Nick Dixon
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Nick Dixon | |
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![]() Dixon reporting on Daybreak from Times Square on 28 April 2011 | |
Born | Nick Dixon 26 September 1971 |
Occupation(s) | Correspondent, Journalist, Television producer |
Years active | 2005-present |
Television | Good Morning Britain (2014—) Daybreak (2010-14) GMTV (2005-10) |
Children | 1 (b. 2012) |
Nick Dixon is a Scottish
Career
Nick Dixon left school at the age of 16 and went to work for BBC Scotland delivering the mail.[citation needed]
In 1991, Dixon started as a copy boy in the newsroom of BBC Radio Scotland, moving onto typing up stories from reporters and correspondents and helping out on location.[citation needed]
Dixon joined Radio Clyde in Glasgow as a Production Assistant in 1993 and in the same year worked as a researcher on the BBC quiz show Catchword.[citation needed]
Dixon started with Scottish Television (STV) as a Promotions Director in 1995.
1999 marked the beginning of Dixon's time with Scottish Television's flagship news programme
Dixon has also produced and presented a documentary on STV entitled Archie McLean: The Forgotten Father of Brazilian Football.[citation needed]
Moving to London in July 2005, Dixon joined GMTV as a news producer. He was promoted to reporter in November 2005 and during his first week on the job reported live from the Paris riots on the Champs-Élysées. Dixon reported live from Times Square, New York City on David Blaine's world record attempt in May 2006. He was also a relief newsreader on GMTV.[citation needed]
In September 2010, Dixon transferred to ITV Breakfast programme Daybreak as New York correspondent. From July 2011 until April 2014, he was a Features correspondent, based in London. In April 2014, Daybreak was axed to make way for a new ITV Breakfast programme called Good Morning Britain for which Dixon is a news correspondent.[1]
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Reference(s) |
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1999-2005 | Scotland Today | News presenter | Stand-in news presenter on 28 April 2006 and 20 February 2007 | |
2005-2010 | GMTV | News Correspondent | Stand-in news presenter on 28 April 2006 and 20 February 2007 | [2][3] |
2006 | Archie McLean: The Forgotten Father of Brazilian Football | Narrator and Producer | One-off documentary for STV
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2010-11 | Daybreak | New York Correspondent | Replaced by Lucy Watson in July 2011
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2011-14 | News Correspondent | Based in London since 2011 | ||
2014— | Good Morning Britain | News Correspondent | Moved from Daybreak in April 2014 |
References
- ^ "About Nick Dixon". ITV. 28 Apr 2014
- ^ "Nick Dixon". Rex Features. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- The Free Library.
External links
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