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4 Sky News HD10 First for breaking news14 Television news20 Online news24 Mobile news26 Radio news

32 Reporting the UK36 Reporting the world42 Politics44 Business48 Sport50 Showbiz

52 Weather54 Five News56 Live From Studio Five

Sky News is an unrivalled, world class, breaking news service with a spirit of innovation that keeps us ahead of our rivals – and a spirit of independence which inspires us to challenge the status quo.

And now with Sky News HD, we have a cutting-edge, High Definition news channel befitting the 21st century, and delivering a quality of service nobody else can provide.We are a commercial broadcaster with the passion and bravery to push the boundaries to help our viewers get a sharp picture of what’s happening in the world.

In 2009, Sky News began a campaign for a televised Leaders’ Debate in which all three main party leaders agreed to take part, transforming the way general elections are held in the UK. And my next challenge to the establishment is to launch a campaign to get cameras into court to demystify the judicial process.

We are first for breaking news, not just for ten million monthly viewers on television, but for many millions more online, on radio and – increasingly – on mobile phones, where our grasp of both technology and trends will allow us to connect people with Sky News even when they’re on the move.

We’ve made the news ourselves in 2010 by launching the first UK news service in HD with sharper pictures and enhanced services for HD viewers. It’s an innovation which clearly defines Sky’s strengths, our passion and our restless pursuit to be first and to be the best. I hope our viewers will enjoy the experience.

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The nerve centre of Sky News – the fi rst UK news channel to broadcast in HD

Sky News has broken new ground in television news with the launch of the fi rst UK news channel to broadcast in HD.

Sky News HD is a premium service broadcast on Sky channel 517, uniting fi rst-class journalism, sharp picture quality and contextual graphics to bring our Sky+HD subscribers closer to UK and international news.

Simulcast alongside Sky News’ existing standard defi nition channel, and with an updated HD studio, HD resources in the fi eld and HD graphics delivering a new 3D look on air, Sky News HD delivers a clear, crisp and compelling new experience.

The move to embrace HD responds to increasing demand from our viewers for high quality programming with the intensity and vividness of HD, and follows the channel’s successful fi rst ever HD broadcast on Sky+HD and HD online streaming of Barack Obama’s inauguration inJanuary 2009.

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‘News is about human feelings and emotions. Just seeing the whites of someone’s eyes is very revealing. The detail is stunning.’John Ryley

News is also about the drama of human emotion: from the passion of a political speech and the anger of protestors, to the joyful crowds at ceremonial events. Sky News HD is an opportunity to bring our viewers much closer to the news.

The Sky News Centre in West London has been upgraded to provide HD broadcast capability, and Sky News production teams have undertaken dedicated training, to get the most from HD technology. Even in areas like make-up, new techniques have to be used for HD broadcasting.

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Wider aspect ratio HD allows us to use the full width of the screen to show more contextual detail about the key stories of the day.

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High Definition ratioLive data feedsContextual detailLive analysis

HD Premium Panels HD Premium Panels are an innovative new way of story telling using the full picture width and full clarity of HD. A team of producers will provide live analysis from

our specialist correspondents, live video feeds from developing stories, as well as graphics to enhance Sky News coverage throughout the day.

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Since our first HD broadcast, Sky News has bought spectacular HD pictures to our Sky+HD viewers – from President Obama’s inauguration to Michael Jackson’s funeral. And now, with our own dedicated channel in Sky News HD, we bring pictures from around

the globe as our experienced HD camera crews work alongside our world class UK and foreign correspondents.

The clarity of High Definition means Sky News HD can bring the news in close-up.

The launch of Sky News HD is the latest in a long line of firsts for the channel, which together, mean it now connects with its audience in more ways and on more platforms than ever before.

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Kay Burley and Adam Boulton present live from Westminster in the days after the General Election

David Cameron and Nick Clegg on the steps of Number 10 Downing Street

Jeremy Thompson anchors live from the Presidential Inauguration

Sky News is fi rst with breaking news in new and more innovative ways than ever. With our fresh approach to news broadcasting, Sky News is renowned for the speed of its coverage and fl exibility of reporting news live.

We’ve been responsible for virtually every single innovation in television news since our launch in 1989, from the introduction of the world’s fi rst interactive TV news service, to the Newswall and the fi rst barrier-less newsroom studio, from reconstructions and verbatim stenography from the courts, to ground-breaking content and analysis on skynews.com And now Sky News HD, theUK’s fi rst HD news channel.

Our dedicated programming strands – with bulletins on the hour and regular sport and business updates – allow the channel to respond to various audience demands at different times of the day, yet each is designed to allow Sky News to switch instantly to breaking news. And when there’s a major breaking news story, Sky News presentation moves to the fi eld to bring you the latest news, as it happens.

Online, skynews.com pioneeredthe UK’s fi rst video news podcast, has introduced web-only programmes and regularly wins awards for its innovative approach to online news from interactive maps to video newswalls.

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exclusive interviewsSky News regularly breaks news with its exclusive interviews from the worlds of politics, business, international news, sport and showbiz. In 2009 and 2010 alone, Sky News journalists have conducted major newsmaking interviews with President Obama, Prime Minister David Cameron, then Chancellor Alistair Darling, BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg, the Crown Prince of Bahrain, Libyan Leader Colonel Gaddafi, Gazza and Peter Andre.

International newsIn 2009, our Chief Correspondent Stuart Ramsay, became the first and only foreign journalist to enter the Swat Valley when it came under Taliban control, filming a series of reports that helped expose the Government of Pakistan’s apparent capitulation to the insurgents. As a result, the channel won a Royal Television Society (RTS) award, Best News Programme in the Broadcast Awards and a commendation from the judges for ‘brave reporting’.

In addition in 2010, Gulf Correspondent Alex Crawford

won RTS Television Journalist of the Year for the second time. Alex has reported on a broad range of stories from her former base in Delhi – including the terror attacks in Mumbai, the fight against the Taliban in Pakistan and the civil war in Sri Lanka. The RTS judges commended Alex on the ‘outstanding depth, quality and humanity’ of her reporting. Sky News brought viewers the news first of the devastating earthquake in Haiti via eyewitnesses using Twitter, YouTube and Skype, and provided extensive coverage of the BP oil spill.

Colin Brazier interviews Colonel Gaddafi Sky News Political Editor Adam Boulton interviews President Obama

Stuart Ramsay reports from Swat Valley

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‘Unsurprisingly, the earthquake took out all the landline and mobile phone lines in Haiti immediately. This obviously disabled the country spectacularly – as well as the pressing issue of not being able to speak to each other, it meant that Haitians were not able to speak to the rest of the world. As a result, the classic ways of gathering information for a rolling news channel – call everyone we know and find out what’s happening – were redundant. We had a map, and that was it. Twitter, Google Chat, Skype and Facebook were used to contact sources and conduct interviews; while YouTube and searches of TwitPic provided on-the-ground footage. These tools were being picked up by the entire newsroom, not just the online team. What’s more, the geography of the newsroom (the online desk is right next to the studio floor) helped grow the story across platforms.’Emily was on a work placement at Sky News when the earthquake happened

Blog by journalism student Emily PurserUK newsSky News’ reports on the death and funeral of Jade Goody attracted huge interest, as did our exclusive interview with Boyzone on the death of Stephen Gately. And, in the Border Region, encompassing Cumbria, Sky News became the most watched news channel in the region – a vital source of information during the worst floods in 55 years. Sky News also provided multi-platform coverage of the Cumbria shootings, the Cumbria school bus tragedy and the Raoul Moat manhunt.

Sky News’ dedicated programming strands enable Sky News to respond to different audience demands, while all the time retaining its ability to break news fi rst.

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sunrise with eamonn HolmesEamonn Holmes and Charlotte Hawkins0600 – 0900 Breakfast favourite Eamonn welcomes viewers every weekday morning to a bright and lively Sunrise. Sunrise sets thenews agenda, updating story developments overnight and breaking new stories. Sports presenter Jacquie Beltrao provides round-ups of sports news, twice an hour, and Isobel Lang provides detailed weather updates.

sky news today with Dermot Murnaghan1000 – 1300Dermot guides his audience through the key stories as they develop with discussion of the big issues of the day.

the Live Desk with Colin Brazier0900 – 1000 and 1300 – 1400Fast-paced news delivering all the key stories, as well as sport, business and weather, and a lookat what news stories are developing on the web. The Live Desk succinctly sets the agenda forthe day ahead.

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Afternoon Live with Kay Burley1400 – 1700Kay is renowned for her ability to handle the world’s biggest breaking news stories and her skills are put to good use during Afternoon Live. Along with live news coverage and breaking stories, Kay conducts the big interviews with the key newsmakers of the day as well as persuading some big-name guests into her studio.

Live at Five with Jeremy thompson1700 – 1900Live at Five gives audiences the first evening digest of the day’s news in a fast-paced and populist style. It draws on Jeremy’s vast experience and makes full use of Sky News’ capabilities on the main set, including use of Sky’s ground-breaking video wall.

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Jeff Randall Live1900 – 2000 (Mon-thurs)Jeff, one of Britain’s foremost business journalists, delivers the big business interviews and the breaking business stories live from the heart of the City of London at our studio in the iconic ‘Gherkin’ tower.

news, sport, Weather Martin Stanford2000 – 220015 minute news summaries every 15 minutes.

news at ten with Anna Botting2200 – 2300A digest of the most important news stories of the day with live reporting and analysis. News at Ten includes a first look at tomorrow’s newspapers and the key sports results and stories in Sportsline at 2245.

sky news tonight with Anna Botting2300 – 0000A late digest of the big news stories of the day with a look ahead at the stories making tomorrow’s news. Includes the full half-hour newspaper review of the next day’s papers at 2330.

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Anna BottingDermot Murnaghan’s economic cycle Jeremy Thompson on the US election

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sky news Weekend sunrise with Mark LonghurstMark Longhurst and Gillian Joseph0600 – 1000

saturday LiveVarious Presenters1000 – 1200

sunday Live with Adam Boulton1000 – 1200Adam’s long-running flagship programme has hard-hitting analysis and interviews at its core, but also takes in sport and arts reviews and the ‘Sunday Issue’, a live debate on the week’s hottest topic.

Weekend LunchtimeLorna Dunkley1200 – 1400

news, sport, WeatherSamantha Simmonds1400 – 1700

Live at Five with Andrew Wilson1700 – 1900

sky news at seven with stephen Dixon1900 – 1930

sportslineChris Skudder1930 – 2000

news, sport, WeatherStephen Dixon2000 – 2200

news at ten with stephen Dixon2200 – 2230

sportslineChris Skudder2230 – 2300

sky news tonight with stephen Dixon2300 – 0000

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on tVSky News is available on channel 501 and Sky News HD on channel 517 and can be viewed in a number of rooms in your home via Sky Multiroom.

Sky News supplies breaking news to Sky Text. Selected Sky News output is available on Sky Anytime. Sky News is also available on Freeview and cable.

out of homeSky News is also available in hotels at home and abroad, in pubs, clubs, bookmakers, shops and offices, student bars, gyms and financial trading floors. Huge screens at UK mainline railway stations, a live text service on Virgin Atlantic planes and a ticker service in Piccadilly Circus in London also help to keep you connected to the latest breaking news wherever you are.

In film and tV seriesSky News selectively takes part in television and film productions. From Mission Impossible and Hustle to Independence Day and The Day After Tomorrow, Sky News correspondents have recorded news sequences, or Sky News has supplied footage for dramas. In recent years, Jeremy Thompson has reported on the emergence of zombies in the hit comedy Shaun of the Dead, appeared in The Bourne Ultimatum, part of the critically-acclaimed Bourne series, and appears alongside Kay Burley in Incendiary. Kay and Adam Boulton worked on the popular spy thriller Spooks.

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skynews.com is not only the fi rst to deliver breaking news on the web but also the fi rst for ground-breaking analysis and comment.

You can access exclusive content from some of the most experienced correspondents and editors, and watch video highlights of all the latest breaking stories updated 24 hours a day.

skynews.com now embraces social media such as Twitter and Facebook. And a special version of the website is also available for mobile, iPhone and iPad users.In addition, Sky News TV isnow streamed online.

We fi nd new, innovative and simple ways of delivering the top stories of the day when and how you want.

Unique features include:

Live blogs Enhanced video clips Graphics galleries A fully interactive, searchable

weather map with more than 4,500 destinations around the globe giving 5-day forecasts

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You can read Sky News correspondents’ blogs live and in real time, and can also watch highlights from your favourite Sky News shows, like Jeff Randall Live.

Following the Sky News tradition of being first to the big stories, skynews.com also regularly breaks news, and adds different angles to stories itself. Your photos and videos sent to the website helped to win Sky News a BAFTA for its coverage of the Glasgow Airport attack in 2007.

The whole team is fluent in social media and right at the centre of the big conversation online, so when anything happens Sky News is among the first to know.

Sky News online work tirelessly to bring you the latest news, using the latest technology to make your experience memorable and informative. Multimedia timelines, interactive maps and aggregator tools, which bring you additional content, all enhance your online experience. Sky News presenters’ blogs and tweets keep you connected to the news and to each other.

In addition, during the General Elections in 2009, visitors to skynews.com were able to dissect the results as they came in, controlling how the graphics showed the data to make their own analysis of the overall results.

skynews.com has been recognised as a leader in online news with a number of awards including the 2007 RTS Innovation Award and 2008 Association of Publishers Award for News Site of the Year. More recently skynews.com won another RTS Innovative News Award for its Afghanistan Fallen Heroes page. This is a living, breathing cenotaph where those who have lost their lives in the current operation in Afghanistan are honoured with comments and videos from loved ones and visitors to the Sky News site.

sky news is available on: skyplayer.sky.com timesonline.co.uk thesun.co.uk yahoo.com facebook.com MSN

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Sky News blogs Live streaming on the Sky News websiteAward-winning Fallen Heroes memorial page

How to get sky news onlineskynews.com is Europe’s fastest growing news website. In the UK and Ireland, Sky News TV is streamed live on the website and, if you subscribe to Sky, you can watch via Sky Player at skyplayer.sky.com It is also available to customers in the European Union and USA via our partners whose details can be found on:skynewsinternational.com/live

timesonline.co.uk thesun.co.uk yahoo.com facebook.com MSN

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MoBILe neWsthe world is going mobile The phone in your pocket is becoming the first port of call for the latest breaking news.

Sky News journalism is available on all mobiles, and ranges from simple news alerts to a complete television experience.

And because mobiles allow anyone to capture a moment, and share it – you can get more involved in the storytelling than ever before. All you have to do is send your video, pictures or words to 84501 or news@sky.com

smartphonesSky News has a free application for iPhone and iPod touch devices. More than 1.7 million users have already downloaded it through Apple’s UK and Ireland App Store. The app delivers breaking news as text, images and video. It features UK news, world news, politics, business, sport and showbiz – and you can even watch the Sky News TV channel, streamed to your handset. Users can contribute their own stories and pictures directly to the Sky newsroom. Android phones also benefit from a custom-written application, with enhanced breaking news alerts.

the Mobile WebSky News is also available on all other mobile phones, no matter what handset you’ve got or network you are on. Use your phone’s browser to go to m.skynews.com A Sky Mobile application also offers you breaking news video clips, showbiz and business news. And Sky News content – including the TV channel – is available on selected partner networks around the world.

sMs AlertsFor SMS news alerts direct to your mobile phone visit skynews.com/alerts

Sky News Radio, launched in 1999, supplies national and international news to more than 300 Independent Radio News (IRN) stations, reaching 31 million listeners every week* around the UK.

The IRN network includes Classic FM, talkSPORT, Absolute Radio, as well as Global Radio (with brands such as Capital, Galaxy, LBC and Heart) and bespoke bulletins, tailored to the personality of the station, for Bauer Radio (Magic and Kiss). For a full list visitskynews.com/radiomap

Sky News Radio is also heard around the world with bulletins on the Sky News website and on the iPhone App. A dedicated team of radio journalists operate a standalone service, but they can draw upon Sky News’ considerable 24-hour newsgathering resources, its specialist news, sport and entertainment journalists, and correspondents based in bureaux in the UK and around the world.

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News, business and showbizSky News Radio provides a feed of the latest scripts and audio, including programme packages on the day’s top stories and regular business and showbiz summaries. Audio from Sky News and Sky Sports News TV is sent directly to radio newsrooms.

SportIt also provides match day summaries from all English Premier League football games and other major soccer fi xtures are supplied by reporters. A classifi ed results service is provided at 1705 on Saturdays. Sky News Radio also covers the big events in cricket, rugby and other popular sports, as well as audio on the latest stories.

PoliticsLive and recorded interviews are provided with MPs and journalists from Sky News’ Millbank Studios in Westminster.

Major story alertSky News Radio has the ability to opt into Sky News TV output in the event of a major breaking story. It also supplies digital content – news stories in text and video to all the radio station websites.

The fall of the Berlin Wall

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1989Fall of Berlin Wall

The fall of the Berlin Wall

Hillsborough football stadium disaster

Tiananmen Square massacre, Beijing

Marchioness Thames pleasure boat sinks

Exxon Valdez oil disaster, Alaska

1992John Major

John Major unexpectedly wins general election

Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson divorce

Fire destroys parts of Windsor Castle

Bosnian War

1993Waco Seige

Won first Royal Television Society award for the Best Coverage of a News Event – the Bishopsgate bomb and Ostend tanker

Waco: 76 die after a siege at the Branch Davidian sect in Texas

Bishopsgate, London: massive IRA bombs kills one, injures 40

Czechoslovakia splits into the Czech Republic and Slovakia

1990Thatcher Resigns

Margaret Thatcher resigns; replaced by John Major

First Gulf War: Iraq invades Kuwait

Nelson Mandela is released from jail in South Africa

Poll Tax riot

1991Gulf War

First Gulf War: UN coalition forces out Iraq from Kuwait

Collapse of the Soviet Union; President Gorbachev replaced by Yeltsin

Robert Maxwell drowns, and is exposed as a fraudster

1994Nelson Mandela

South Africa holds its first free elections – Nelson Mandela becomes presidentLabour leader John Smith dies at 55The UK National Lottery is launchedThe Rwandan genocide

1996Atlanta Bomb

Atlanta Olympics bombing: two people die and nearly 200 injuredA 17 month IRA ceasefire ends with a massive bomb in London’s docklandsPrincess Diana and Prince Charles are divorced

1997Death of Princess Diana

Diana, Princess of Wales and Dodi al Fayed die in Paris car crashTony Blair elected prime minister in a landslide victory ending 18 years of Conservative ruleAu pair Louise Woodward convicted of murder in Boston

1995OJ Simpson Trial

Won Emmy for coverage of South Africa

OJ Simpson trialThe Oklahoma City bombingIsraeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin assassinatedPrime Minister John Major wins leadership contest

1998Clinton Impeachment

Won Cable Guide Favourite News Channel

President Bill Clinton admits his affair with Monica LewinskyNorthern Ireland: the Good Friday Agreement reached after nearly two years of talks and 30 years of conflictOmagh bombing

1999Kosovo Liberation

Won Cable Guide Favourite News Channel for the second year running

Slobodan Milosevic withdraws his troops from Kosovo after an 11 week NATO bombing campaignColumbine High School massacre, ColoradoBoris Yeltsin resigns as Russian president, handing over to Vladmir Putin

2000Fuel Crisis

Won RTS Award for Kosovo coverage

Sky News launches world’s first interactive TV newsFuel crisis: blockades by protestors cause widespread shortagesDr Harold Shipman jailed for life for murdering his patientsConcorde crashes in ParisGeorge W. Bush wins US presidential election in controversial victory over Al Gore

2004Asian Tsunami

Won the RTS News Channel of the Year

Boxing Day Tsunami kills approximately 230,000 in South East AsiaMadrid train bombingsUS President George W. Bush wins second termBeslan school siege in Russian republic of North OssetiaHarold Shipman, the former GP who killed his patients, commits suicide in prison

2005London Terror Attacks

Won the RTS News Channel of the Year

The July 7th London bombingsPope John Paul II dies, succeeded by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as Pope Benedict XVIPrince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles are marriedThe IRA formally declares an end to its armed campaignHurricane Katrina floods New Orleans

2002Soham Murders

BAFTA News Award for reporting of 9/11

RTS News Channel of the Year

Adam Boulton received the RTS Judges Award

Guardian Edinburgh International Television Festival Non-Terrestrial Channel of the Year

The Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica ChapmanThe Euro: twelve European Union countries start using a new common currencyThe Queen Mother dies, aged 101Bali bombings

2003Iraq War

Won the BAFTA News Award for coverage of the Soham murders

Won the RTS News Channel of the Year

US/UK led coalition attacks Iraq, toppling Saddam Hussein. He is later capturedDr David Kelly commits suicide after being exposed as source of BBC story about Iraqi weapons of mass destructionColumbia space shuttle disintegrates, killing sevenEngland win Rugby World Cup

20019/11

Won Best Innovation in Online Journalism Award for Online Pop-Up Papers in the NetMedia Awards for European Online Journalism

9/11 terror attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the PentagonFoot and mouth disease sweeps UK farms, delaying UK general electionTony Blair wins second election; John Prescott punches a protestor during the campaignUS and UK launch retaliatory war against the Taliban in Afghanistan

2006Thames Whale

Won RTS News Presenter of the Year – Jeremy Thompson

RTS Innovation Award

Won Best News Channel Digital Channel Awards

Won Golden Nymph Award for Best News Programme

Won International Emmy Award for Breaking News for coverage of July 7th London bombings

An heroic rescue effort fails to save a whale trapped in the River ThamesIsrael wages a 33-day war against Hezbollah in LebanonMassive security restrictions are imposed on air travellers after a terror plot is exposed to bring down several transatlantic planes

2008US Presidential Election

Won BAFTA for news coverage of Glasgow terrorist attacks

RTS News Channel of the Year

RTS Television Journalist of the Year – Alex Crawford

RTS Innovation Award for SkyNews.com TV

Association of Online Publishers award for Website of the Year

Won silver medal in the BT Online Excellence Awards

Barack Obama becomes US presidentWorld stock markets crash after a global banking crisisChina hosts the Beijing OlympicsRussia invades Georgia in a dispute over the breakaway region of South Ossetia

2009The Recession

RTS Young Journalist of the Year – Hannah Thomas-Peter

RTS Camera Operator of the Year – Garwen McLuckie

Festival de Télévision Monte Carlo – Best 24-hour News Programme for Mumbai Attacks by Alex Crawford

Broadcast Digital Awards – Best News Service

The Recession

Barack Obama Presidential inauguration

Michael Jackson funeral

2010Haiti Earthquake

RTS News Channel of the Year

RTS Television Journalist of the Year – Alex Crawford

RTS International News Coverage for Pakistan: Terror’s Frontline

RTS Innovative News Award for, Fallen Heroes online tribute wall, Sky News and Skynews.com

Broadcast Digital Awards – John Ryley received Individual Achievement Award

Haiti earthquake

General election

Cumbria shootings

Rothbury manhunt

Pakistan floods

2007Gordon Brown

Won RTS News Channel of the Year

RTS Television Journalist of the Year – Dominic Waghorn

RTS International Award for China – The Baby Snatchers

RTS Lifetime Achievement Award – Nick Pollard, former Head of Sky News

RTS Innovation Awards: – Under the bonnet – User generated content

Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as prime ministerMadeleine McCann disappears in PortugalVirginia Tech college massacreFifteen British sailors captured by Iran and held for 13 days

Survivor of the Haiti earthquake pleads for food

2010

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Sky News has a formidable newsgathering capability. As well as a team of award-winning UK correspondents, it has business, politics and foreign affairs units. Sky News also employs a team of specialist correspondents and editors, and when a big story breaks, Sky News presenters anchor the news from the scene.

The HD SkyCopter gives an aerial view during the Cumbria shootings

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‘Sky News Crime Correspondent ‘Brunt of the Yard’ is so often first with the news of a development in a major crime investigation that officers have been known to complain that he knows more than they do.’Ian Burrell, the Independent

Sky News Crime Correspondent Martin Brunt

One of Sky News’ best known correspondents is Martin Brunt, Sky’s highly regarded Crime Correspondent who is the envy of other media organisations for his contacts on both sides of the law and his ability to break news stories. During the Ipswich murders, a Suffolk Police Press Officer remarked to another journalist ‘Call Martin Brunt. He knows everything before we do.’ Brunt doesn’t only get scoops on his own beat: his scoops have included everything from the death of the Queen Mother to the sacking of John Terry as England Captain.

Thomas Moore, Health Correspondent, has reported a string of medical breakthroughs including a remarkable experiment in which a monkey controlled a robotic arm by thought alone. Home Affairs Correspondent, Mark White, got a world scoop by interviewing the commander of the police squad which killed the innocent terror suspect, Jean Charles de Menezes.

Sky News’ Katie Stallard interviews Bon Jovi live and exclusively from the roof of the O2

Sky News coverage of Jade Goody’s funeral

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Environment Correspondent, Catherine Jacob, made an ingenious use of GPS technology to prove that old televisions were being illegally exported from the UK to Africa. And Sky News Royal Correspondent, Sarah Hughes, interviewed Prince Andrew at 50, and his daughter Princess Beatrice, exclusively on his landmark birthday.

Sky News also has a covert filming expert. He can’t be identified but he has been responsible for dozens of undercover investigations – everything from illegal immigration to a laptop repair scam. One of his investigations led to the conviction and jailing of an underworld gun salesman.

Sky has regional bureaux throughout the UK, where our reporters are right on top of the big stories. Our teams led television coverage of the police hunt for gunman Raoul Moat, the unprecedented floods which hit Cumbria in 2009 as well as the tragic Cumbrian shootings. Among dozens of recent exclusives Gerard Tubb’s award-winning revelations about the ‘Canoe Man’ John Darwin and his wife showed how they planned an insurance fraud by faking his death and Tom Parmenter investigated the gang warfare in Liverpool which led to the murder of 11-year-old Rhys Jones.

RTS television journalist of the year, Alex Crawford, interviewing the Taliban in Pakistan

Chief Correspondent Stuart Ramsay in Haiti

Sky News is based at the state-of-the-art Sky News Centre in West London. It employs more than 500 staff worldwide in UK and international bureaux.

Sky’s award-winning foreign correspondents are based in Africa, Asia, Europe, Russia, the Middle East, the United States and Australia. Coupled with alliances with other major broadcasters around the world, the Sky News service covers breaking news wherever you are.

To maintain its reputation for being first for breaking news, Sky News increases live capacity by continuously investing in new technology. Reporters and correspondents have a fleet of satellite trucks at their disposal, enabling them to broadcast live from anywhere in the world.

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Demonstration against the military operation against Taliban militants in Swat Valley

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Sky News is available to over 145 million people in Europe alone, plus to viewers across Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The channel is also available to stream via the internet.Sky News HD is now available in some regions overseas. Visit skynewsinternational.com to find out more about the new operators carrying the HD channel.

europeSky News is available across Continental Europe on a free-to-air basis on the Astra 1H satellite, and also through main cable, IPTV and satellite operators in Scandinavia, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal and Central and Eastern Europe, with whom you should check for tuning and package details. If you have a DTH satellite system that receives channels from Astra 1H (19.2 degrees East) you will be able to receive Sky News on Transponder 111, 12.604/MHz, horizontal polarity.

How to get sky news internationally

Middle eastSky News is available in Israel through Yes yestv.co.uk and Hot Cable hot.net.uk and on a pan-regional basis through ART artonline.tv or starselect.comor Orbit Showtime Network osnetwork.comSky News HD is available on ADMC and Orbit Showtime Network.

AfricaSky News is available on the DStv platform in South Africa dstv.com and across the African continent dstvafrica.com Other operators

which carry Sky News include Zuku in Kenya zuku.co.ke and HiTV in Nigeria hitv.com.ng

AsiaSky News is available in parts of Asia including Hong Kong, Singapore, Cambodia and Indonesia. For further details visit skynewsinternational.com

Australia and new ZealandVisit Sky News Australia skynews.com.au

United states of AmericaSky News is available live online through our partners. Visit skynewsinternational.com

Wherever you areTo find out how you can see Sky News wherever you are, go to skynewsinternational.com fora list of operators and more details.

ContactIf you would like to discuss carriage of Sky News and Sky News HD outside of the UK and RoI, please contact: sian-elin.davies@bskyb.com

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Sky News covers breaking news wherever it breaks, and serves a global audience. As well as the regular coverage of world events throughout the schedule, Sky Newshas a dedicated World News strand and carries CBS News. For the inside track on foreign affairs visit:skynews.com/foreignmatters

World news, Review and Business Report 0300 – 0600 GMt Lukwesa Burak anchors the World News programme live from the Sky News Centre, focusing on the Gulf and Middle East. From 0400, the programme is geared towards audiences waking up in Europe and Africa.

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Sky News’ political output has a deserved reputation for accuracy, objectivity, speed and insight. Based in Westminster, the political team is headed by Political Editor Adam Boulton and includes Deputy Politcal Editor Joey Jones, Chief Political Correspondent Jon Craig, Glen Oglaza, Niall Paterson, Peter Spencer, Rachel Younger and Miranda Richardson, each experienced and respected journalists. Sky News’ political team consistently outperforms its competitors, bringing viewers breaking political news first. The news of the Chancellor nationalising Northern Rock, the Labour donor row and the resignation of Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, are just a few of the stories broken by Sky News political correspondents.

PMQs 1200 – 1230 (Weds) Live coverage of the weekly clash in the House of Commons.

sunday Live with Adam Boulton1000 – 1200Adam’s long-running flagship programme has hard-hitting analysis and interviews at its core, but also takes in sport and arts reviews and ‘Sunday Issue’, a live debate on the week’s hottest topic.

For the inside track on the big political news stories, go to Adam and his team’s online blog at:skynews.com/boultonandco

Political Editor, Adam Boulton chairs the Sky News Leaders’ Debate

Boulton and Co blog

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The Sky News Leaders’ Debate

Jeff Randall interviews Prime Minister David Cameron

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Sky News’ business coverage encompasses everything from breaking company news, the fi nancial markets and personal fi nance, to fi scal and economic policy.

Sky News’ purpose-built business studio in 30 St Mary Axe (known as The Gherkin) in the heart of the City, is another broadcasting fi rst.

Sky News’ business team is headed up by Jeff Randall, Britain’s best known and most highly respected business commentator.

Jeff presents his own, unique look at the major business news stories and issues of the day at 1900from Monday-Thursday in Jeff Randall Live.

Jeff’s interviewees include big business hitters like HSBC’s Michael Geoghegan and Barclays Chief Executive John Varley as well as key political fi gures like David Cameron, George Osborne and former Chancellor Alistair Darling. His interview with BP Chairman Carl Henric Svanberg made news around the world.

Sky News Business Presenter, Jeff Randall

Jeff Randall interviews Prime Minister David Cameron

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Business Correspondent, Dharshini David Business Presenter, Joel HillsCity Editor, Mark Kleinman

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Highlights of Jeff Randall Live run on skynews.com

The business team was reinforced in 2009 with the appointment of City Editor Mark Kleinman who, since joining Sky News, has broken an unparalleled number of City stories; the new M&S boss, the BA/Iberia merger, the sale of Harrods and details of the bonus plans of the big banks among them.

It’s no surprise that Mark is greatly respected in the City, and his blog skynews.com/kleinman is the first port of call for those who want to be ‘in the know’.

Business Correspondent, Dharshini David, has further strengthened the team – formerly an experienced economist in the private sector.

Joel Hills is presenter of Sky News’ hourly business bulletins. Joel led the way during the postal dispute of late 2009 and the British Airways stand off with its unions.

Go to skynews.com/business, Twitter and Sky News iPhone apps for more news and analysis.

Mark Kleinman’s blog Mark Kleinman’s Twitter page

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Sports news is frequently front page news, and Sky News is atthe heart of covering and breaking the biggest sports news stories.

From England’s World Cup dashed hopes to football fi nance, Murray’s Grand Slam dream to Button v Hamilton, and from Team Sky’s debut in the Tour de France, to England’s 2018 World Cup bid – when it’s a big story, Sky News aims to be fi rst.

Viewers were kept ahead of the game on every step of the John Terry England captaincy affair – and broke the news that Fabio Capello had sacked his captain at their FA headquarters meeting.

Sky News draws on the knowledge and expertise of Sky Sports News HD.

And it continues to break the most interesting stories from the year’s big sporting events with our teamof correspondents, led by Sports Editor Nick Powell; World Cup reports, plus news from the England camp, Wimbledon,

the Ryder Cup and the Ashes Down Under.

Sky News’ sports bulletins and programmes have access to all the major action in HD, wherever it’s shown; the main goals, wickets, tries and medals.

Saturday Sport at 1130 sets up the sporting weekend and then Saturday and Sunday Sportsline programmes (1930 and 2230) ensure you don’t have to miss the pick of the action and stories.

48Jenson Button after interview with Sky’s Ian DovastonEngland cricket team celebrate Ashes victorySky News Sports Editor, Nick Powell

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Sky News entertainment team covers the biggest stories in arts and culture, everything from film and music to theatre, opera and dance – plus the latest developments in technology. All of the major events in the entertainment calendar are reported live including the Oscars, BAFTAs, the Brits, Glastonbury and the best film premieres from London’s Leicester Square.

We speak to the biggest stars too. Recent interviews have included Kylie talking about love, babies and beating cancer; Bon Jovi live from the roof of the O2; Sir Paul McCartney on what he really thinks about X-Factor; the only interview with Boyzone after the death of Stephen Gately; Liam Gallagher on the Oasis break-up; Sir Michael Caine talking about “Broken Britain” and Clint Eastwood on apartheid.

Sky News also offered unrivalled coverage of the deaths of Jade Goody, Stephen Gately and Michael Jackson.

Sandra Bullock wins Oscar for Best ActressSky News reports live from the BAFTA red carpet

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Weather Presenter Isobel Lang explains the big freeze

Sky News continues to innovate, being the fi rst UK news channelto bring you the weather in HD.Sky News Weather was the fi rst to use the predictive sequence, where weather elements change hour-by-hour, and has continued to developits graphics.

Aerial 3D graphics of the maps and the weather, allow the presenter to guide viewers above and below the clouds across the country, before opening out to show the weather predictive sequence for all of Britain and Ireland. As well as virtual graphics with split screens, the weather team can use the Sky News Newswall.

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You can also fi nd on-demand weather forecasts via the red button on Sky News Active, and a fully interactive, searchable weather map, with more than 4,500 destinations around the globe giving 5-day forecasts at: skynews.com

Natasha Kaplinsky in the Five News studio

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Polly Whitehouse on the Five News set

Matt Barbet on the Five News set

Since January 2005, Sky News has been producing Channel Five’s news bulletins. Broadcasting from a studio within Sky News’ state-of-the-art centre, Five News has unrestricted access to Sky News’ resources and has delivered a string of exclusives, firsts and headline-grabbing reports.

In February 2008, Five News re-launched with a new studio, new look and new face. Five News with Natasha Kaplinsky, a half-hour bulletin at 1700, continues Channel Five’s tradition of bringing viewers bold, original and trailblazing news programming. Natasha Kaplinsky (left) presents all the major national and international stories of the day, with a particular focus on strong human interest items. The tone is authoritative, yet relatively informal.

A contemporary studio creates a warmer, friendlier and more intimate feel. And since its re-launch, Natasha’s show has recorded year-on-year audience growth of more than 25% each year.

Subjects of special investigations have ranged from the dangers posed by banned drivers behind the wheel, to organised gangs stealing charity bags, an exposé of the illegal puppy trade and the dark world of virtual paedophiles. Five News also uncovered the appalling conditions exposed on farms registered with the RSPCA’s Freedom Food scheme which prompted a review of the entire scheme.

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LIVe FRoM stUDIo FIVeLive From Studio Five is also produced by the Five News team and is an early evening news and entertainment show with a difference. Presented by Jayne Middlemiss and Kate Walsh, the show is a mixture of celebrity interviews, gossip and current affairs banter wrapped around a popular tabloid news agenda.It airs weeknights from 1830 andis broadcast from Sky’s West London studios.

The fi rst show, in September 2009, kicked off in style with an exclusive studio chat with Katie Price and has since kept up the high energy interviews with guests including Mariah Carey, Robert Pattinson,La Toya Jackson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Zac Effron, Justin Bieberand Kylie Minogue.

Live From Studio Five presenter, Kate Walsh

Live From Studio Five presenter, Jayne Middlemiss

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