{{Short description|English broadcast journalist, radio host, TV presenter (b.1966)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Nick Lawrence | image = | caption = | birth_name = Nick Meir | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1966}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | education = | occupation = Broadcast journalist, radio and television presenter | other_names = | title = | family = | employer = BBC | spouse = | height = | partner = | children = | relatives = | credits = {{nowrap|''Watchdog''<br />''Inside Out (BBC1)'' <br />''The Politics Show ''<br />''Rogue Traders''<br />''Whistleblower (BBC1)''<br />''You and Yours (Radio 4)''<br />''Face The Facts (Radio 4)''}} | website = {{URL|https://nickmeir.com}} }}
'''Nick Lawrence''' is the pen name of '''Nick Meir''' (born February 1966), a broadcast journalist, radio host, TV presenter, and producer from the United Kingdom.<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-12815681/train-seats-to-be-made-smaller-do-they-measure-up Train seats to be made smaller - do they measure up?]</ref><ref name="Gorkana">[http://gorkana.cn/news/all/people-news/ex-waggener-edstrom-execs-launch-agency/ Gorkana Community News: Ex-Waggener Edstrom execs launch agency]{{Dead link|date=December 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://communicateinfluence.com/broadcast-journalism-and-pr-cultures-are-world-apart-says-comms-pro/ |title=Broadcast journalism and PR cultures are 'Worlds apart', says comms pro |access-date=14 September 2020 |archive-date=27 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200927101312/https://communicateinfluence.com/broadcast-journalism-and-pr-cultures-are-world-apart-says-comms-pro/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Nick Meir">[https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickmeir/ Nick Meir Personal Profile on LinkedIn]</ref> Between 2001 - 2012 he appeared on many BBC and radio current affairs programmes.<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/have_your_say/nick_homeless.shtml BBC: Nick Lawrence becomes homeless]</ref><ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/read_this/2002/12/nick_monday.shtml BBC: Monday: First day, first impressions]</ref><ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/do_that/2002/11/children_in_need/calendar.shtml Make a date with a minging motor]</ref> He reported on ''Watchdog'' for three years, where he worked alongside Nicky Campbell, Julia Bradbury, and Paul Heiney (BBC1).<ref name="Watchdog">[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007cjvw Watchdog: BBC Episode 13, series 21]</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/video-tv-producer-is-inspired-to-enter-first-half-marathon-1-1136016 |title=Norwich Evening News: Video: TV producer is inspired to enter first half marathon |access-date=14 September 2020 |archive-date=3 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603221326/https://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/video-tv-producer-is-inspired-to-enter-first-half-marathon-1-1136016 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He has also reported and produced on a number of other BBC programmes including Inside Out (BBC1),<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/8344410.stm BBC Inside Out: Parents losing children in 'loaded system]</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-15822807 Inside Out: Luton's Marsh Farm estate £750,000 land sale probed]</ref> The Politics Show (BBC1),<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/politics_show/6131790.stm BBC One "Politics Show": West Midlands: Industrial dosh...]</ref> Rogue Traders (BBC1),<ref name="Watchdog"/> BBC Breakfast News, Whistleblower (BBC1), You and Yours (Radio 4) and ''Face The Facts'' (Radio 4).<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/east/series3/hospital_waiting_lists.shtml WHY ARE WE WAITING? - HOSPITAL BEDS]</ref><ref>[https://www.business-live.co.uk/economic-development/wrekin-constructions-gem-tanzania-not-3938473 BusinessLive: Wrekin Construction's Gem of Tanzania was not all it seemed]</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pylx4 Nick Lawrence investigates the shocking criminal past of some Midlands taxi drivers]</ref> Nick Meir now works in the private sector as a communication and media consultant.<ref name="Gorkana"/><ref>[https://nickmeir.com Nick Meir's official website]</ref>
==Early life== Meir was born and brought up in Halifax, West Yorkshire. He went to the Heath Grammar School. He later attended Bretton Hall College of Education where he also studied a Drama and Theatre Studies course. Meir graduated with a B.A. degree in Arts.<ref name="Nick Meir"/> He was an English teacher in an upper school for four years in Northamptonshire.
==Broadcasting== Meir started out at Northants 96 on the breakfast show in the early 90s, before moving onto presenting the breakfast show at Chiltern FM in Dunstable with [http://www.hereward.co.uk/Article.asp?id=554102&spid=16367 Andy Gelder] and Sarah Isherwood in 1996, he then hosted BBC Three Counties' breakfast show, from October 2001. It won a Sony Award Silver in 2003 for a feature on homeless people.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3012217.stm Sony Radio Awards 2003: Winners]</ref> In 2008, he was a recipient of the EDF Energy East of England Media Awards' title '' BBC TV East Television Journalist of the Year''.<ref>[https://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/2008/news/see-the-winners-celebrate-at-the-edf-energy-east-of-england-media-awards/ HTFP: See the winners celebrate at the EDF Energy East of England Media Awards]</ref> In 2014, Meir established ''A House Called Alice'', a consultancy specializing in counsel and communication improvement for companies and executives.<ref name="Gorkana"/>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/east/archive Inside Out] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20050308011257/http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/read_this/2002/12/nick_thursday.shtml Nick spends a week on the streets in 2002] * [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7001445.stm Nick investigates MacAnthony Realty International AKA MRI Construction]
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lawrence, Nick}} Category:BBC newsreaders and journalists Category:People from Halifax, West Yorkshire Category:Living people Category:Alumni of Bretton Hall College Category:People educated at The Crossley Heath School Category:1966 births