Sky News

Sky News is a British 24-hour television news channel launched in 1989 as part of Rupert Murdoch's Sky broadcast empire. It is now owned by Comcast/NBCUniversal following the 2018 acquisition of the Sky group from Fox. Sky News operates as an editorially independent broadcaster under a licence condition and is regarded as one of the UK's two primary rolling news channels alongside BBC News. Its security editor Deborah Haynes conducted the interview with Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, the UK's Chief of the Defence Staff, in April 2026 in which Knighton announced Britain was rebuilding its Government War Book — a Cold War-era civil mobilisation framework abandoned in the early 2000s. The interview was one of the most significant on-record statements about UK war preparedness to emerge from the conflict period.

Sky News has maintained a substantial international reporting operation and is available across Europe, the Middle East and Australia through both broadcast and digital platforms. During the Russia-Ukraine war it has been a significant distribution channel for both Ukrainian government statements and independent frontline reporting, carrying live coverage of major developments. The channel's reach extends through Sky News Arabia to Arabic-language audiences.

In the context of the Iran conflict (2026), Sky News was also a platform for conflicting US administration statements on tanker escort readiness — Treasury Secretary Bessent told Sky News that convoy escorts would happen "as soon as militarily possible" in a statement directly contradictory to Energy Secretary Wright's simultaneous claim that the US was "simply not ready" for tanker escort operations through the Strait of Hormuz.