Hywel Griffith is a Welsh television news correspondent with the

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Personal life

Griffith was born and raised in Wales. He read history at

Bristol University , mottoeng = earningpromotes one's innate power (from Horace, ''Ode 4.4'') , established = 1595 – Merchant Venturers School1876 – University College, Bristol1909 – received royal charter , type ...

, graduating in 1999, before taking a master's degree in medieval history at

Queens' College, Cambridge Queens' College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Queens' is one of the oldest colleges of the university, founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou. The college spans the River Cam, colloquially referred to as the "light s ...

, where he graduated in 2000. Griffith has the skin condition

vitiligo Vitiligo is a disorder that causes the skin to lose its color. Specific causes are unknown but studies suggest a link to immune system changes. Signs and symptoms The only sign of vitiligo is the presence of pale patchy areas of depigmen ...

Career

Griffith began his journalistic career as a graduate trainee with the

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in 2000. He took a placement with the

Cardiff newsroom as Wales Health Correspondent in 2005 before subsequently becoming Wales Correspondent in 2012 to cover new stories. In 2016, he was appointed

news correspondent for

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and

New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...

at its base in

Sydney Sydney ( ) is the capital city of the state of New South Wales, and the most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Sydney Harbour and extends about towards the Blue Mountain ...

before carrying out reporting assignments across Europe, the USA and the Caribbean. He returned to

in 2019.

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