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Niall Paterson
Sky News has about 600 staff, of whom about 50 speak on camera. Main news presenters Main programme presenters Other presenters Editorial team & correspondents Politics International National Specialist General news Business and economics Sport Weather ''The Pledge'' panellists On 6 April 2016, Sky News announced that it was to launch a new show, entitled ''The Pledge''. It will not have a traditional presenter, but will instead have 9 panellists, with 5 appearing on each episode. Michelle Dewberry, Nick Ferrari, Rachel Johnson, Graeme Le Saux and June Sarpong appeared in the first programme on Thursday 21 April. The panel included: Former presenters and reporters * Dermot Murnaghan Left 23 February 2023, after 16 years on Sky News. The last Tonight News with Dermot was broadcast on 28 February 2023. * Adam Boulton * Lisa Aziz (now with LBC News) * Faye Barker (now with ITN) * Colin Brazier (now with LBC) * Lukwesa Burak (now with BBC News) * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky News
Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation. Sky News is distributed via an English-language radio news service, and through online channels. It is owned by Sky Group, a division of Comcast. John Ryley is the head of Sky News, a role he has held since June 2006. In 2019, Sky News was named Royal Television Society News Channel of the Year, the 12th time it has held the award. The channel and its live streaming world news is available on its website, TV platforms, and online platforms such as YouTube and Apple TV, and various mobile devices and digital media players. A sister channel, Sky News Arabia, is operated as a joint venture with the Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation. A channel called Sky News International, simulcasting the UK channel directly but without British advertisements, is available in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, South Asia, Asia Pacific, Australia, and the Americas. Narrated segments (which generally cover light ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky News Tonight
''Sky News Tonight'' was a weeknight news programme broadcast on Sky News from 7:00 pm. First aired on 1 September 2014, it was Sky's flagship newscast, featuring special reports, in-depth analysis and interviews. The shows last episode was broadcast on 1 September 2023, 9 years to the day since the show began History and Broadcasts From 21 April 2016, Sky News ended the show at 8 pm on Thursday to make room for the debate show ''The Pledge'', which was axed in 2020, meaning ''Sky News Tonight'' regained this full slot. From 26 September 2016, as part of a new schedule change, Dermot Murnaghan has presented ''Sky News Tonight'' from Monday to Thursday, with Sophy Ridge presenting on Fridays. Murnaghan left Sky News in February 2023. The programme was formerly presented by Adam Boulton Thomas Adam Babington Boulton (born 15 February 1959) is a British journalist and broadcaster who is regular panelist on TalkTV. He was formerly editor-at-large of Sky News, and present ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilfred Frost
Wilfred Frost (born 7 August 1985) is a contributor for Sky News, NBC and CNBC. Early life and education Frost is the son of Sir David Frost, an interviewer and television host, and Lady Carina Fitzalan-Howard, a daughter of the 17th Duke of Norfolk. Frost attended the University of Oxford and graduated with a degree in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics. Career After graduating, Frost worked for Newton Investment Management in London for 5 years. In 2011, after attending a weekend-long media-training programme in London, he left his job to pursue a career in broadcasting. In 2014, Frost joined CNBC as the co-anchor of '' Worldwide Exchange'', first from London and beginning in 2016, from the United States. In 2018, Frost became co-anchor of '' Closing Bell''. On February 3rd, 2022 Frost announced his departure from Closing Bell to begin working with Sky News in London in March 2022. Frost will remain with Comcast as an NBC/CNBC contributor. Personal life Frost's parents ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saima Mohsin
Saima Mohsin is a British Pakistani journalist and presenter born and raised in South London. Most recently she has been an international correspondent for CNN. Career In 2000 Mohsin gained her first job in television joining ITV Meridian as a producer, and later became a presenter/reporter for the station. In 2002, Mohsin joined ''BBC Points West'' as a reporter and presenter. In 2004 she moved to BBC One's ''Watchdog'' - the UK's most watched current affairs show - as an investigative reporter on consumer issues. Mohsin later worked freelance as a newsreader and reporter for BBC News 24, Sky News and ITN. She presented a debate show for Channel 4 on suicide bombings and the future of British Islam following the 7/7 London bombings. In 2006 Mohsin joined GMTV on which she covered stories around the UK and the world including the plea to free Mirza Tahir Hussain from death row in Pakistan and Glaswegian runaway 12‑year-old Molly Campbell/Misba Rana. She moved to Pakistan in 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emma Crosby
Emma Catherine Crosby (born 5 June 1977) is a British television newsreader and journalist. Between 2003 and 2009, Crosby worked at Sky News, regularly co-presenting their breakfast programme ''Sunrise'', along with various other programmes on the channel. In 2009, she joined ITV to co-present ''GMTV'', which she hosted until the show was replaced by '' Daybreak'' the following year. She co-hosted ''GMTV'' with Andrew Castle or Ben Shephard two or three days a week in rotation with Kate Garraway. She joined Channel 5 in 2011, where she worked as their chief anchor on ''5 News'' until 2015. She returned to Sky News in June 2017. Early life The only child of an English father who worked for Sainsbury's and a Scottish mother who worked for Marks & Spencer, Crosby was raised in Newbury, Berkshire. She studied drama, theatre, film and television at Leeds University, which included an internship at ITN, and undertook a postgraduate diploma in journalism at Cardiff University. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niall Paterson
Sky News has about 600 staff, of whom about 50 speak on camera. Main news presenters Main programme presenters Other presenters Editorial team & correspondents Politics International National Specialist General news Business and economics Sport Weather ''The Pledge'' panellists On 6 April 2016, Sky News announced that it was to launch a new show, entitled ''The Pledge''. It will not have a traditional presenter, but will instead have 9 panellists, with 5 appearing on each episode. Michelle Dewberry, Nick Ferrari, Rachel Johnson, Graeme Le Saux and June Sarpong appeared in the first programme on Thursday 21 April. The panel included: Former presenters and reporters * Dermot Murnaghan Left 23 February 2023, after 16 years on Sky News. The last Tonight News with Dermot was broadcast on 28 February 2023. * Adam Boulton * Lisa Aziz (now with LBC News) * Faye Barker (now with ITN) * Colin Brazier (now with LBC) * Lukwesa Burak (now with BBC News) * G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Heap
Thomas John Gillespie Heap (born 3 January 1966) is the Rural Affairs Correspondent of BBC News, and an English television and radio reporter and presenter best known for his contributions to the BBC One programme ''Countryfile'', the same channel's ''Panorama'' programme, and the BBC Radio 4 programme '' Costing the Earth''. Early life Heap is the son of John Heap, a former scientific adviser who became the head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Polar Regions Section (from 1975 to 1992), and Margaret Grace Gillespie Spicer, known as 'Peg', the daughter of Captain Sir Stewart Spicer, 3rd Baronet, of the Royal Navy. He has two sisters. Education Heap was educated at Oakham School, a boarding and day independent school in the market town of Oakham in Rutland in central England, where he was trained to abseil by the Lieutenant M.B. Rochester of the Combined Cadet Force (CCF), and received a Bronze Duke of Edinburgh's Award in 1980. Career Heap began his broadcasting care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beth Rigby
Elizabeth Frances Rigby (born 19 February 1976) is a British journalist. She has worked for Sky News since 2016 and became its political editor in 2019. She has previously worked as a newspaper journalist for the ''Financial Times'' and ''The Times''. Early life and education Rigby was born in Colchester, Essex, UK. She grew up in Buckinghamshire, and attended Beaconsfield High School, a girls' grammar school. Her father was a businessman and her mother was a headteacher. Rigby graduated with a first in social and political science from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She went on to gain a master's degree in economics and development studies from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London. Career After graduation, Rigby spent a period of time teaching English in Portugal, before joining the ''Financial Times'' as a graduate trainee in 1998. Her roles at the newspaper included hedge fund correspondent, retail correspondent and consumer industries edito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trevor Phillips
Sir Mark Trevor Phillips (born 31 December 1953) is a British writer, broadcaster and former politician who served as Chair of the London Assembly from 2000 to 2001 and from 2002 to 2003. He presented ''Trevor Phillips on Sunday'', a Sunday morning talk show on Sky News, from 2021 to 2022. Phillips was appointed head of the Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2003 and was the chairman of its successor, the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC), from 2007 to 2012. He has been a television presenter and executive. After retirement, he continued to chair numerous corporate and social boards. Phillips was the President of the Partnership Council of the John Lewis Partnership from 2015 to 2019 and was the first external appointment for the role since 1928. Early life and education Mark Trevor Phillips was born in Islington, London, the youngest of ten children. His parents emigrated from then British Guiana in 1950. He spent his childho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophy Ridge On Sunday
''Sophy Ridge on Sunday'' (also ''Sunday with Niall Paterson'') is a Sky News Sunday morning talk show fronted by Sophy Ridge. It was launched on 8 January 2017 and is currently broadcast on Sundays at 8:30am to 9:30am. It is followed by ''Sophy Ridge: The Take'', a half-hour programme reacting to the interviews from the main programme. Until July 2018, the programme was broadcast from 10:00 am to 11:00 am (with a 30-minute highlights show broadcast at 9:30 pm). It was broadcast at the same time as ITV's ''Peston on Sunday'', until both programmes were rescheduled. From 10 September 2017 until 29 April 2018, Ridge was on maternity leave, with Niall Paterson fronting the show (rebranded as ''Sunday with Niall Paterson''). Ridge returned on 4 May 2018. On 16 May 2021 she began another period of maternity leave, with Trevor Phillips occupying the slot and the show temporarily renamed ''Trevor Phillips on Sunday''. As part of Sky News' coverage of the 2019 United Kingdom general ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophy Ridge
Sophy Arabella Ridge (born 17 October 1984) is an English broadcast journalist. She currently works for Sky News and has presented '' Sophy Ridge on Sunday'' since 2017, (and can be accessehere. In 2022, she launched ''The Take with Sophy Ridge''. Early life Ridge was born on 17 October 1984 in Richmond upon Thames, London. Both her parents are teachers. Ridge has one younger brother. Her secondary education was at the selective grammar Tiffin Girls' School in London. During her time there, she did work experience at the local newspaper '' Richmond and Twickenham Times''. She continued her education at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and obtained a second-class BA degree in English Literature. During her final year of university she did a period of work experience at the tabloid newspaper ''News of the World'', which led to a position on their graduate training programme. Career She started as a voice-over artist at the voiceover agency Hobson's International, from the 1990s and 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian Joseph
Gillian Angela Joseph (born 20 July 1969) is a British newscaster currently working for Sky News. Joseph is the anchor of weekend editions of '' Sky News at Ten''. Early life She was born in 1969 in Coventry, England. Her parents originated from Dominica in the Caribbean. Her parents returned to Dominica, where her mother worked as a teacher, but the family later returned to England. She has two daughters and a son. Joseph was an MA student at City University in London, studying Broadcast Journalism. Journalism career Joseph initially worked for the BBC in Manchester, as well as working as a radio reporter for BBC Radio Merseyside. She worked for ''Newsbeat'' on BBC Radio 1 in 1994. In 1998, she moved to London and presented '' Newsroom South East'', until it was cancelled in 2001. She then presented its replacement, '' BBC London News'', until 2005, when she moved to Sky News. During her time at Sky, Joseph has presented various different slots, including '' Sky News at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
