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Sky News delivers breaking news, headlines and top stories from business, politics, entertainment and more in the UK and worldwide.  Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation. Sky News is distributed via a radio news service, and through online channels.

Sky News Worldwide News Channel Fact Sheet

Channel Search Volume: 9,900

Language(s): English

Country: United Kingdom

Slogan: The home of independent news

Owner: Sky Group (Comcast)

Headquarters: 

Key Poeple: John Ryley (Head of Sky News) 

Launched: 5 February 1989

No. Of Employees: 31,000

Visit Website: https://news.sky.com

Official live stream: https://news.sky.com/watch-live

Contact mail: news@skynews.com

Contact number: 0333 7591 018 (UK) or 0818719819 (Republic of Ireland)

Career: https://careers.sky.com

App for windows 10: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/world-sky-news/9pk2x78s4033

App for mac: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sky-news-breaking-uk-world/id316391924

App for android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&hl=en_US&gl=US

Female Anchors: Alison Comyn, Anna Botting, Anna Jones

Male Anchors: Adam Boulton, Barry Weir, Dermot Murnaghan

Political Reporters: Rob Powell, Kate McCann

Awards: 

  • Sky News won BAFTA awards for coverage of the 11 September 2001 attacks and the 2002 Soham murders.
  • Sky News's coverage of the 7 July 2005 London bombings won the 2006 International Emmy for Breaking News award. The coverage was commended as "fast and accurate".
  • In June 2007, Sky News was named Best News Channel at the Broadcast Digital Channel Awards. It beat several other national and international broadcasters, including Al Jazeera English and the BBC.
  • The channel won a BAFTA Award in the News Category on 10 May 2015, for Alex Crawford's coverage of the 2014 Ebola crisis.
  • In 2018, Sky News was named Royal Television Society News Channel of the Year, the eleventh time the channel had won the award.
  • Sky News won a BAFTA Award in the News Category on 13 May 2018 for "The Rohingya Crisis". Special Correspondent Alex Crawford, cameraman Martin Smith and producer Neville Lazarus travelled into Myanmar to bring a first-hand report of what was happening in Rakhine State. The same programme also won an International Emmy Award for News in October 2018.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews

Twitter: https://twitter.com/SkyNews

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews

Newsletter Subscribe: https://www.skynews.com.au/newsletters

Review: 16 votes on Glassdoor

Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Covid 19 updates: https://news.sky.com/topic/covid-19-8518