Sky News

Sky News is a British rolling-news television channel and website providing continuous coverage of breaking news and current affairs. Aimed at a broad national and international audience, it covers politics, business, and world events with a generally centrist news orientation. It is one of the UK's principal sources of live televised news.

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Sky News at a glance

Country: United Kingdom
Region: Northern Europe · Europe
Kind of outlet: Television news channel
Editorial leaning: Centrist
Founded: 1989
Owner: Sky (Comcast)
Published from: London
Website: news.sky.com ↗
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How Crosswire groups Sky News

Crosswire groups Sky News as Centrist for comparisons within the United Kingdom's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In the United Kingdom, The Guardian is listed as Left-leaning, while Daily Mail and The Sun are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Sky News beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where Sky News sits in the United Kingdom's press

Sky News was founded in 1989, is published from London and is owned by Sky (Comcast). It is one of 9 outlets tracked in the United Kingdom, and one of 2 television news channels among them — the other being Channel 4 News. By outlets tracked, the United Kingdom ranks fifth of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 14 of the 66 television news channels in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Sky News outside the United Kingdom, starting with Northern Europe, are TVN24 (Poland), Digi24 (Romania), Belsat (Belarus) and RT (Russia). Opening one of them beside Sky News is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.