Sky News (2016-Feb 2025)

All US culture war bullshit on their YouTube. Most of their engagement would be US audiences.

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Chris Willis is finishing up as Sky News’s Head of News this week after five years in the role. He was farewelled by colleagues in the newsroom last week. Willis, whose career spans five decades, will launch a strategic consultancy and mentoring firm with former Seven News director Terry Plane, according to The Sunday Telegraph’s Annette Sharp.

Willis’ current deputy, Elise Holman, has been promoted to Head of News.

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Former Ticker News reporter Holly Stearnes now reporting for Sky News

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GB News are copying that now. There’s a ‘GBN America’ section on their YouTube channel.

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What a mess of font styles.

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Wouldn’t be advertising that tbh

there is a lot broken with Sky News but that’s usually just around the opinionated After Dark crowd. Probably not fair to tar regular day to day reporters with the same brush.

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Simon Love among others say otherwise

Say what exactly?

They’re crazys, just not as extreme as the after dark crackdealers

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Doesn’t help that the number of options for work in Broadcast Journalism seems to be contracting on a fairly regular basis either

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Would you paint someone like Matt Cunningham who’s been following both sides of the Voice campaign with the same brush or people like Kieran Gilbert or Andrew Clennell who give a hard time to both sides?

You need to watch more if you think everyone is on the same political spectrum as Rita Panahi and Rowan Dean. A number of hosts have been pushing a Yes to Voice opinion, but that usually gets conveniently forgotten.

Last Sunday Adam Bandt came on as a guest on Sunday Agenda and Anthony Albanese is a regular on Afternoon Agenda. Now tell me why these left wing politicians would come on a channel with “crazies”?

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Because the whackos in QLD and old people out bush watch it

Former Ticker News, ABC News Breakfast and Today reporter Jack Nyhof moving to New Zealand to become an international correspondent for Sky

https://twitter.com/jack_nyhof/status/1707644416910115251?s=46&t=AGKopVUwDBXQsSK-pePFxA

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According to online guides, Sky News: The Voice Debate will return back to Sky News Extra programming tomorrow morning at 6am, after replaying Sky News’ Voice to Parliament referendum coverage today and in the early morning tomorrow before 6am.

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The interview will air during The Bolt Report tomorrow (October 17) at 7pm AEST.

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Hasn’t she suffered enough?

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For context, Bolt has been highly vocal about Cheng Lei’s plight and frequently returned to it as a subject even when it wasn’t in the news cycle. He’s done his bit to get a conservative audience who might have otherwise not been all that interested, to keep her plight front of mind.

I’m sure DFAT would have worked on getting her released regardless of any media input, but keeping the political pressure on to make sure it remains of bipartisan importance doesn’t hurt.

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Cheng Lei revealed in the interview that she spent three years in jail for breaking an embargo for a few minutes after attending a government briefing.

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