Nick Fraser
{{short description|British journalist (born 1948)}}
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Nick Fraser (born 21 January 1948) is a British documentary producer and journalist.{{cite news |title=Nick Fraser| url=https://www.theguardian.com/profile/nickfraser |newspaper=The Guardian| access-date=5 May 2017| location=London}}
Education
Fraser was educated at Eton College,{{Cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/books/2006/jun/24/society.politics |title= Still a four-letter word |first=Dominick |last=Donald |date=24 June 2006 |work=The Guardian |location= London}}{{Cite news |url= https://www.thetimes.com/culture/tv-radio/article/the-importance-of-being-eton-cm9nbnbbwzc |title=The importance of being Eton |last1=Mount |first1=Harry |work=The Times |location= London |date=16 April 2010}} and graduated from Exeter College, Oxford in 1969.{{Cite press release |url= https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2005/11_november/28/fraser.shtml |publisher= BBC Press Office |title=BBC Storyville Editor awarded Grierson Trust Trustees' Award |date=11 November 2005}}
BBC and ''Storyville''
Fraser spent seventeen years at the BBC, where he created and ran the international documentary strand Storyville.{{cite news| title=Storyville: Nick Fraser |first=Simon |last=Horsford |url= https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/3561462/Nick-Fraser-Storyville.html |newspaper=The Telegraph| date=30 September 2008| access-date=5 May 2017| location=London}} In 2016 he left the BBC to launch the documentary streaming platform Docsville.{{Cite news |last=Lodge |first=Guy |date=7 January 2019 |title=Streaming: next stop Docsville |work=The Guardian |url= https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/07/streaming-docsville-nick-fraser-storyville |access-date=16 July 2020 |location= London}}{{Cite web |title= Welcome to Docsville |url= https://www.docsville.com/ |access-date=16 July 2020 |website=Docsville}}
Books and The Why Foundation
Fraser is also a founder and executive producer of the Danish nonprofit organisation The Why Foundation,{{Citation| title=The Why Foundation: About The Why| url= https://www.thewhy.dk/about#Who |access-date=5 May 2017| location= Copenhagen}} and has authored several non-fiction books.{{cite web |title=Books by Nick Fraser |url= https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/765126.Nick_Fraser |access-date=5 May 2017| website=Goodreads}}
Honors and awards
Fraser received the 2017 BAFTA Special Award for his work in the field of documentary.{{Cite web |date=12 May 2017 |title=Nick Fraser {{!}} Special Award 2017 |url= http://www.bafta.org/television/features/nick-fraser-special-award-2017 |access-date=16 July 2020 |publisher=BAFTA}}
Bibliography
- 2019 Say What Happened: A Story of Documentaries. Faber & Faber, {{ISBN|0571329578}}, 9780571329571.
- 2012 The Importance of Being Eton. Hachette UK, {{ISBN|1780721595}}, 9781780721590.
- 2012 Why Documentaries Matter. Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, {{ISBN|190738409X}}, 9781907384097.
- 2000 The Voice of Modern Hatred: Encounters with Europe's New Right. Picador, {{ISBN|0330372122}}, 9780330372121.
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