Journalism

Broadcast journalism was what I decided I wanted to do when I was a teenager. In the three decades since then, it’s taken me around the country, from Downing Street to Holyrood to Grenfell Tower. I’ve covered stories around the world as well - war in Afghanistan, a massive earthquake in Haiti, famine in Ethiopia. Most recently, in the studio fronting Sky News, it’s politicians of all kinds from the UK, US, Ukraine, Israel and beyond who are most likely to get my questions.

Before joining Sky News, I worked for several other broadcasters in the UK, including the BBC, ITN and ITV. I began in radio, getting up early on Saturdays in Cardiff to read the news on Red Dragon FM in the 1990s. That - and a post-graduate diploma - opened doors at Independent Radio News in London and then BBC Radio 1 Newsbeat.

Being in the BBC made it easier to then segue into television news, and I moved to work for BBC London. While there I managed to present BBC Breakfast a few times with Susanna Reid who subsequently went stratospheric and remains a good friend. I’d later present ITV’s breakfast show myself, with Ranvir Singh, doing a couple of years on Daybreak, but my longest stay - in two parts - was anchoring on the groundbreaking Channel 5 News. The team there was, and is, brilliant at what they do.

The whole time I’ve worked in broadcast news over the last quarter of a century, it has been evolving. That evolution continues at pace now, due to competition from other platforms like social media and threats from critics and those who don’t like the way it holds them to account. I believe in it as much as I ever did and clear, concise, impartial reporting has never been more important.