Nicholas Geoffrey Higham (born 1 June 1954) is a British journalist, most notably as a correspondent for

BBC News BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadca ...

. He was educated at

Bradfield College Bradfield College, formally St Andrew's College, Bradfield, is a public school (English independent day and boarding school) for pupils aged 11–18, located in the small village of Bradfield in the English county of Berkshire. It is note ...

and

St Catharine's College, Cambridge St Catharine's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1473 as Katharine Hall, it adopted its current name in 1860. The college is nicknamed "Catz". The college is located in the historic city-centre of Camb ...

, where he graduated with a degree in English in 1975. He began his career as a freelance journalist between 1978 and 1988, when he joined the

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as its first Media Correspondent. His role expanded in 1993 to include the arts as well as media, before he became an analyst for

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in 2003. From 2007 he became a wider correspondent for BBC News, and was also the presenter of ''Meet The Author'' on the BBC News Channel (as BBC News 24 had been renamed) until January 2016. Higham left the BBC in 2018.

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