Nick Paton Walsh Biography
Nick Paton Walsh is CNN’s International Security Editor and a British journalist. He has worked as CNN’s Kabul Correspondent, Channel 4 News’ Asia and Foreign Affairs Correspondent, and The Guardian’s Moscow Correspondent.
Nick Paton Walsh Age
Walsh is 44 years old as of 2022. He was born on 26 November 1977 in Guildford, United Kingdom.
Nick Paton Walsh Education
Walsh attended Epsom College, a private boarding school in Epsom, Surrey, before attending University College London.
Nick Paton Walsh Family
Walsh has not shared any information regarding his loving parents as of now, 2022. Nonetheless, we will update the site as soon as we get more intel from our trusted sources of information as soon as possible.
Nick Paton Walsh Wife
Walsh is not married.
Nick Paton Walsh Salary
Walsh earns an annual salary of $100 thousand.
Nick Paton Walsh Net Worth
Walsh has an estimated net worth of $5 million.
Nick Paton Walsh Career
Walsh began working for CNN in Pakistan in March 2011. He was the first reporter in the country to cover the assassination of Osama bin Laden, accessing the fugitive’s old compound and breaking the news that cellphone signals had led the CIA to the al-Qaeda leader. Walsh reviewed American President Barack Obama’s statement on the army departure from Afghanistan, documenting a Taliban comeback in Nuristan Province, a thriving opium culture in Badakhshan Province, insurgent brutality, and a resurgent al-Qaeda in Kunar. He also reported from Benghazi on Libya’s declaration of independence following Gaddafi’s overthrow. He joined CNN as a full-time journalist in Kabul in September.
In August 2012, Paton Walsh relocated to Beirut, where he began reporting on Syria’s civil conflict. From inside Aleppo, he reported on the destiny of a 4-year-old girl shot by a sniper, the aftermath of an airstrike on a family house, Aleppo bombings, and a protracted fight for 100 yards of a street in the Old City. CNN won a Peabody Award, two Edward R Murrow Awards, and a News and Documentary Emmy Award for Individual Achievement in a Craft – Writing as a result of the reports. Paton Walsh covered the alleged Boston Bombers’ family in Dagestan and the scheduled demolition of Gezi Park in Turkey during weeks of protest.
In September 2006, he moved from the Guardian newspaper to Channel Four News at ITN as a foreign affairs journalist. He reported from Mosul and Basra and covered the Iraq surge from both Washington and Baghdad. He worked in Chechnya and Ingushetia, covered child soldiers in the Central African Republic, and climate change in Tajikistan, and interviewed Russian murder suspect Andrey Lugovoy on the day the Russian businessman was charged by British authorities with the murder of Alexander Litvinenko.
Paton Walsh uncovered a number of exclusives for the show while based in London, including the British use of incendiary bombs in Afghanistan, a covert British program to train the special forces of regimes with questionable human rights records, and Sebastian Coe’s controversial description of Chinese policemen who guided the Olympic torch through London as “thugs.”
During the 2008 elections in Zimbabwe, Paton Walsh was the program’s undercover correspondent. During the brutal crackdown on the MDC, he was one of just a few western correspondents inside the nation. In July 2008, he covered the war between Georgia and Russia from both sides of the front lines.
Paton Walsh relocated to Bangkok in September 2008 to become the program’s Asia reporter. He obtained his first interview with the Australian barman in the Taj Hotel during the Mumbai hotel sieges in November of that year. In March 2009, Channel Four News broadcasted the first interview with reputed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in seven years. The interview, which took place in Paton Walsh’s remand center and in the courts where he was facing extradition to the United States, was the result of six months of negotiations by Paton Walsh. Bout claimed innocent but conceded that his planes might have carried weapons without his knowledge, that he sold guns to the Afghan government in the 1990s, and that he was close acquaintances with Jean Pierre Bemba, an alleged warlord facing charges of crimes against humanity in the Hague.
Paton Walsh was deported from Sri Lanka alongside his colleagues from a Channel Four News team in April 2009 for reporting on allegations of sexual assault in camps for internally displaced people made by the United Nations. The team’s other members, including producers Nevine Mabro and Bessie Du, as well as cameraman Matt Jasper, were among a select few to cover the end of the 25-year war when the military closed in on a small strip of land in the country’s northeast known as the No Fire Zone, which was populated by civilians. After three weeks of reporting, the crew broadcast footage secretly filmed inside the camps where Tamil people escaping the war was being kept.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the country’s defense minister, was so incensed by the news that he personally called Paton Walsh to inform him that he and his team would be deported. They were apprehended by police and hauled to the airport, drawing international attention to the charges in his report.
Paton Walsh worked frequently in Afghanistan as an Asia journalist, especially during the 2009 presidential election turmoil. He received rare access to COP Keating in Nurestan, a tiny American outpost located near the Pakistani border, which was captured by terrorists in October 2009. He was embedded around the nation in Orzgn, Helmand, Paktika, Khost, Nurestan, Kunar, and Kandahar. Paton Walsh spoke with General Stanley McChrystal, the NATO leader who was ousted from his post after making insensitive remarks about his civilian superiors. In Chhattisgarh, India, he interviewed Taliban leaders Mansoor Dadullah and Mullah Nasir, as well as Naxalite insurgents, and watched as his office in Bangkok, Thailand, was encircled by demonstrators. Walsh has also worked in China on vigilante murders and economic booms, as well as in Dubai on migrant labor.
Other anchors include Forrest Sawyer, Joan Lunden, Jim Avila, Joan Lunden, Cecily Tynan, Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan, Lara Spencer, Ginger Zee, David Muir, Amy Robach, Kendis Gibson, Diane Macedo, Rob Nelson, Paula Faris, and Reena Ninan.