Robert Nisbet (journalist)

Robert Nisbet (born 1968) is a British former journalist, now working as Regional Director for the Rail Delivery Group.

Initially a programme presenter and correspondent for BBC News, presenting the Liquid News programme on BBC News 24 channel and Entertainment Correspondent for the BBC Six O'Clock News. In 2005 he then joined Sky Television, part of British Sky Broadcasting, as entertainment correspondent. From September 2011 he was Europe Correspondent based in Brussels, Belgium.[1]

Education

Nisbet was educated at Highgate School, then a boys' independent school, in the Highgate, London, followed by the University of Bristol, where he studied history. He then studied for a postgraduate degree in journalism at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies.

Life and career

Nisbet spent several years at the BBC, mainly as a correspondent for BBC News but 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 shortlived daytime show on BBC One with the Pop Idol judge Nicki Chapman, in 2003,[4] but that 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 featuring 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.

In April 2018 Nisbet joined the Rail Delivery Group (RDG) "a membership body in the British railway system, bringing together the companies that run Britain’s railway into a single team with one goal - to deliver a better railway for Britain, its businesses and communities" as Regional Director on the Executive Committee, where his previous journalistic experience has led him to fulfill the post of broadcast spokesman.

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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