Robert Nisbet (journalist)

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Robert Nisbet is the Environment Correspondent for Sky News in the UK.

[edit] Career

Robert Nisbet spent several years at the BBC, mainly as a correspondent for BBC News, however also as chief reporter on BBC Choice's entertainment news show Liquid News. It was Nisbet who discovered the body of presenter Christopher Price after he died from a rare brain infection in 2002. Following the end of Liquid News, Nisbet went on to present The Morning Show, a short-lived daytime show on BBC One with the Pop Idol judge Nicki Chapman, in 2003, although this was cancelled after poor viewing figures.

Robert then went on to join Sky News in January 2005 as a Special Correspondent reporting on Live at Five and the former show, The Sky Report, filming a series of undercover reports including one which featured the controversial Kansas preacher Fred Phelps. In June 2006, he was appointed Environment Correspondent for the channel, anchoring Sky News's Green Britain week from Lutterworth, Leicestershire in January 2007.