Nick Wallis Biog
Nick is an international award-winning broadcast journalist who has recently pivoted to writing books. He is widely regarded as the country’s leading expert on the Post Office Horizon IT scandal, which saw more than 600 innocent Post Office workers given criminal convictions on the basis of faulty IT evidence. In recent years he has taken an interest in Johnny Depp’s legal travails, covering the movie star's epic defamation action against The Sun newspaper at the High Court in London, before flying to Virginia in 2022 to report on Depp's case against his former wife, Amber Heard. In 2021 Nick published The Great Post Office Scandal: the fight to expose a multimillion pound IT disaster which put innocent people in jail and in May 2023 he will publish Depp v Heard: the unreal story.
Nick has produced, presented and consulted on three Panorama episodes about the Post Office scandal. He is also a consultant on the forthcoming ITV Drama, provisionally titled Mr Bates vs The Post Office. He is the presenter and co-writer of the award-winning BBC Radio 4 series The Great Post Office Trial, and was commissioned by Radio 4 to co-write and present The Case of the Brillante Virtuoso, a documentary about one of the largest maritime frauds in history.
Nick started his career as a journalist at BBC Oxford. In 2001 he moved to BBC Three to be part of the channel’s expanding news service. In 2004 he joined Radio 1’s Newsbeat as a reporter. Nick then became a freelance presenter for BBC Radio 5 Live, regularly covering for Richard Bacon and Stephen Nolan.
In 2008 Nick started reporting for Channel 5 News. In 2009 he was lured back to radio with the offer to present the BBC Surrey breakfast show. It was here Nick first picked up the Post Office story, after speaking to a cab driver who said his pregnant wife had been sent to prison for a crime she didn’t commit.
In 2013 Nick began fronting Channel 5’s long-running series Criminals: Caught on Camera, working with police and council surveillance teams and confronting criminals. In 2014 he started reporting for BBC1’s The One Show, doorstepping several unsavoury characters and regularly popping up in the studio for live chats. In 2015 he became a regular ITV national news reporter.
Nick’s is an experienced panel moderator, live events presenter and host (including awards ceremonies). He enjoys working with a variety of corporate clients.
