Nic Robertson

Nic Robertson (born Dominic Robertson on 8 June 1962) is a Senior International Correspondent at CNN.

Nic started his career in broadcasting in 1984 within the engineering arm of the UK's Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA.) He then worked as an engineer with TV-AM until 1989.

Nic began his career at CNN in 1989, starting as a satellite engineer. He first came to public attention when he stayed in Baghdad with Peter Arnett at the start of the Persian Gulf War in 1991. Later that year, he was moved to Chicago, where he became a producer in CNN's Chicago Bureau. He then became the producer for Christiane Amanpour and was moved to CNN's London bureau, where he later made the jump to reporter. He has won numerous awards, including two Overseas Press Club Awards, a Peabody, a duPont, and several Emmy Awards for his work in war zones and disaster areas around the world. People magazine voted him Sexiest News Correspondent in 2001 but he is better known as a fearless veteran of the world's conflict zones, including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, Somalia, the Darfur region of Sudan, Northern Ireland and both the Gulf War and the Iraq War. During the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 CNN sent Robertson to report from New Orleans. He also reported from ground zero in Beirut, Lebanon covering the 2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis. Robertson is a native of the UK and is married to former CNN correspondent Margaret Lowrie. He has two daughters.

Robertson recently hosted CNNI's news show Prism, out of Abu Dhabi for several weeks. He is based in London.

He was portrayed by the actor Matt Keeslar in the movie Live from Baghdad.

Editorial awards:

• 1992 Emmy
• 1993 New York Festival
• 1995 Emmy
• 1996 Cable ACE Award
• 1997 Cable ACE Award
• 2001 Alfred I Du Pont award
• 2002 Emmy
• 2002 Royal Television Society winner
• 2002 and 2003 David Kaplan Award
• 2002 Peabody Award
• 2003 Emmy
• 2005 Peabody
• 2008 Peabody

Shortlisted: Royal Television Society -- Reporter of the Year 2002; Monte Carlo Television Festival 2009 -- World’s Untold Stories: One Woman’s War

Technology awards: 2002 Royal Television Society Innovation award - Satellite telephone; 2006 -2007 Emmy for technology and engineering, (digital newsgathering); 2007 IBC Digital News gathering innovation award.

External links

• Nic Robertson profile at CNN.com
• Facebook
• Twitter - NicRobertsonCNN

Persondata
Name	Robertson, Nic
Alternative names
Short description	Used as a "Human Shield" in Libya according to CNN
Date of birth	8 June 1962
Place of birth	London, England
Date of death
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