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Dan Rivers is a correspondent at ITV News, and a former correspondent at CNN and CNN International.
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- Dan rivers cnn s bangkok correspondent expelled from burma
- Adventure of dan rivers in myanmar cnn
- Education
- Career
- Awards and nominations
- Personal life
- References
Adventure of dan rivers in myanmar cnn
Education
Rivers was educated at Beechen Cliff School, a boys' state comprehensive school in the city of Bath in Somerset in South West England, followed by University College 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 Cyclone Nargis in Burma.
In 2010 Rivers joined CNN International 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.
Awards and nominations
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 carrying out pioneering work on famine relief in Ethiopia. His mother is Dr.Christine Woodhouse, a retired biochemist. He is married to Australian journalist Selina Downes, who occasionally presents on Al Jazeera English. They have two daughters and live in Winchester, England.