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Tim Marshall

Tim Marshall



Tim Marshall is a leading authority on foreign affairs, and has reported from 30 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North America, and covered conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon.

As well as hosting live debates on subjects such as Pakistan: Terror's Frontline, in 2009 he reported live from Jerusalem during some of the fiercest fighting between Israel and Hamas. He also kept viewers informed amid riots in Tehran during the aftermath of the Iranian elections by sharing updates via Twitter.

In 2007, he led reporting for Sky’s Inside Iraq week, marking the fourth anniversary of the Gulf War. In August 2005, he charted the Israeli pull out from Gaza and reported from the front line during the conflict in Afghanistan. Tim reported extensively on the volatile situation in Pakistan both before and after Benazhir Bhutto’s assassination.  His interview with Bhutto ahead of her return to Pakistan from exile was a world exclusive.

Tim now has one of the fastest growing blogs and podcasts on the web - Foreign Matters at www.sky.com/news  

Tim has previously been Diplomatic Correspondent, Middle East Correspondent and Europe Correspondent for the channel before being made Foreign Affairs Editor.

In 2004 Tim was a finalist in the RTS News Event category for his Iraq War coverage. The New York Festival has also recognised Tim’s reporting. He won finalist certificates in 2007, for a report on the Mujahideen, and in 2004 for his documentary The Desert Kingdom which featured exclusive access to Crown Prince Abdullah and his palaces.

Tim spent the majority of the 1999 Kosovo crisis in Belgrade, where he was one of a handful of journalists who stayed on in Serbia/Kosovo after the media was expelled. He returned briefly to the UK to get married, before returning to the Balkans. For the day that the NATO troops advanced into Pristina, Tim was already in the Kosovo capital, and came out to greet them as they entered.

Before joining Sky News, he spent three years as IRN’s Paris Correspondent, and has worked extensively for BBC radio and television over a career spanning 25 years. Tim is also the author of ‘Shadowplay’, a best-selling (and award-winning) chronicle of the Kosovo War and the overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic.