Sky News will mark International Women’s Day on Monday with a day of broadcasting led by women. From sunrise to midnight, the news channel will be presented and produced exclusively by women. Sky News’s female presenters will feature in bulletins, business, sport, and weather. Their producers will be women, as will the duty editors of Sky News Radio and Sky News Online.
Anna Botting, Gillian Joseph, Kay Burley, and Anna Jones will head the news presenters on the rolling news channel. For Sky News’s flagship business programme, Dharshini David will take over Jeff Randall’s seat in the Gherkin, and Jacquie Beltrao, Sarah Jane Mee, and Karthi Gnanasegaram will front the sports bulletins.
John Ryley, head of Sky News, said: “Sky News is constantly pushing the boundaries and we are delighted to be marking this important day in this way with our talented women journalists. “Editorially, it will be interesting to see what we cover, but we will ask the question we always do - what is of most relevance to our viewers?”
BBC1’s Question Time is set to have an all-female audience next Thursday, although the panel will include men.
(Source: CoventryTelegraph.net)
