Niels Heithuis

Niels Heithuis (born 4 June 1972, Zaandam, Netherlands) is a Dutch journalist and radio presenter. Currently, he hosts an investigative news show on NPO Radio 1^[1] and weekend breakfast on classical radio NPO Radio 4.^[2] He won the 2008 Marconi Award [nl], an industry prize for best radio program.

Niels Heithuis

In the 90's, Niels Heithuis worked as a reporter and presenter for the Dutch branch of Classic FM. From 2000 he was an investigative reporter for public broadcaster VARA.^[3]

Later in the decade he joined the commercial news station BNR Nieuwsradio, where he hosted the political weekend talk show, De Lobby.^[4] At the same time he was a news reporter for the station covering, inter alia, the murder of Theo van Gogh, the Hofstad terrorist group and the first anniversary^[5] of the Haiti earthquake. In 2007 he became the presenter of the evening drive time current affairs program On the Move [nl]. The show broadcast live from the USA during the 2008 elections. He left the station in 2011 and continued to be a freelance journalist for radio and television.^[6]