Nick Garnett (born October 1964,
Liverpool) is an
English journalist and broadcaster with the
British Broadcasting Corporation. He works for the broadcaster's national TV news bulletins, the
BBC News Channel, network radio stations and the
BBC News website.
Biography
Garnett grew up in
Liverpool, England. He worked at a number of local radio stations before joining BBC Radio 5 Live in 1994. In 2020 he became one of the BBC's North of England Reporters.
In 1998 he was one of the first field reporters at the BBC to be issued with a
Nera M4 Satellite in 1998 which enabled him to operate as a single-person radio broadcaster. His work during the British General Election of 2010 was reviewed in ''
The Daily Telegraph''.
He has written about his life as a reporter working overseas as he travelled from Nepal to Tunisia and Eastern Europe in 2015.
In recent years he has moved from using traditional audio recorders to using an iPhone to record, mix and send material from the field to his radio station: known as
Mobile journalism Mobile journalism is a form of multimedia newsgathering and storytelling that enables journalists to document, edit and share news using small, network connected devices like smartphones.
Mobile journalists report in video, audio, photography, and ...
. He was one of the first broadcasters to use a live streaming camera application to broadcast live TV pictures for broadcast on the BBC News Channel from an iPhone.
He has reported on court cases including that of the nurse
Lucy Letby
Lucy Letby (born 4 January 1990) is a British serial killer and former neonatal nurse convicted of the murder of seven infants and attempted murder of six others between June 2015 and June 2016. Letby was the focus of suspicion following a hi ...
and Brian Buckle who spent five and a half years in prison for crimes he didn't commit. In June 2024 he covered the disappearance of
Jay Slater in
Tenerife on TV and the BBC website.
References
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1964 births
Living people
BBC newsreaders and journalists
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