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Dominic Waghorn

Dominic Waghorn



Dominic is Sky News’ Middle East Correspondent based in Sky News' Jerusalem bureau. He was previously Sky News' China and Asia Correspondent where his exclusive reports have won numerous awards including RTS Television Journalist of the Year and News Item of the Year in 2007, for a series of investigative exclusives in China. The same work won him Foreign Press Association Journalist of the Year and News Item of the Year Awards in 2007.  In 2005 he was awarded the Monte Carlo TV Festival Golden Nymph and the One World Media Journalist of the Year Award, for his undercover reporting of illegal blood selling in China. He was also awarded Silver World Medal in the Best Correspondent category at the 2005 New York Festival Awards.

In 2010 he reported on the assassination of a Hamas Commander in Dubai and from Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake.

In the Middle East he has reported extensively across the region. In a exclusive interview with Syria’s President Assad he secured an invitation to American President Barack Obama to visit the country.  He was the first British journalist to re-enter Gaza after Hamas’ violent takeover in 2007.  He won praise in the press for his coverage of Israel’s Operation Cast Lead in January 2009. 

In China his team used covert filming techniques to evade the country’s media control machine and produce exclusive reports on land seizures, corruption, baby snatching and the persecution of Christians.  They used the same methods to expose how foreign paedophiles operate in South East Asia.  The British Government credited his report into Cambodia’s baby trade as one reason it changed policy on adoptions from that country.

Dominic also contributes to printed publications writing for the Guardian, Independent on Sunday, the British Journalism Review, the Sunday Telegraph and UK Press Gazette.  

Before joining Sky News, Dominic was London Bureau Chief, Television and Radio Correspondent, at FSN broadcast news agency. It was while at FSN that he covered Nelson Mandela’s visit to Beijing in May 1999 when NATO bombed the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade. He covered the massive demonstrations that were triggered, which saw the western embassies in the city come under siege. He reported on the demonstrations for networks in three continents, including his first report for Sky News. Before setting up FSN’s London Bureau, Dominic was the agency’s North American correspondent, based in Washington. He joined FSN in 1996 from News Direct / LBC radio.

Dominic graduated from Bristol University, with a degree in history, before completing a Broadcast Journalist Diploma at the University of the West of England.