Nisbet was educated at, then a boys independent school, in Highgate area of North London, followed by the University of Bristol, where he studied History. He then studied for a Post Graduate Degree in Journalism at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies in the city of Cardiff in South Wales.
He is based in the city of Brussels in Belgium. He was formerly a programme presenter and correspondent for British Broadcasting Corporation News, presenting the Liquid News programme on the-then British Broadcasting Corporation News 24 channel (now British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel) and Entertainment Correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation Six O"Clock News (now British Broadcasting Corporation News at 6). He became Sky News" Europe Correspondent in September 2011.
Nisbet spent several years at the British Broadcasting Corporation, mainly as a correspondent for British Broadcasting Corporation News, however also as chief reporter on British Broadcasting Corporation Choice"s entertainment news show Liquid News.
lieutenant was Nisbet who discovered the body of presenter Christopher Price, after he died from a rare brain infection in 2002. Following the end of Liquid News, Nisbet went on to present The Morning Show, a short-lived daytime show on British Broadcasting Corporation One with the People’s Idol judge Nicki Chapman, in 2003, although this was cancelled after poor viewing figures.
Nisbet joined Sky News in January 2005 as a special correspondent and reported on Live at Five and the former show, The Sky Report, filming a series of undercover reports including one which featured the controversial Kansas preacher Fred Phelps. In June 2006, he was appointed Environment Correspondent for the channel, anchoring Sky News"s Green Britain week from Lutterworth, Leicestershire, in January 2007.
