Nikki Fox

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Nikki Fox
Born (1980-03-03) 3 March 1980 (age 44)
Hillingdon, Middlesex, England
Alma mater Brunel University
Occupation(s)Presenter, journalist
Employer BBC

Nikki Fox (born 3 March 1980 [1] ) is an English broadcaster, presenter and documentary maker. She is a Sony Award-winning journalist who presents for television and network radio. Fox appeared on various TV and Radio shows including Watchdog, The One Show, How to Look Good Naked, and Rip-Off Britain. [2] She is one of the first female disabled TV presenters in the world and has been voted one of the most influential disabled people in the UK. [3]

Fox was born with muscular dystrophy and has used a wheelchair for the majority of her adult life. [4]

Career

Nikki Fox has a B.A. (Hons) in music from Brunel University [2] [1] and has studied theory, piano, opera, composition, analysis and criticism of 20th-century music.

She began working at BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on the Peterborough Breakfast Show, presenting Fox's What's On Guide, as well as competitions and she then won a place on a Channel 4 Disability Researcher Training Scheme and started working at Maverick TV, Channel 4 and ITV. [5] In 2010, Nikki was a researcher and co-presenter on Gok Wan's How to Look Good Naked with a Disability , a Channel 4 show. [6]

She has been nominated for Best On Screen talent at the Cultural Diversity Network Awards in 2010. Fox researched and presented a major documentary for BBC Radio 5 Live, Beyond Disability: The Adventures of a Blue Badger where she set out to discover what it is really like being disabled in the UK in 2012. It won a Sony accolade and the 2012 New York Festivals Radio Programme and Promotion Awards. [2]

In June 2014 she was appointed disability news correspondent for the BBC. [7] Fox said: "I am beyond excited to be joining BBC News and am thrilled to be able to work as part of a specialist team of journalists, dedicated to the reporting of disability issues for a national audience, in a new and fresh way." [8]

In 2015 she won a New York Festival Radio Award for Learning to Walk Again, a radio programme she presented for BBC Radio 5 Live. [9]

In 2016, she was awarded as Journalist of the Year at the 2016 European Diversity Awards. [2] Also that year she joined the BBC Watchdog team as a presenter [1] and appeared on an episode of BBC's Celebrity Mastermind . [10]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "European Award for alumni journalist | Brunel University London". www.brunel.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
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  4. ↑ "Watch This Woman Take Her First Steps in Ten Years". Time. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  5. ↑ "Nikki Fox". Archived from the original on 29 November 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
  6. ↑ ""Hit Channel 4 Show Focuses on Disability". Muscular Dystrophy News". Archived from the original on 4 January 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  7. ↑ Gil, Natalie (23 April 2014). "BBC News appoints Nikki Fox as disability correspondent". The Guardian– via www.theguardian.com.
  8. ↑ samedifference1 (24 April 2014). "Nikki Fox Appointed As BBC News Disability Correspondent". Same Difference. Retrieved 6 May 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ "New York Festivals - 2015 World's Best Radio Programs™ Winners". www.newyorkfestivals.com. Archived from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  10. ↑ "Episode 8, 2015/2016, Celebrity Mastermind - BBC One". BBC.
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