Jon Craig (born 1957), is the Chief Political Correspondent of Sky News, the 24 hour television news service operated by Sky Television, part of British Sky Broadcasting. He has occupied this position since July 2006.[1] He is a former Political Editor of two national newspapers, the Daily Express and the Sunday Express, and of BBC London, and has been a Lobby Correspondent at Westminster for nearly 30 years (as of November 2011).
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Craig was born in the town of Eastham in Cheshire, in North West England, on 9th August, 1957.
Craig was educated at the Junior School of The King's School,[2] an independent school for boys (now co-educational) in the market town of Macclesfield in Cheshire, followed by Wetherby High School (when it was still a Secondary Modern School), in the market town of Wetherby, in the borough of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire and at Tadcaster Grammar School in the market town of Tadcaster in North Yorkshire, followed by the University of Southampton, where he studied LLB, a Bachelor degree in Law. After graduation, he became President of the university's Student Union.
After leaving university, Craig became a graduate trainee with Thomson Regional Newspapers working on the Evening Gazette newspaper in Middlesbrough, a large town on the south bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, for which he became Parliamentary Correspondent and Senior Political Correspondent.
In 1992, Craig joined the Daily Express newspaper, becoming its Political Editor. During this time, he became a regular newspaper reviewer and political pundit on a variety of radio and television channels, from BBC Radio Five Live to Talk Sport, LBC, BBC GLR, Yorkshire Television, ITN and GMTV.
In 1998, Craig joined the Sunday Express newspaper as Political Editor, remaining with the paper for three years.
In 2001, Craig joined BBC London, and its new regional news programme, BBC London News, the BBC's replacement news programme for the Crystal Palace transmitter coverage area of London, as its new Political Editor. The capital had previously been served by a programme called Newsroom South East, covering a far wider region. Craig's job at BBC London entailed daily reporting on the London area TV bulletins on BBC1 and BBC London’s radio station, 94.9, and presenting the weekly regional political programme MetroPol on BBC2 (now part of The Politics Show on BBC1). He also wrote a weekly political column for BBC London’s website.
In 2003, Craig joined Sky News as a member of its political team. In July 2006, he was appointed Chief Political Correspondent of Sky News.[3]