Nick Paton Walsh

Biography

A Russia specialist, Nick became Asia correspondent in September 2008.

In the two years before that, he covered the war between Russia and Georgia, and was the programme's undercover correspondent in Harare during the Zimbabwean elections.

He also covered the announcement of the US troop surge in Iraq in Washington and its implementation in Baghdad, and Mosul.

He gained an exclusive interview with Andrei Lugovoi, the Russia accused of poisoning former spy Alexander Litvinenko, on the day he was charged with murder.

He's reported from central and eastern Afghanistan, from Gaza, the Central African Republic, Mexico, Yakutsk, Ingushetia, and even Paris.

Nick joined Channel 4 News as foreign affairs correspondent in September 2006.

Prior to that he was Moscow correspondent for the Guardian for four years. During this time he covered the Beslan and Dubrovka theatre sieges and the Georgian, Ukrainian and Kyrgyz "revolutions".

Last year he won Amnesty International's Gaby Rado Award for a journalist at the start of their career, and also the EU's Lorenzo Natali Award for human rights reporting.

In 2000, whilst a reporter at the Observer, he was the British Press Awards' Young Journalist of the Year.

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