Nick Watt (CNN reporter)

Nick Watt is a Los Angeles, California based reporter for CNN and was a news program producer and correspondent at ABC News for 20 years. He was also a travel show host for a season of Watts World on the Travel Channel.[1] He previously worked for ABC News[2] for 20 years before joining CNN.[3] He is Scottish. Watt won two Emmy Awards, one for his reporting from Fallujah, Iraq in 2004,[4] and another as a producer for work in Darfur, Sudan.[5] He is also a voice actor who has voiced In the Disney series The Lion Guard as Zito the Elephant.

For the BBC reporter, see Nicholas Watt.

Career

Watt is from Jedburgh, Scotland. He did a feature on his hometown for the Travel Channel.[6] Watt began his career as a reporter for the Southampton Press newspaper[7] from 1995 until 1997.[8] Watt has a master's degree in Modern History from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland with a focus on post-war U.S. foreign policy.[7]

Watt worked at ABC's London bureau beginning in 1997 as a desk assistant and tape librarian and spent 15 years there covering news in Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, Liberia, and the Middle East. He moved to Los Angeles with ABC News in 2012 to cover the entertainment industry.[3] His work has been honored with two Emmy Awards.[7] including one for breaking news story for his coverage of fighting in Fallujah Iraq in 2004.[8]

He hosted the short-lived Travel Channel show Watts World in 2015.[9] During its one and only season he visited locations including Cuba, Italy, L.A. including Venice Beach, Hamptons area of Scotland, Dominica, Mount Shasta, Albania, Denver in Colorado, Alaska, and Portland.[1][8][10]

In 2016 Watt conducted an hourlong interview with Ben Sherwood about the Emmy Awards show and other issues.[11]

He has also been a correspondent on Good Morning America and Nightline.[10]

Watt currently voices Zito The Elephant in The Lion Guard.

Personal life

Watt lives in Santa Monica. He is married with children.[1] His wife was born in South Africa. His hobbies include cricket and rugby.[12]

Watt is a fan of the song Breezeblocks by alt-J and The Carpenters, Led Zeppelin, Bob Dylan, and Belle & Sebastian.[13]

References
  1. "What Nick Watt Learned By Traveling the World". ABC News. 30 June 2015.
  2. "CNN Profiles - Nick Watt - Correspondent - CNN". CNN.
  3. "Nick Watt Joins CNN". www.adweek.com.
  4. "ABC's Nick Watt Moving from London to Los Angeles".
  5. "Nick Watt Official Biography". ABC NEWS. June 13, 2017.
  6. "Nick Watt's Hometown".
  7. "Nick Watt Official Biography". ABC News. 13 June 2017.
  8. "Former Press Reporter Nick Watt Shoots Travel Channel's 'Watt's World' on East End".
  9. Friedlander, Whitney (22 April 2014). "Travel Channel Orders Nick Watt Pilot, More".
  10. "Journalist Nick Watt to Host New Travel Channel Series WAtt's WORLD, 6/30".
  11. "Ben Sherwood: ABC is 'Very Hopeful' That Jimmy Kimmel Will Host Oscars". 2016-09-23.
  12. "Travel Style: Nick Watt". 15 July 2015.
  13. "UPROXX 20: Nick Watt Went All Out when He Saw the Cure Live in Scotland". 2015-06-29.
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