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Sky News launches Foreign and Business Podcasts
Issued: January 14, 2008
Sky News is today (Monday 14 January) launching new audio podcasts dedicated to foreign affairs and business news. ‘Foreign Matters’ is a weekly feature from Sky News Foreign Editor Tim Marshall, giving the inside stories from abroad, and highlights from Jeff Randall Live can now also be downloaded at sky.com/news
This week Tim looks at and draws links between this year’s elections in the United States, Pakistan, Iran and Russia. ‘By the time the autumnal electoral winds blow in a new US President’ says Tim in his audio podcast ’the leaders in Islamabad, Tehran and Moscow will be seven months into policies designed not for America’s world view but their own.’
Every Monday evening at 7.30pm, Britain's best-known business commentator, Jeff Randall, brings Sky News viewers a business take on the week's big stories. A new audio podcast will provide highlights of each week's Jeff Randall Live programme.
Both Tim and Jeff’s podcasts are available on the Sky News website at news.sky.com/skynews/podcasts and can also be found at the iTunes store. Details of how to use the Sky News podcast service can be found below.
Other Sky News podcasts available to download include the latest headlines, showbiz news and highlights from Sky News’ political strand Sunday Live with Adam Boulton.
Sky News has also this week launched its own area in the social networking site Bebo to showcase some of its best video content. To view the site visit www.bebo.com/officialskynews
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For more information please contact: Fabian Devlin, Sky News Publicist
Tel. 020 7800 4341 Mob. 07920 451 045
Notes to editor
How to use our podcast service: 1. You don't need an iPod to get onboard. Any mp3 player will do. The Sky News service is compatible with both Mac and PCs.
2. Open your itunes program or your equivalent media player / music library software 2. In the advanced menu, find the subscribe to Podcast command and select it
3. Type in the web address or copy and paste the link for the Podcast you want to subscribe to
4. The Podcast will download automatically and sync with MP3 player
· Tim Marshall, Sky News Foreign Affairs Editor
Tim Marshall is Sky News Foreign Affairs Editor. He is a leading authority on foreign affairs, and has reported from 30 countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and North America.
Tim has covered the conflicts in Croatia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon. 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 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.
- Jeff Randall
Jeff Randall presents Jeff Randall Live, a weekly news strand that takes a business look at the big news stories and issues of the day, on Sky News.
Since joining Sky News in September 2007, Jeff has interviewed a range of big hitters including former chairman of US Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan, Royal Mail Chairman Allan Leighton, Chief Executive McDonald’s UK Steve Easterbrook, Chief Executive O2 Peter Erskine, Eurostar CEO Richard Brown and Chief Executive Chelsea FC Peter Kenyon.
Jeff was appointed Editor-At-Large of the Daily Telegraph in November 2005, after nearly five years as the BBC's Business Editor.
He writes a twice-weekly column for the newspaper, as well as continuing to present "Weekend Business", a radio show on BBC Five Live. In addition to ‘Jeff Randall Live’ on Sky News, he also makes television documentaries for ITV.
Jeff joined the BBC from Sunday Business, which he edited from its launch in February 1998. Under his editorship, Sunday Business won the Sunday Newspaper of the Year Award and the Harold Wincott Award for Financial Journal of the Year.
Before launching Sunday Business, Jeff was, over a period of nine years, Assistant Editor, Sports Editor and City & Business Editor on the Sunday Times. He was also a Director of Times Newspapers (1994-95).
His awards for journalism include: Harold Wincott Award for Business Broadcaster, 2004; Communicator of the Year, 2004; Sony Gold Radio Award for Best Sports Broadcast, 2003; Best Business Broadcast Prize at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards, 2003; Decade of Excellence Prize at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards, 2003 ; London Press Club's Business Journalist of the Year Award, 2000; and Financial Journalist of the Year, 1991.
He was educated at the Royal Liberty Grammar School in Romford, Essex and the University of Nottingham (BA Economics). He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Anglia Ruskin University in 2001 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Nottingham in 2006.
Jeff's hobbies include golf, horseracing and football. He is married with one daughter. He was born on 3 October 1954 in London.
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