Education
Matthew Price was educated at The Haberdashers" Aske"s Boys" School, a day independent school in Elstree in Hertfordshire, followed by at the University of Cambridge, gaining a First Class degree in Geography.
Matthew Price was educated at The Haberdashers" Aske"s Boys" School, a day independent school in Elstree in Hertfordshire, followed by at the University of Cambridge, gaining a First Class degree in Geography.
He began his career in 1994 as a trainee local radio reporter. He worked at British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Lincolnshire and then for the British Broadcasting Corporation in Newcastle. In 1999 he moved on to report for the British Broadcasting Corporation"s news programme for children, Newsround.
In 2000 he was voted the Royal Television Society"s Young Journalist of the Year.
Following his work for Newsround he went on to work in a number of posts as a British Broadcasting Corporation television reporter, including Belgrade correspondent, and covering the Iraq War from an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf and from Baghdad. Prior to moving to New York, he was stationed in Jerusalem as a Middle East correspondent.
He now lives and works in Brussels as the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Europe Correspondent often reporting for the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel, British Broadcasting Corporation World News and the flagship British Broadcasting Corporation One News bulletins, the British Broadcasting Corporation News at Six and the British Broadcasting Corporation News at Ten. In January 2011 their work as a team was recognised with a dupont-Columbia School of Journalism Award for coverage of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
The coverage of the Haiti Earthquake also earned Matthew, producer Ian Sherwood and cameraman Chuck Tayman an Emmy Nomination in 2011.