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About Sky News

Breaking news screenshots.Valued for its fairness, balance and journalistic objectivity by both viewers and regulators, Sky News brings a fresh approach to news broadcasting through innovative coverage of high-profile events, plus dedicated strands allowing the channel to respond to various audience demands at different times of day – while always retaining the ability to switch instantly to breaking news.

Sky News employs more than 500 dedicated staff worldwide, based at the state-of-the-art Sky News Centre [link opens in a new window] in London as well as at bureaux across the globe. This, along with alliances with major broadcasters around the world, ensures that the services covers breaking news whenever – and wherever – it happens.

For Sky News, interactivity and engagement with the audience are key. Viewers around the globe can e-mail, SMS or send a video message to Sky News, participate in discussions on the sky.com/news website or, on the UK Sky satellite platform, send a message via their set-top box.

Sky News has a team of experienced and often award-winning correspondents [link opens in a new window], including Adam Boulton as Political Editor and Jeremy Thompson as anchor of Sky's flagship weekday Live at 5 programme.

Recent notable award wins for Sky News include:

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  • UK Royal Television Society News Channel of the Year for six out of the last seven years, plus winner of BAFTA in 2008 for Best News Coverage and News Service of the Year at the Broadcast Digital Awards
  • Alex Crawford won Silver World Medal for Best News Correspondent/Reporter at the New York Festivals and Television Journalist of the Year at the UK Royal Television Society Awards, both in February 2008
  • 7/7 Bombing coverage: Sky News won an International Emmy Award and Best Coverage of a Single News Event at the Association of International Broadcasting Awards in 2006 (see picture, right)
  • Foreign Press Association Journalist of the Year 2006 - Dominic Waghorn – and Story of the Year - China: Human Rights
  • Golden Nymph Awards at Monte-Carlo TV Festival: Best 24-hour News Programme (2006) andCatherine Jacobs won Best News Story of the Year for Bangladesh ship-breaking yards (2007)
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