Nick Higham

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Nicholas Geoffrey Higham (born 1 June 1954) is a British journalist and author, most notably as a correspondent for BBC News. [1]

He was educated at Bradfield College and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he graduated with a degree in English in 1975. [2] He began his career as a freelance journalist between 1978 and 1988, when he joined the BBC as its first Media Correspondent. [1] His role expanded in 1993 to include the arts as well as media, before he became an analyst for BBC News 24 in 2003. [1]

From 2007 he became a wider correspondent for BBC News, [1] and was also the presenter of Meet The Author on the BBC News Channel (as BBC News 24 had been renamed) until January 2016. [1] Higham left the BBC in 2018. [3] He lives in north London.

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