Diana Magnay
Diana Magnay is a British journalist who is currently an international correspondent for Sky News.[1] Until 2024 she was Sky News' Moscow correspondent.[1]
She was educated at Wycombe Abbey,[2] and holds a BA in modern history from St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she received the Arnold Modern History Prize in 1999, and a master's in war studies at King's College London, where she won the Director's Prize for International Peace and Security.[3][4][1] She previously reported for CNN for more than a decade and worked freelance for Channel 4 News.[1] In 2014, CNN moved her out of the Middle East after she referred to a group of Israelis who had allegedly threatened her in Sderot, while she was reporting on Gaza, as "scum" on Twitter; she was subsequently reassigned to Moscow.[5][6] She joined Sky News in January 2018.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 "DIANA MAGNAY". Sky News. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ↑ "HOUSE!ISSUE 12 SPRING 2019 - THE WINCHESTER HOUSE ASSOCIATION ALUMNI MAGAZINE - Winchester House School". Readkong. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ↑ "Anchors & Reporters - Diana Magnay". CNN. Archived from the original on March 3, 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ↑ "Oxford University Gazette". Oxford University Gazette. 29 July 1999. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ↑ "CNN moves reporter after 'scum' tweet". Times of Israel. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ↑ "CNN's Diana Magnay is latest reminder that Twitter can be a journalist's worst enemy". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
