Lewis Vaughan Jones

Lewis Vaughan Jones is a Welsh journalist and television news presenter, working at BBC News.

Background

Vaughan Jones grew up in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, where he attended Stanwell School. He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Keble College of Oxford University.

Career

Vaughan Jones began his career at the Welsh Government.
He began working in television at ITV Wales in 2005. He then worked at ITN as a journalist covering a range of issues. He became an acting health correspondent at ITV News in 2014. However, by April 2015, Vaughan Jones was a political correspondent at ITV News.
As of 2017, Vaughan Jones was an occasional presenter of ITV News bulletins. As of 2018, Vaughan Jones was a newsreader at ITN and the BBC. By April 2019, he worked at BBC News only, presenting on both the BBC News and BBC World News channels. He still appears regularly on BBC News as a news presenter.

Personal life

Vaughan Jones began wearing a hearing aid on air in 2018, after suddenly becoming unable to hear through his left ear, following him suffering from the common cold. He now has an implant, to help with hearing, in his skull.
Vaughan Jones married Hannah Vaughan Jones, a former news presenter and journalist at CNN International and Sky News, in 2015. The couple live in Twickenham, south-west London. Their son was born on 10 December 2019, after 15 rounds of IVF.