Nick Paton Walsh Biography
Nick Paton Walsh is an American anchor and reporter working for CNN as a news correspondent. He joined the CNN news team in March 2011, after previously working for Channel Four News.
Nick Paton Walsh Career
Paton Walsh is the Chief International Security Correspondent for CNN and has won multiple Emmy Awards. Paton Walsh works for CNN in London and covers war, global security, and intelligence news for both TV and CNN Digital. Reporting from war zones around the world for decades and having a lot of contacts and knowledge in the international security and intelligence communities help Paton Walsh report on and give well-informed context and analysis of important global security issues in the studio and on the ground.
Paton Walsh used to be the network’s International Security Editor. In that role, he brought back a wide range of stories from the battlefields of Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan, as well as stories about global terrorism and the continued threat of COVID-19. He has been very important to CNN’s coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In 2023, he was part of the CNN team that won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Live Breaking News Coverage for their work on this story.
Paton Walsh reported about Kabul’s fall to the Taliban in 2021 and was in charge of an investigation into the deaths of more than 170 Afghans and Americans at Abbey Gate, near the capital’s airport. During the 2020 pandemic, he reported from Brazil, Iran, and Coventry, England. He also broke an exclusive story about what China knew in the first few weeks of the pandemic. He has also written a lot about the political, social, and environmental disasters in Venezuela, Brazil, and Haiti in the past few years.
Since he joined CNN in 2011, Paton Walsh has been at the center of some of the most award-winning stories the network has ever done, especially those about Syria and Iraq. The news he gave about Turkey’s invasion of Syria helped the network win an Emmy Award in 2020 for Outstanding Breaking News Coverage. In 2018, the Overseas Press Club gave him the David Kaplan Award for his reporting on the fall of ISIS. He also won two 2018 Emmy Awards for “The Fall of Raqqa,” two Edward R. Murrow Awards in 2013 and one in 2018, and three Peabody Awards for CNN’s coverage in Syria (2012), for its reporting on ISIS (2016), and for its coverage of the fall of ISIS in Iraq and Syria (2018).
His reporting about plastic waste and police brutality in El Salvador has won him the Eppy Awards. He also got an Emmy in 2013 for Outstanding Writing for the scripts he wrote in Syria and Afghanistan.
In 2019, Paton Walsh reported from inside Venezuela while hiding to see how the crisis was developing. He shared important information and videos about the plan to kill Nicolas Maduro with commercial drones and the very profitable drug routes that go through the troubled country and make the military and elite rich. In Iran, he talked to Javad Zarif, the foreign minister. Zarif’s threat of “all-out war” if Iran was struck made news all over the world.
He also covered the Turkish invasion of Syrian Kurdish areas and broke several stories about the US’s plans to leave Syria. Paton Walsh also wrote from the Amazon jungle, where the worst fires in at least ten years were happening. Paton Walsh had been in Afghanistan for a long time during the chaotic end of NATO’s war there. In 2012, he went to Beirut to work for the network. There, he reported from inside Syria during the worst part of its civil war. From the moment ISIS first appeared in Syria in 2013 to the time they were defeated in Mosul over three years later and finally in Raqqa at the end of 2017, he watched ISIS grow and spread.
He is fluent in Russian and has covered the Russian-backed invasion of Ukraine in 2014, including the fighting in Donetsk. In 2015, when the key city of Debaltseve fell to rebels, he was the first Western reporter to get there. After the 2013 Boston bombings, Paton Walsh also reported from Dagestan. He talked to the Tsarnaev brothers’ family and made some of the first connections to extremists there.
Paton Walsh has also covered many important environmental stories and natural tragedies in the Philippines and the Caribbean. In 2019, he wrote about the fires in the Amazon from one of Brazil’s worst-affected states.
In 2018 he won an Eppy award for his work on gang violence in El Salvador, and in 2017 he got one for CNN’s “Midway Island” report on plastic pollution in the Pacific. Paton Walsh was in Pakistan for the first time in March 2011 to report for CNN. After that, he was the network’s first reporter to report live from Abbottabad to cover the death of Osama bin Laden. There, he got exclusive video from inside the al-Qaeda leader’s base and broke the story that an American soldier’s cell phone signal had led them there.
He worked in Asia for several years for the UK’s Channel Four News, mostly in Afghanistan, where he got rare access to COP Keating, an American outpost near the Pakistani border that was being overrun by militants. He also covered the 2009 presidential election crisis. As an Asia and foreign affairs correspondent for Channel Four News. There he got a rare and exclusive interview with Viktor Bout, a Russian man who is accused of selling weapons. His team was forced to leave Sri Lanka because of reports they made about alleged human rights abuses there at the end of the civil war.
Paton Walsh worked as a reporter for the Guardian in Moscow from 2002 to 2006. This was during the rise of Vladimir Putin. He wrote about the siege of the Dubrovka theater and the hostage crisis at the Beslan school. He also covered the protests in Georgia, Ukraine, and Kyrgyzstan and news from the troubled North Caucasus. The British Press Awards named Paton Walsh Young Journalist of the Year in 2000. He was 22 years old at the time. In 2006, Amnesty International gave him the Gaby Rado Award for a writer at the start of their career for his work in the former Soviet Union. In 2010, they gave him their television award for his work in Sri Lanka.
Nick Paton Walsh Salary
Walsh earns a salary of about $47,000-$120,000.
Nick Paton Walsh Net Worth
Walsh has an estimated net worth of about $1 Million – $7 Million which he has earned through his career as a News Correspondent.
Nick Paton Walsh Age
Walsh was born on November 26, 1977, in Guildford, United Kingdom. He is 46 years old as of 2023, and he celebrates his birthday on the 26th of November every year.
Nick Paton Walsh Height and Weight
Walsh stands at a height of 5 feet 8 inches tall (1.72m) and weighs 61kgs (134 lbs)
Nick Paton Walsh Family
Walsh likes to keep his personal life private hence he has neither disclosed the names of his parent nor those of his siblings. However, this information will be updated when available.
Nick Paton Walsh Wife and Children
Walsh is married to Christina Macfarlane, a CNN news anchor. The couple tied the knot on August 23, 2020, at Blairmore, Argyll And Bute, United Kingdom. The two are blessed with a daughter named Grace Elizabeth Nancy (born June 15, 2021).
Nick Paton Walsh Wedding
Paton Walsh has not disclosed any details concerning their wedding. However, this information will be updated when available.
Nick Paton Walsh Social Media Platforms
Walsh is very active on his Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook pages. He has 26.6k followers on Twitter 300 followers on Instagram, and 1.8k followers on Facebook.