Dan Rivers is US correspondent at ITV News, and a former correspondent at

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and

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Education

Rivers was educated at

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, a boys' state comprehensive school in the city of Bath in

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, followed by

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at Durham University where he studied social science, and Falmouth College of Arts, where he obtained a post-graduate diploma in broadcast journalism.

Career

He started in BBC local radio in south-west Britain, in Cornwall and Devon. After a stint as a producer at BBC Radio Five Live, he worked at Euronews in Lyon for a year in 2000. In 2001 he joined '' ITV News'' later being promoted to Crime Correspondent. He reported on

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. In 2010 Rivers joined

as a senior international correspondent mainly covering South-East Asia from Bangkok. He rejoined '' ITV News'' in 2013 as their Wales and West of England correspondent. He was soon moved to cover predominantly international news based in London in 2014. He has covered a variety of international stories including the earthquakes in Nepal in 2015 and on-going assignments to Syria and the Middle East. In 2022 Rivers covered the war in Ukraine extensively. He was the first journalist to report from Kharkiv on the same day missiles hit the main administrative building in the city. He filed reports from the frontlines in the Donbass and Kyiv, as well as special reports detailing Russian war crimes. In 2023 Rivers was appointed US Correspondent for ITV News, covering north America for ITV's main bulletins.

Awards and nominations

* Shortlisted Royal Television Society Specialist journalism 2006 * Winner - 2009 George Polk Awards, for International Television Reporting * Winner Cine Eagle Award 2009 * Winner Amnesty International Media Award 2009 - A forgotten People * Nominated - News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast * Nominated for Royal Television Specialist of the year 2020 for coverage of the migrant crisis. * Nominated Royal Television Society Specialist journalist of the year 2023 for Ukraine War Crimes coverage

Personal life

Dan Rivers is the only child of Dr. John Rivers, an eminent nutritionist who worked at the

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is a public research university in Bloomsbury, central London, and a member institution of the University of London that specialises in public health and tropical medicine. The inst ...

carrying out pioneering work on famine relief in

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. His mother is a retired biochemist. Dan is married to Australian journalist Selina Downes.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rivers, Dan Alumni of University College, Durham Alumni of Falmouth University British television journalists CNN people George Polk Award recipients ITN newsreaders and journalists Living people People educated at Beechen Cliff School Year of birth missing (living people)