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Nick Garnett is an English journalist and broadcaster. He currently works as the North of England reporter for BBC Radio 5 live, the news and sport network of the BBC.

Born Nicholas James Garnett in 1964 Liverpool, England, UK

Occupation Journalist/Broadcaster

Years active 1986–present

Contents [hide]

1 Biography

1.1 BBC Career

2 References

3 External links

Biography

Garnett grew up in Liverpool, England. He went to Mosspits Lane County Primary School where he was good friends with Russell Churney. He appeared in school plays with Warren Bradley who went on to become leader of Liverpool City Council. At 11 he moved to the Liverpool Bluecoat School before studying Dramatic Art and Presentation at Bretton Hall College of Higher Education (affil Leeds University) between 1983 and 1986.

Garnett first became interested in radio after studying the BBC Radio series "Radio Ballads" which mixed folk music in with first person accounts of life in Britain. He spent the summer of 1985 working for the commercial radio station, Radio City in Liverpool. Returning to college to finish his degree, Garnett worked in various bars and clubs in West Yorkshire but all the while continued working, voluntarily, for WBHS, the in-house radio station for Wakefield's Pinderfields Hospital. On completing his studies, Garnett moved, initially, to Cornwall to work as a lighting designer and technician for a small touring theatre company, Kinetik Theatre. However, a chance meeting between Garnett's mother and a fellow teacher led to him meeting the latter's husband, the news editor at BBC Radio Merseyside. He worked there, as a volunteer, for over a year, appearing on many of the station's programmes. He moved to Carlisle in June 1987 to work for BBC Radio Cumbria as a Programme Assistant, before being offered a staff contract as a presenter and Programme Assistant at BBC Radio Cleveland. Garnett presented the Breakfast Programme after his predecessor, Mark Page, left. He also produced and presented weekend breakfast programmes. In 1991, Garnett moved to BBC Radio Lancashire as a reporter, before being promoted to Producer. After four years, he resigned his position after being appointed as a network radio reporter for BBC Radio 5 live.

Garnett covered many of the major news stories whilst working in the BBC's Manchester newsroom. He was one of the first reporters to view the site where the IRA bomb, which devastated Manchester City Centrei 1996, exploded. He also exposed lapses in Uk gun laws which allowed members of the public to buy replica weapons just metres from where British Prime Minister Tony Blair was addressing the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool. Whilst covering the trial of Louise Woodward, a teenager from Cheshire, accused of causing the death of a child in her care in Boston, Mass. Garnett filed, in 1997, one of the first items to be filed as an MP3 via email. Up until this time the BBC had only allowed mp2 recordings to be filed, based on the format's recording quality. He was the first field reporter at the BBC to be issued with a Nera M4 Satellite in 1998 which, coupled with a Glensound ISDN codec, enabled him to be able to report from anywhere in the world singlehandedly, without the need for studios nor traditional radio cars. In 2000, Garnett came up with an idea to allow BBC Radio 5 live to super-serve its large football fan listenership during the European Championships in Holland and Belgium. The BBC 'took over' the frequency of a local radio station in Eindhoven whilst England's fans were in the city for the first stage of the competition, allowing fans to be able to listen to English-speaking radio whilst abroad. His work during the British General Election of 2010 was praised in the broadsheet newspaper, The Daily Telegraph when he was joined on air, during the election results programme, by the Frank Sinatra impersonating Mayor of Rochdale singing "My kind of town, Rochdale is". In recent years Garnett has devoted much of his time to increasing the flexibility of reporters in the field - often using no more than domestic or 'high-street' equipment. Mindisc usurped the use of Uher reel to reel tape recorders and this technology was then surpassed by personal digital recorders such as those made by Marantz and Nagra. He is now one of a handful of reporters using an Apple iPhone 3GS as a broadcast tool. It's now his main day to day audio recorder, used for recording and editing material before filing it by ftp and email into the BBC's ingest system.

He lives, with his family, in the Pennines between Leeds and Manchester.

BBC Radio Five Live

Nick Garnett's Twitter Account page

External links

• Nick Garnett at journalisted.com [1]