Hywel Griffith

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Hywel Griffith
Born
Wales
Education Cardigan Secondary School
Alma mater University of Bristol
University of Cambridge
Occupation News presenter
Employer BBC

Hywel Griffith is a Welsh television news correspondent with the BBC Wales.

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Personal life

Griffith was born and raised in Wales. He read history at Bristol University, graduating in 1999, before taking a master's degree in medieval history at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated in 2000. [1]

Griffith has the skin condition vitiligo. [2]

Career

Griffith began his journalistic career as a graduate trainee with the BBC in 2000. He took a placement with the BBC Wales Cardiff newsroom as Wales Health Correspondent in 2005 before subsequently becoming Wales Correspondent in 2012 to cover new stories. In 2016, he was appointed BBC news correspondent for Australia and New Zealand [3] at its base in Sydney before carrying out reporting assignments across Europe, the USA and the Caribbean. He returned to BBC Wales in 2019. [4]

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References

  1. "Hywel Griffith - Profile at Linkedin". Linkedin. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  2. @hywel_griffith (10 May 2020). "Thanks Jo, its vitiligo" (Tweet) via Twitter.
  3. "BBC Wales correspondent moves to Australia, 12 August 2016". Response Source. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
  4. "Hywel Griffith returns to Wales, 27 September 2019". Response Resource. Retrieved 11 May 2020.