Nicholas Jones is a British broadcasting and newspaper journalist, author and political commentator.
Background
Jones was born on 1 October 1942 in the market town of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. His father was Clem Jones, who edited the Express & Star in Wolverhampton for a decade from 1960, and his brother is George Jones, the former political editor of The Daily Telegraph.
Education
Jones was educated at Tettenhall College, a boarding independent school for boys (now co-educational) in the suburban town of Tettenhall in Staffordshire (since 1966 part of Wolverhampton).
Career
Jones is a print and broadcasting journalist and former British Broadcasting Corporation industrial and senior political correspondent with over fifty years" experience. He is also the author of several books about British politics and industrial relations. In the late 1950s, Jones left school at the age of 16, to work as an editorial assistant on the weekly trade magazine Advertisers Weekly.
Foreign seven years he worked as a reporter on evening newspapers in Portsmouth and Oxford.
In 1968, Jones joined The Times newspaper as a parliamentary reporter. In 1972, he joined British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Leicester as a news producer, and within 18 months became a reporter for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio News in London.
He became an acting British Broadcasting Corporation political correspondent at Westminster for the 1975 Broadcasting from Parliament experiment. In 1979, Jones became British Broadcasting Corporation Labour and Trade Union Affairs Correspondent, and in 1980 British Broadcasting Corporation Labour Correspondent, followed by British Broadcasting Corporation Political Correspondent, based at Westminster.
Jones left the British Broadcasting Corporation in 2002, and has continued to write and speak about political matters at conferences and in the media.
He is on the national council of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom and a trustee of the Journalists" Charity.