Nikki Fox

Nikki Fox
Born Nicola Fox
1980
Nationality British
Alma mater Brunel University
Occupation Journalist
Employer BBC

Nikki Fox (born 1980) is a broadcaster, presenter and documentary maker. She is a Sony Award-winning journalist who presents for television and network radio. Fox was born with muscular dystrophy.[1]

Career

Fox has a BA (Hons) in music from Brunel University and has studied theory, piano, opera, composition, analysis and criticism of 20th Century music. She began working at BBC Radio Cambridgeshire on the Peterborough Breakfast Show, presenting Fox’s What’s On Guide, as well as competitions and she then won a place on a Channel 4 Disability Researcher Training Scheme and started working at Maverick TV, Channel 4 and ITV.[2] In 2010, Fox was a researcher and co-presenter on Gok Wan's "How To Look Good Naked with a Disability", a Channel 4 show.[3]

She has been nominated for Best On Screen talent at the Cultural Diversity Network Awards in 2010. Fox researched and presented a major documentary for BBC Radio 5 Live, ‘Beyond Disability: The Adventures of a Blue Badger’ where she set out to discover what it is really like being disabled in the UK in 2012. It won a Sony accolade and the 2012 New York Festivals Radio Programme and Promotion Awards.

In June 2014 she was appointed disability news correspondent for the BBC.[4] Fox said: “I am beyond excited to be joining BBC News and am thrilled to be able to work as part of a specialist team of journalists, dedicated to the reporting of disability issues for a national audience, in a new and fresh way.”[5]

In 2015 she won a New York Festival Radio Award for Learning To Walk Again, a radio programme she presented for BBC Radio 5 Live.[6]

In 2016 she appeared on an episode of BBC's Celebrity Mastermind.[7]

In June 2016, it was announced that she will join the BBC Watchdog presenting team from the autumn.

References

  1. ↑ The Guardian. Diversity in Media. Naked Ambition. 23 November 2009
  2. ↑ Take 3 Management. Nikki Fox
  3. ↑ "Hit Channel 4 Show Focuses on Disability". Muscular Dystrophy News.
  4. ↑ "Nikki Fox Disability Correspondent", "The Guardian", 23 April 2014
  5. ↑ "Nikk Fox appointed as BBC News Disability Correspondent", "Same Difference", 24 April 2014
  6. ↑ New York Festival Awards. 2015
  7. ↑ BBC. Celebrity Mastermind

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