Michelle Nichols

About

An award-winning correspondent with strong editorial judgment and leadership skills who has worked in Australia, Britain, the United States, Africa and Asia over the past 25 years. Excellent ability to pick up and distill complex issues with ease and lead multimedia coverage. Adept at quickly generating and building a rapport with a variety of people from diplomats, politicians and U.N. officials to media, civil society and refugees. An accomplished reporter and writer who led Reuters coverage on top stories from the North Korea nuclear crisis, the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, South Sudan and Yemen, genocide in Myanmar, the 2004 tsunami in Indonesia and an Australian election. Seventeen years working for a global company - Reuters news is read and seen every day by more than one billion people worldwide. Additional experience in television, radio and photography. United Nations Correspondents Association executive board member 2014 - 2018. Winner of Newswomen’s Club of New York awards in 2010 and 2017 for coverage of G20 protests and displaced South Sudanese. Silver medal winner of a U.N. Correspondents Association Award in 2022. Twitter following of 22,400