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Paxman was educated at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he edited the student newspaper Varsity. His career began on local radio before he moved to Belfast as an investigative journalist. In 1977 Paxman moved to London to work on the BBC television programme Tonight . Two years later he transferred to Panorama. After seven years on that programme, working from locations as diverse as Beirut, Uganda and Central America, he accepted a job presenting the Six O'Clock News. In 1989 he moved to his current job as presenter of Newsnight. Whilst maintaining his spot fronting that show, his career has diversified into the presentation of a number of television programmes, such as the quiz programme University Challenge and You Decide .

On one famous Newsnight occasion (in 1997), in an attempt to extract a truthful answer, he put the same question ("Did you threaten to overrule him?") fourteen times to the then Conservative Home Secretary Michael HowardThe Right Honourable Michael Howard (born July 7, 1941) is the current Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. He became leader of the Conservative Party on November 6 2003, having been the only candidate for the job after Iain D, relating to the sacking of the Head of the Prison Service following a well-publicised jail-break. Howard evaded the question each time ("I did not overrule him") and never gave a straight answer. This was later revealed to be a stalling strategy by Paxman on being told that the studio was having technical trouble with one of the articles later on in the programme.

Paxman is a well-known public figure, nicknamed "Paxo", which is both a contraction of his surname and the name of a popular British stuffing mix. Any kind of tough questioning is routinely described as Paxmanesque in recognition of his style.

Paxman became a focus of media attention in his own right in October 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri when the stolen Enigma machineIn the history of cryptography, the Enigma was a portable cipher machine used to encrypt and decrypt secret messages. More precisely, Enigma was a family of related electro-mechanical rotor machines — there were a variety of different models. The Enigma w which had been taken from Bletchley ParkBletchley Park BP was the site of a secret British military intelligence operation during and just before World War II (WWII). The site was named after the mansion in the grounds of which it was established. While the mansion was part of the operation, ma Museum was inexplicably sent to him in the mail. He had it returned to its rightful location.

He is also an author of non-fiction books. His first book arose out of a Panorama programme that he worked on with Robert HarrisRobert Harris is a British TV reporter and author, born in 1957 in the town of Nottingham. As an undergraduate student, he read History at Selwyn College, Cambridge. He is most famous for his historical novels. Fatherland (1992) BooksEnthsiast.com (now also on biological and chemical warfare. Together they wrote A Higher Form of Killing exploring their history. Working on his own he wrote Friends in High Places: Who Runs Britain? ( 19911991 like 2002, is a palindromic year. It also has the same calendar as 2002, including Easter on March 31. It is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 2 Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first blac) which investigated the labyrithine connections between those in power in early 1990s Britain. A study of the English nationEngland is the largest, the most populous, and the most densely populated of the four " Home Nations" which make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK). Occupying the south-eastern portion of the island of Great Britain, England entitled The English: A Portrait of a People followed in 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting to considerable critical acclaim. His most recent work is The Political Animal which discusses the character traits of those that enter into politics.

Paxman has also presented the BBC quiz programme University Challenge since 1994.