Nick Lawrence

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Nick Lawrence
Born
Nick Meir

1966 (age 57–58)
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Broadcast journalist, radio and television presenter
Employer BBC
Notable credit(s) Watchdog
Inside Out (BBC1)
The Politics Show
Rogue Traders
Whistleblower (BBC1)
You and Yours (Radio 4)
Face The Facts (Radio 4)
Website nickmeir.com

Nick Lawrence is the pen name of Nick Meir (born February 1966), a broadcast journalist, radio host, TV presenter, and producer from the United Kingdom. [1] [2] [3] [4] Between 2001 - 2012 he appeared on many BBC and radio current affairs programmes. [5] [6] [7] He reported on Watchdog for three years, where he worked alongside Nicky Campbell, Julia Bradbury, and Paul Heiney (BBC1). [8] [9] He has also reported and produced on a number of other BBC programmes including Inside Out (BBC1), [10] [11] The Politics Show (BBC1), [12] Rogue Traders (BBC1), [8] BBC Breakfast News, Whistleblower (BBC1), You and Yours (Radio 4) and Face The Facts (Radio 4). [13] [14] [15] Nick Meir now works in the private sector as a communication and media consultant. [2] [16]

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Early life

Meir was born and brought up in Halifax, West Yorkshire. He went to the Heath Grammar School. He later attended Bretton Hall College of Education where he also studied a Drama and Theatre Studies course. Meir graduated with a B.A. degree in Arts. [4] He was an English teacher in an upper school for four years in Northamptonshire.

Broadcasting

Meir started out at Northants 96 on the breakfast show in the early 90s, before moving onto presenting the breakfast show at Chiltern FM in Dunstable with Andy Gelder and Sarah Isherwood in 1996, he then hosted BBC Three Counties' breakfast show, from October 2001. It won a Sony Award Silver in 2003 for a feature on homeless people. [17] In 2008, he was a recipient of the EDF Energy East of England Media Awards' title BBC TV East Television Journalist of the Year. [18] In 2014, Meir established A House Called Alice, a consultancy specializing in counsel and communication improvement for companies and executives. [2]

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  1. ↑ Train seats to be made smaller - do they measure up?
  2. 1 2 3 Gorkana Community News: Ex-Waggener Edstrom execs launch agency
  3. ↑ Broadcast journalism and PR cultures are ‘Worlds apart’, says comms pro
  4. 1 2 Nick Meir Personal Profile on LinkedIn
  5. ↑ BBC: Nick Lawrence becomes homeless
  6. ↑ BBC: Monday: First day, first impressions
  7. ↑ Make a date with a minging motor
  8. 1 2 Watchdog: BBC Episode 13, series 21
  9. ↑ "Norwich Evening News: Video: TV producer is inspired to enter first half marathon". Archived from the original on 3 June 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  10. ↑ BBC Inside Out: Parents losing children in 'loaded system
  11. ↑ Inside Out: Luton's Marsh Farm estate £750,000 land sale probed
  12. ↑ BBC One "Politics Show": West Midlands: Industrial dosh...
  13. ↑ WHY ARE WE WAITING? - HOSPITAL BEDS
  14. ↑ BusinessLive: Wrekin Construction's Gem of Tanzania was not all it seemed
  15. ↑ Nick Lawrence investigates the shocking criminal past of some Midlands taxi drivers
  16. ↑ Nick Meir's official website
  17. ↑ Sony Radio Awards 2003: Winners
  18. ↑ HTFP: See the winners celebrate at the EDF Energy East of England Media Awards
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