Robert Nisbet (journalist)

Robert Nisbet (born 1968), is Europe Correspondent for Sky News, the 24-hour television news service operated by Sky Television, part of British Sky Broadcasting. He is based in the city of Brussels in Belgium. He was formerly a programme presenter and correspondent for BBC News, presenting the Liquid News programme on the-then BBC News 24 channel (now BBC News Channel) and Entertainment Correspondent for the BBC Six O'Clock News (now BBC News at 6). He became Sky News' Europe Correspondent in September 2011.[1]

Education

Nisbet was educated at Highgate School, then a boys independent school, in Highgate area of North London, followed by the University of Bristol, where he studied History. He then studied for a Post Graduate Degree in Journalism at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies in the city of Cardiff in South Wales.

Life and career

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.[2] It was Nisbet who discovered the body of presenter Christopher Price, after he died from a rare brain infection in 2002.[3] 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,[4] although this was cancelled after poor viewing figures.

Nisbet joined Sky News in January 2005 as a special correspondent and reported 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.

References

  1. ↑ Sky News - Biographies - Robert Nisbet Sky News Press Office online Created: September 2011. Retrieved: 1 December, 2011.
  2. ↑ "New face for BBC arts news". bbc.co.uk. 11 May 2001. Retrieved 2008-08-31.
  3. ↑ "'Accident' theory of TV man's death". Mail Online. 24 April 2002. Retrieved 2008-08-31.
  4. ↑ "Daytime TV gets new look". bbc.co.uk. 6 January 2003. Retrieved 2008-08-31.

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