Nicholas Watt Biography
Nicholas Watt is a CNN reporter based in Los Angeles, California, and an occasional anchor on CNN International. Prior to joining CNN in 2018, he worked for ABC News for 20 years as a producer and then as a correspondent. On the Travel Channel, he also hosted Watts World.
Watt has two Emmy Awards, one for his reporting from Fallujah, Iraq in 2004, and another for his work as a producer in Darfur, Sudan. In the Disney series The Lion Guard, he also plays Zito the elephant.
Nicholas Watt Age
Watt was born in the town of Paisley, Scotland. Her date and month of birth are not revealed. He grew up in places like the Scottish Borders, Thailand, Malaysia, Turkey, and South Africa.
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Nicholas Watt Education
Watt attended Wimbledon’s King’s College School before studying History at the University of York from 1986 to 1989, followed by a postgraduate diploma in Journalism Studies from 1989 to 1990.
Nicholas Watt Height
Nick stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches/1.7 m tall. ALSO READ: Melissa Gorga
Nicholas Watt Family and Parents
He was raised by his parents, but no information about his siblings or family, in general, has been provided. It is unknown if he had siblings, and his father and mother’s identities remain unknown. He has kept his childhood private from the public.
Nicholas Watt Wife| Partner| Married
Is Wat married? Watt is a married man. He is married to Rebecca Keating who’s an Australian citizen and also a BBC journalist.
Nicholas Watt’s Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.
Nicholas Watt CNN| BBC|Career
Watt began his career as a political reporter based in Belfast for The Times, where he covered the early stages of the peace process. Following his appointment as a political correspondent for The Times in 1997, he moved to London before joining The Guardian a year later as European editor and chief political correspondent. He was The Observer’s acting political editor between 2007 and 2008. He was ranked 14th on Press Gazette’s list of the “top 50 political reporters” in 2012. Watt left The Guardian in 2016 to become the political editor of BBC Two’s Newsnight, succeeding Allegra Stratton. Ian Katz, the editor of Newsnight at the time, was also a former Guardian employee. who said that Watt was “one of the most trusted, authoritative and engaging journalists in the country.
He’s also uniquely qualified to guide viewers through an increasingly fractured and complex political landscape, having worked in Northern Ireland, Europe, and Westminster.” A number of BBC journalists were said to be “irritated” by the director of BBC News, James Harding, appointing figures with newspaper industry backgrounds to BBC positions, including Watt. In March 2019, he recalled a scathing remark made by an anonymous cabinet minister under Theresa May. Watt was harassed during a COVID-19 anti-lockdown demonstration outside Downing Street in June 2021. Footage of his treatment was widely shared on social media and was condemned by Boris Johnson and Priti Patel, the Home Secretary.