Prior to his work at the BBC, Hewitt lived in
Toronto and worked as a correspondent for the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Hewitt joined the BBC's
Panorama as a presenter in 1984 and was in East Berlin when the
Berlin Wall came down. He conducted the first British television interview with
Oliver North after the
Iran Contra scandal, and later wrote a book about the hostage crisis in the Lebanon. While working at
Panorama, Hewitt made "The Case Of India One" which led to an investigation into police corruption. He also made the film "Escape From Tiananmen", which broke the story of
Operation Yellow Bird - the underground network used to smuggle student leaders and others out of China. He has been the BBC's Washington Correspondent on several occasions, and has made three films about President
Bill Clinton, including ''All The President's Women
, and The Shaming Of The President''. In 2003 he was one of three reporters to use David Kelly as a source for the BBC story claiming that the British Government had "sexed up" a dossier describing Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. He later gave evidence on the affair to the
Hutton Inquiry. In 2008 Hewitt covered the United States Presidential Election primaries and Democratic Nominee for President
Barack Obama's visit to the Middle East and Europe in the summer of 2008. Hewitt also covered Barack Obama's campaign for President during the autumn of that year, broadcasting from Grant Park when Obama was elected the first African American President of the United States on Tuesday 4 November 2008 working with Senior Producer Ian Sherwood and Picture Correspondent Rob Magee He then also covered Obama's Inauguration on 20 January 2009. During the War in
Georgia in August 2008 Hewitt, senior producer Ian Sherwood and picture correspondent Rob Magee came under fire from a Russian fighter plane whilst covering the War on the front line. ==Awards==