Mark Stone (journalist)

Mark Stone is the Asia Correspondent of Sky News, the 24-hour television news service operated by Sky Television, part of British Sky Broadcasting. He is based in Beijing in China, and has occupied his current position since late 2012.^[1]

Education

Cheltenham College

He was educated at Cheltenham College and the University of East Anglia (BA, 2001).

Life and career

Stone joined ABC News, the news service of the American Broadcasting Company, in 2002, as a producer. Between 2003-04, he spent a year living in Baghdad, and reported on the capture of Saddam Hussein and the growing insurgency in Iraq. He and his team were awarded an Emmy for their coverage of the war.

Stone joined Sky News in 2005 and became a reporter in 2007. He became a Sky News Correspondent in early 2012 before moving to his current position in late 2012.

Stone has reported from a wide number of locations in Britain and around the world, from the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya to the 2011 riots in London. He was one of the first British journalists to ‘embed’ with the British Army in Afghanistan's Helmand Province in July 2006, and the first journalist to provide an eyewitness report from inside the terminal of Glasgow Airport following the terrorist attack in June 2007. He met the former KGB spy, Alexander Litvinenko in London, two weeks before he was poisoned. He covered Mr. Litvinenko’s death and its wider implications in detail. In 2011, he spent 6 weeks reporting extensively from Libya on the uprising against Muammar Gaddafi, the NATO humanitarian intervention and the subsequent death of Muammar Gaddafi at the hands of his own people. He is one of a small number of journalists to have attended almost every session of Britain's Iraq Inquiry giving him an extensive knowledge of the war in Iraq and the decisions behind it.

In August 2011, Stone played a widely reported and important role in Sky News coverage of the London riots. Using an iPhone, rather than relying upon the usual accompaniment of a professional television crew, he recorded scenes of arson and his own confrontation with looters across the capital, which both led Sky News bulletins and were covered widely by broadcasters around the world. In one confrontation, near London's Clapham Junction, he asked a looter whether he was "proud" of what he was doing. Online, within 24 hours, his videos had been viewed by nearly a million people. He was nominated and shortlisted for an award by the Royal Television Society for his innovative coverage of the riots, and was praised in the media for his handling of the news coverage. ^[2][3][4]

Awards

Stone and his ABC News team were awarded an Emmy in 2004 for their coverage of the Iraq War.

Family

Stone is married, and he and his wife Millie now live in Beijing (formerly in London).

References

External links

• Mark Stone on Twitter
• Mark Stone on Journalisted