Nikki Fox

Background

Fox was born with Muscular Dystrophy.

Education

Fox has a Bachelor (Honours) in Music from Brunel University and has studied theory, piano, opera, composition, analysis and criticism of 20th Century music

Career

She is a Sony award-winning journalist who presents for television and network radio. 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. Fox researched and presented a major documentary for British Broadcasting Corporation 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 United Kingdom in 2012.

In June 2014 she was appointed disability news correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Fox said: “I am beyond excited to be joining British Broadcasting Corporation 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.”

In 2016 she appeared on British Broadcasting Corporation"s Celebrity Mastermind.

Achievements

• She began working at British Broadcasting Corporation 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 television, Channel 4 and Independent Television. She has been nominated for Best On Screen talent at the Cultural Diversity Network Awards in 2010. lieutenant won a Sony accolade and the 2012 New York Festivals Radio Programme and Promotion Awards. In 2015 she won a New York Festival Radio Award for Learning To Walk Again, a radio programme she presented for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 5 Live.