Diana Magnay is a British journalist who is currently
Sky News
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'
Moscow correspondent.
She was educated at
Wycombe Abbey, and holds a BA in Modern History from
St Hugh's College, Oxford
St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford. It is located on a site on St Margaret's Road, to the north of the city centre. It was founded in 1886 by Elizabeth Wordsworth as a women's college, and accepte ...
where she received the Arnold Modern History Prize in 1999, and a masters in War Studies at
King's College London
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where she won the Director's Prize for International Peace and Security.
She previously reported for
CNN for more than a decade and worked freelance for
Channel 4 News.
In 2014 CNN moved her out of the Middle East after she referred to a group of Israelis who had allegedly threatened her in
Sderot while she was reporting on
Gaza
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** Gaza City, a city in the Gaza Strip
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* Ghazzeh, a village in ...
as "scum" on
twitter; she was subsequently reassigned to Moscow.
She joined Sky News in January 2018.
References
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
People educated at Wycombe Abbey
Alumni of St Hugh's College, Oxford
Alumni of King's College London
Sky News newsreaders and journalists