Nick Garnett

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Nick Garnett (born October 1964, Liverpool) is an English journalist and broadcaster with the British Broadcasting Corporation. He works for the broadcaster's national TV news bulletins, the BBC News Channel, network radio stations and the BBC News website.

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Biography

Garnett grew up in Liverpool, England. He worked at a number of local radio stations before joining BBC Radio 5 Live in 1994. In 2020 he became one of the BBC's North of England Reporters.

In 1998 he was one of the first field reporters at the BBC to be issued with a Nera M4 Satellite in 1998 which enabled him to operate as a single-person radio broadcaster. His work during the British General Election of 2010 was reviewed in The Daily Telegraph . [1]

He has written about his life as a reporter working overseas as he travelled from Nepal to Tunisia and Eastern Europe in 2015. [2]

In recent years he has moved from using traditional audio recorders to using an iPhone to record, mix and send material from the field to his radio station: known as Mobile journalism. He was one of the first broadcasters to use a live streaming camera application to broadcast live TV pictures for broadcast on the BBC News Channel from an iPhone. [3]

He has reported on court cases including that of the nurse Lucy Letby [4] and Brian Buckle who spent five and a half years in prison for crimes he didn't commit. [5] In June 2024 he covered the disappearance of Jay Slater in Tenerife on TV [6] and the BBC website. [7]

References

  1. ↑ TV and Radio (11 May 2010). "Radio review: A Sinatra-singing mayor lights up 5 Live's election night". Telegraph. Retrieved 17 February 2012.
  2. ↑ TV and Radio (25 December 2015). "Nick Garnett: Reporting Inside the Story". BBC. Retrieved 25 July 2024.
  3. ↑ "BBC News Channel conducts live video interview over smartphone, goes where satellites can't (update with video)". Engadget. 27 September 2012.
  4. ↑ "Nurse Lucy Letby guilty of murdering seven babies". BBC. 18 August 2023.
  5. ↑ "I was innocent - but it cost me £500,000 to prove it". BBC. 6 October 2023.
  6. ↑ "The mountainous landscape where Jay Slater vanished". BBC. 29 June 2024.
  7. ↑ "Jay Slater search scoured caves, ravines and cliffs". BBC. 30 June 2024.


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