Sky News
Sky News
Our aim is to offer readers, and viewers, across the world the complete multiplatform experience - from the written word to videos and podcasts, on desktops, via the Sky News app or our social media platforms.
Our correspondents are among the best, winning many awards – including Special Correspondent, Alex Crawford, Chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and Political Editor Beth Rigby. Our Economics editor, Ed Conway, is followed by the rich and powerful, and our City editor, Mark Kleinman’s exclusives are followed by many and even moves the markets.
We have made our product a one-stop shop, whether you are a politics nerd, a news junkie, a world news enthusiast or you like your celebrity news – there is something for everyone.
The death of Liam Payne has been one of our best-read stories this year, garnering more than a million readers on a single day. We deployed a team to Buenos Aires. Our liveblogs are a match for much bigger teams than ours. Sky’s innovative Money Blog was a winner at the Press Gazette’s Future of Media Awards Our Data and Forensics team help us deliver fact-checks and analysis on everything from wars to claims made by governments or social policies.
An interview by Stuart Ramsay with notorious Haiti gang leader known as Barbecue was also widely picked up around the world.
A collaboration with Lighthouse Reports, The Washington Post and Le Monde led to a report by our Africa correspondent, Yousra Elbagir – delivered in a visually engaging Shorthand format. It exposed a massacre in a Sudanese village.
In Europe, our team tracked down a people smuggler who made a fortune trafficking people into the UK. On the home front, we reported on the culture of abuse at the UK’s drama schools, investigated how female paramedics are being hounded for sexual favours by male colleagues – an issue which came up in PMQs.
We uncovered sexual harassment, sleaze and bullying inside the Red Arrows, which led to an hour-long documentary.
In Politics, Sky News has collaborated with Tortoise Media to deliver a tool where you can check what your MP has been up to.
In January this year we launched our Patient 11 podcast: It looked at abuse in mental health care. The health secretary was forced to demand a review. Our podcasts are available on Apple, Spotify and Spreaker. Our stories also feature daily on Apple’s top fivey. Our independent radio partners pick up our stories.
Likes others, changes to cookie policies have impacted our real numbers. However, our monthly figures show 23 million users (adobe). In the UK our website was the 7th biggest of all News sites in July. Our combined UK audience across web and app ranks 3rd in the news category behind BBC and The Sun ( IPSOS). (please see attached supporting document for links and fuller explanation)