Stuart Ramsay
Stuart Ramsay | |
|---|---|
| Alma mater | University of East Anglia |
| Occupation | Foreign correspondent |
| Employer | Sky News |
Stuart Ramsay (Porthcawl, 18 may 1964) is a British journalist who is currently Sky News’ Chief Correspondent.[1] He is Sky's longest serving foreign correspondent.[2]
He was born 18 may 1964. He graduated from the University of East Anglia in 1985.[3] He received an Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law from his alma mater in 2018.[3]
He has won two Emmy Awards, received four BAFTA nominations, a Monte Carlo Film Award Golden Nymph, London Press Club's Journalist of the Year and three Royal Television Society awards.
Activities
[edit]In August 2016 Stuart Ramsay reported an arms trading investigation for the Sky News Channel.[4]
During the Battle of Mosul, Ramsay was directly next to an ISIL VBIED which exploded while he and his cameraman were recording footage from an Iraqi drone dropping grenades onto ISIL positions. They were unharmed, however upwards of 20-30 Iraqi soldiers may have been killed, as well as multiple vehicles including a Humvee and a main battle tank being destroyed.
In March 2020, he was the first TV journalist to report from inside a hospital hard hit by Italy's coronavirus pandemic, conducting his video tour of a badly overcrowded hospital while wearing a full-body hazmat suit.[5] The news report won the British Journalism Awards 2020 for best "Foreign Journalism"; the judges said Ramsay’s coverage of the coronavirus outbreak in Italy was “a very brave piece of reporting which will have changed a lot of peoples’ thinking” and “the story that brought the impact of coronavirus close to home”. They said his “storytelling was fantastic” and his reports “whacked the audience between the eyes and woke Britain up to how serious this pandemic was”.[6]
In August 2021 he reported from the Afghan capital during the Fall of Kabul.[7]
On 28 February 2022 he was shot and wounded while reporting near Kyiv during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[8]
In July 2023, he filed a report from inside the conflict zones of eastern Myanmar.[9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sky's Stuart Ramsay on the terror of being woken by an earthquake alert". Sky News. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ "Stuart Ramsay". Sky News. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ a b "UEA's 2018 honorary graduates named". University of East Anglia. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ Day, Matthew (2016-08-19). "Romanian investigators accuse British journalists of fabricating arms trading investigation". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
- ^ Ramsay, Stuart (21 March 2020). "Coronavirus: Italy's hardest-hit city wants you to see how COVID-19 is affecting its hospitals". sky.com. Sky news. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "Press Gazette". British Journalism Awards winners 2020.
- ^ "Afghanistan: Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay witnesses Taliban procession in Kabul". Sky News. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ "Sky News team's harrowing account of their violent ambush in Ukraine this week". Sky News. Retrieved 4 March 2022.
- ^ "Inside Myanmar's secret jungle hospital". Sky News. Retrieved 17 July 2023.