Diana Magnay is a British journalist who is currently an international correspondent for Sky News. [1] Until 2024 she was Sky News' Moscow correspondent. [1]
She was educated at Wycombe Abbey, [2] and holds a BA in modern history from St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she received the Arnold Modern History Prize in 1999, and a master's in war studies at King's College London, where she won the Director's Prize for International Peace and Security. [3] [4] [1] She previously reported for CNN for more than a decade and worked freelance for Channel 4 News. [1] 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, as "scum" on twitter; she was subsequently reassigned to Moscow. [5] [6] She joined Sky News in January 2018. [1]