Nicholas Newton Henshall Witchell is a British journalist. He is the current royal and diplomatic correspondent for BBC News.

Witchell was born in Shropshire and educated at Epsom College, a British Independent school in Surrey, and later studied law at the University of Leeds, where he edited the student newspaper. He has worked for the BBC since 1976. He reported from Northern Ireland and the Falkland Islands during the 1982 Falklands War.