Nick Etchells is a veteran journalist and TV news presenter, with more than 20 years’ experience covering global and local news events, natural disasters - including the Japan Tsunami, bushfires and floods - and state, national and international politics.
Etchells completed a business degree at the Queensland University of Technology, and was then recruited by WIN Television to be a local reporter for WIN News in Rockhampton. From there he moved into radio news, with Brisbane's 4BC, and back to television with Ten News Brisbane where he spent two years as a Senior Court Reporter.[1]
From 2004 to 2007, Etchells was a Senior Reporter for Seven News based in Melbourne. During this time he filed hundreds of stories of national and international interest including the Beaconsfield Mine collapse, Cadel Evans' historic Tour de France campaign, the hanging of Van Tuong Nguyen in Singapore and England's 'Suffolk Ripper' prostitute murders. In February 2007, he returned to Australia from Los Angeles where he worked as a Seven News U.S Correspondent.
Etchells remained on Sunrise as Melbourne Correspondent until March 2014 when he was replaced by Rebecca Maddern and became a reporter and fill in presenter on Seven News in Melbourne.[3]
Etchells anchored coverage of the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis from the Melbourne newsroom from around 10:30am through to 3:00pm local time, when the Seven Network's Sydney newsroom was evacuated while The Morning Show was live to air.[4]