vaughan Jones". RiverTribe. Retrieved 2024-12-31.
  4. ↑ "Lewis Vaughan Jones - ITV News political correspondent". www.performingartistes.co.uk. Retrieved 2024-12-31.
  5. ↑ "Bennett: Green Party wants to see 'end of politics as usual' - ITV News". ITV News. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  6. 1 2 "Newsreader Lewis Vaughan Jones makes debut wearing hearing aid". BBC News. 2018-07-21. Retrieved 2024-12-31.
  7. ↑ Khalifa, Ahmed (2019-04-18). "'Adjusting to a Sudden Hearing Loss as TV News Presenter' with Lewis Vaughan Jones". Hear Me Out! [CC]. Retrieved 2024-12-31.
  8. ↑ Vaughan Jones, Lewis. "Lewis Vaughan Jones (@LVaughanJones) / X". X. Retrieved 31 December 2024.
  9. ↑ "'Last embryo' baby boy born after 15 rounds of IVF". BBC News. 2019-12-31. Retrieved 2024-12-31.
  10. ↑ Hannah and Lewis Vaughan Jones on the 'magic' of becoming parents after 15 rounds of IVF, Itv, 3 August 2022
  11. ↑ "CNN presenter Hannah Vaughan Jones announces she's pregnant after five years and 15 rounds of IVF". HELLO!. 2019-06-26. Retrieved 2019-07-09.


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