Nick Stylianou
Nick Stylianou is a British Greek-Cypriot journalist working for Sky News. He has also worked at BBC News, Channel 4 News and ITV News.
Early life and education
Stylianou was born in London to second-generation immigrant parents. He grew up in Surrey, attending the RGS Guildford. He has a first-class honours Bachelor's Degree in English from Royal Holloway, University of London, [2] where he was news editor of The Founder, editor of The Orbital, head of training at Insanity Radio and founded the university's first ever student TV station, rhubarbTV[2]. He also has a Master's Degree in Broadcast Journalism from City University, London, where he graduated with distinction.[3]
Stylianou was christened as a Greek-Orthodox Christian and celebrates Greek Easter. He is a dual-citizen of Britain and Cyprus. He is a season-ticket holder of Manchester United Football Club. Stylianou speaks English, French, Spanish and Greek.[citation needed]
In 2014, he had laser eye surgery from Professor David Gartry (the first surgeon in Britain to perform laser eye surgery, in order to correct extreme short-sightedness.[4][5]
His father, Mike, died in December 2022, after a long battle with multiple sclerosis.[6] His mother, Maria, runs a baklava-themed baking business.
Early career
As a student, Stylianou enjoyed success, being nominated at the National Union of Journalists Regional Press Awards in 2010[7] in the student category, and was also the only student to be included in the Multimedia Journalist of the Year, Multimedia Publisher of the Year and the Newspaper of the Year categories.[7]
He broke the story that Royal Holloway was exploring the idea of a merger with St George's, University of London, which was later abandoned.[citation needed]
The following year, he came runner-up at the National Union of Students Journalist of the Year Awards[8] and in 2013 was named runner-up in the 2012 Guardian Student Media Awards for a documentary he made on webcam models.[9]
Stylianou started his professional career at Channel 4 News,[10] writing for their website and devising an innovative 'Alternative London 2012 Olympics medals table'.[11]
He briefly worked for ITV News and BBC News[2] between 2011 and 2012.
Sky News
Stylianou joined Sky News on 1 October 2012[12] as a producer on the Sunrise programme and was longlisted for the Young Stationers Prize in 2014[13]. He won a gold award for his work on the programme at the MHP 30 To Watch Awards.[14]
He was promoted to be part of the team of producers making the Sky News At Five programme with Jeremy Thompson, which won Best News Programme at the RTS Television Journalism awards in 2016.[15]
By 2017, he specialized in defence and technology stories[16] after covering terror attacks in Paris, Brussels and Barcelona, [17] as well as investigating the Grenfell Tower fire.
His exclusive reporting[18][19] on the Grenfell disaster and related building safety[20] has been cited in multiple publications[21] and resulted in the cancellation of an industry awards ceremony[22] after it was revealed that the plastics lobby had influenced UK Government guidance and regulations on high-rise buildings.[23][24]
Less than a week after the disaster, he and Gerard Tubb were the first journalists to uncover that while tenants had been promised a fire-resistant form of cladding[25] during the initial consultation over the refurbishment, council planners later approved a cheaper, more flammable cladding instead.[26]
On the night of the 2017 London Bridge attack, Stylianou reported live on the phone from where he was caught up in the incident.[27]
That year, Stylianou also attended the European Union 'Our Ocean' conference in Malta[28], where he produced a pop-up channel for the Sky Ocean Rescue Campaign – broadcast live in five countries over two days, a first in Sky's history.[29]
Whilst working as a defence and technology reporter, he covered the Salisbury poisonings,[30] Artificial Intelligence[31] and cybersecurity,[32][33] including when UK Government websites were hacked by a crypto ransom scam.[34]
In September 2018, ahead of the Conservative Party Conference, Stylianou broke the news that the official conference mobile app had a huge security flaw, exposing all attendees’ numbers including members of the current UK Government.[35]
He took time off work in late 2018 due to suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, returning in March 2019. [36]
Stylianou was by now a senior producer, primarily focused on pieces broadcast on Sky News at Ten[37] and deployed to produce from the scene of breaking news stories.
From summer 2019, Stylianou spent time in Hong Kong, covering the largest series of demonstrations in the country producing coverage fronted by Jonathan Samuels and later Mark Austin.[citation needed]
Stylianou was the field producer of a special programme in Hong Kong presented by Austin and featuring exclusive reporting from Alex Crawford which won him and that team the BAFTA TV Award in 2020 for Best News Coverage, beating BBC Newsnight's Prince Andrew interview.[citation needed]
At the end of 2019, Stylianou covered the 2019 UK General Election, correctly predicting in a short documentary fronted by Inzamam Rashid that the South Asian community in Britain would cause two key marginal seats to change hands[38]
In that period, Stylianou produced a special Sky News Election programme for the in partnership with BuzzFeed News called 'Election Social'[39]. It was presented by Lewis Goodall, Emily Ashton with appearances from Michael Spicer, Sooz Kempner, Mollie Goodfellow and other comedians and personalities from across the political spectrum.[40] The programme won the 2020 Digiday Europe Media Awards Most Original Use of Social Media.[41]
Stylianou was Jonathan Samuels' producer during the coverage of the 2020 Australian Bushfires. En route home, they were redeployed to Iraq to cover the ballistic missile attacks launched at Erbil airbase in response to the assassination of Qasem Soleimani by a United States drone strike.[citation needed]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Stylianou was one of the first people in the UK to be tested for the disease after returning from a birthday trip to Northern Italy, the epicentre of the European outbreak. [42][43]
Stylianou devised and produced the world's first major live broadcast news programme staffed entirely remotely[44] [45] – with every participant on and off-screen working from home.[46][47] Presented by Sarah-Jane Mee and featuring analysis from Dominic Waghorn and Ed Conway alongside guests from around the world it looked at global life after lockdown, winning two 2020 Broadcast Awards[48] (Best Innovation in Lockdown and Best Technical Innovation in a News Broadcast) and was shortlisted for the 2021 Royal Television Society News Technology Award.[49]
Stylianou's data journalism during the COVID-19 pandemic[50][51] charted the course of the disease and the UK Government's appearances at press conferences,[52] resulting in a comprehensive timeline of the British government's response to coronavirus.[53][54][55]
That summer, he revealed that a detailed map of the British Sovereign Base Area of Dhekelia, which was previously attacked with a grenade, had been left online by a contractor.[56]
At the end of 2020, Stylianou broke the story that OnlyFans was fighting a tax bill[57] in the European court on unpaid VAT,[58] which it later lost.
Stylianou covered the 2021 Greece wildfires with Sally Lockwood,[59] embedded with British firefighters.[60]
In 2022, Stylianou teamed up with Mark Austin again as he travelled to Ukraine to cover the build-up of military tensions with Russia.[61] After being called to Kyiv from where they were in Kharkiv,[62][63] the Russian invasion of Ukraine was launched, and he spent five weeks in the country, during the Kyiv offensive and the Battle of Kyiv, before evacuating to Lviv[64] alongside the injured Stuart Ramsay whose team was ambushed and attacked while reporting the Battle of Bucha and the Battle of Irpin.[65]
Stylianou returned to Ukraine for a second time a month later with Austin where they reported from the site of the Bucha Massacre,[66] Irpin and travelled to the frontline of the Battle of Kharkiv.[67][68][69][70]
In Hostomel, they visited the previously besieged city to hear the story of a man trapped in no man's land where he worked at an animal shelter. [72] They went to interview the exiled Mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boichenko in Zaporizhzhia and sat down with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba[73] in the capital.
Stylianou continued to spend extensive time on assignment in Ukraine throughout the year, including with Gillian Joseph in Kyiv, where they interviewed the former Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov[74] and the family of missing prisoner of war Ilia Samoilenko who was captured at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol.
Stylianou was with Sally Lockwood when they were the first people in the world to interview Ukrainian Marine Mikhailo Dianov after he was released from Russian detention in Olenivka.[75][76]
A fifth trip to Ukraine in February 2023, coinciding with the anniversary of the outbreak of the war, saw Austin and Stylianou return to the now-former frontline in Kharkiv,[77] meet injured Ukrainian military personnel in a secret prosthetics clinic[78] and investigate alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces in Bucha.[79]
He covered the funeral of Pelé from Santos, Brazil[80][81] with Jacquie Beltrao, at the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023, where he was interviewed by local media.[82]
Stylianou is currently a specialist producer working alongside Lisa Holland, in charge of stories about asylum seekers,[83], migration[84] refugees and home affairs.
Other work
Stylianou has represented Sky at the Edinburgh International Television Festival on multiple occasions, notably working with Steve Hewlett on Kay Burley's flagship Leaders' Debate in August 2015.
This was the first time the controllers of British television – Stuart Murphy from Sky, Danny Cohen from BBC, Peter Fincham from ITV, [Ben Frow]] from Channel 5 and Jay Hunt from Channel 4 – had been onstage together in a public discussion,[85] and he returned to repeat the format the following year with Martha Kearney as host. By 2016 the lineup was Gary Davey from Sky, Ben Frow from Channel 5, Jay Hunt from Channel 4, Kevin Lygo from ITV and Charlotte Moore from BBC.
He also produced a session on the 'Future of News', chaired by Cathy Newman and featuring James Harding, John Ryley and Ben de Pear.
According to a story posted on Twitter by Stylianou in 2016, he briefly worked as a tour photographer for the rapper Example in the early 2010s. He claims to have subsequently been approached by Example's then-support act Ed Sheeran to direct Sheeran's first ever music video 'Family' featuring P Money. After allegedly talking about the concept and agreeing a timeline for production, Stylianou never replied to Sheeran.
External links
References
- ↑ https://x.com/nmsonline/status/168649720305156096?s=20
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Stylianou, Nick. "In conversation with alumnus and BAFTA award-winning journalist Nick Stylianou" (Interview).
- ↑ "XCity Magazine 2014 by Jason Bennetto - Issuu". issuu.com. 15 April 2014.
- ↑ Gartry, David (13 February 2017). "Nick's Story – "How laser eye surgery changed my life."". The Wimpole Eye Clinic.
- ↑ Stylianou, Nick (17 May 2015). "Believe It When I See It". Nick Stylianou.
- ↑ "Help raise £3000 to help a variety of charities that helped Mike". JustGiving.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Luft, Oliver (21 June 2010). "NUJ Regional Press Awards shortlist unveiled".
- ↑ Gunter, Joel (6 June 2011). "NUS Awards: York student newspaper Nouse nominated for fourth year running".
- ↑ "Student Media Awards: 2012 winners". The Guardian. 8 May 2013.
- ↑ "Nick Stylianou". Channel 4 News.
- ↑ "Alternative Olympic medals table: the results". Channel 4 News. 14 August 2012.
- ↑ https://x.com/nmsonline/status/1576152367686635526?s=20
- ↑ "Young Stationers' Prize 2014 – the longlist". InPublishing. 17 July 2014.
- ↑ Nicholls, Jimmy (28 January 2014). "Young journalists who 'made their own luck' awarded at Centre Point ceremony".
- ↑ "Television Journalism Awards 2016". Royal Television Society. 19 October 2015.
- ↑ "Nick Stylianou named Defence & Technology Specialist Producer".
- ↑ "Looking Ahead - Interhouse Art, Huxley, AppArt and Careers". 23 February 2018.
- ↑ "Government fire investigators reported cladding 'risks' in 2016". Sky News.
- ↑ "'Approved' replacement cladding fails fire test". Sky News.
- ↑ "Hospital trauma patients in Oxford relocated over 'serious' cladding and fire safety issues". Sky News.
- ↑ Kernick, Gill (27 May 2021). Catastrophe and Systemic Change: Learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and Other Disasters. Do Sustainability. ISBN 9781913019303 – via Google Books. Search this book on
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- ↑ "Long read: Grenfell - Britain's fire safety crisis". Sky News.
- ↑ "Archived Copy". Archived from the original on 9 December 2022. Retrieved 6 October 2023.CS1 maint: Archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ "Grenfell Tower residents were promised fire-resistant cladding five years ago".
- ↑ https://bjtc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Reporting-Power-2nd-Ed-2019-BJTC.pdf
- ↑ "London terror attack: Panic as families evacuated by police". Sky News.
- ↑ "(PDF) OUR OCEAN 2017 List of Participants · PDF fileOUR OCEAN 2017 List of Participants ... ALPHA Teariimoana GOUVERNEMENT DE LA POLYNÉSIE FRANÇAISE Ministre French ... CAUCHI Peter". dokumen.tips.
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- ↑ "GCHQ director: Salisbury nerve agent attack shows 'how reckless Russia can be'". Sky News.
- ↑ "Ethics must be at centre of AI technology, says Lords report". Sky News.
- ↑ "Five questions Mark Zuckerberg needs to answer in Congress". Sky News.
- ↑ "'Dark web' targeted in crime crackdown by Government". Sky News.
- ↑ "UK Government website offline after hack infects thousands more worldwide". Sky News.
- ↑ "Senior Tory MPs' phone numbers exposed in Conservative Conference app flaw". Sky News.
- ↑ "POLITICO London Playbook: Knife crime summit — Rights of Mann — Race to the bottom, pt 4,621". 6 March 2019.
- ↑ "A Day In The Life Of… Nick Stylianou, Senior Producer at Sky News". 12 September 2022.
- ↑ "General election: South Asians could hold balance of power in key marginal seats". Sky News.
- ↑ Tobitt, Charlotte (19 November 2019). "Sky News and Buzzfeed join forces for digital election night coverage".
- ↑ "Sky News and BuzzFeed UK collaborate on livestreaming UK general election 2019 overnight show". www.journalism.co.uk. 12 December 2019. Text "Media news" ignored (help)
- ↑ https://digiday.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/09/DMAE-Guide-2020.pdf
- ↑ "'I had my throat scraped': What it's like to be tested for COVID-19". Sky News.
- ↑ "How will coronavirus 'battle plan' affect everyday life?". Sky News.
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- ↑ "POLITICO London Playbook: 100,162 — 3-month head start — You only Bing when you're winning". 27 January 2021.
- ↑ "UK hits melancholy milestone of over 100,000 COVID deaths".
- ↑ Sparrow, Andrew; Perraudin, Frances; Parveen, Nazia (23 June 2020). "UK coronavirus: Chris Whitty warns of second spike if people ignore new rules in final daily briefing – as it happened". The Guardian – via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ "COVID: In-depth look at UK's handling of pandemic as comprehensive timeline of crisis released". Sky News.
- ↑ "COVID-19: The data behind Number 10's coronavirus briefings in 2020". Sky News.
- ↑ "COVID crisis: The pandemic year - and what was happening behind the scenes: An interactive timeline". Sky News.
- ↑ "Detailed plans of a British military base were left online for years". Sky News.
- ↑ "OnlyFans is fighting against a tax bill of more than £10m". Sky News.
- ↑ "OnlyFans could be hit with bill for more than three years' worth of unpaid taxes". Sky News.
- ↑ "Greece wildfires: Thousands living in evacuation centres as flames ravage homes". Sky News.
- ↑ "Greece wildfires: UK team help 'strained and exhausted' Greek colleagues battle forest flames". Sky News.
- ↑ Austin, Mark (28 February 2022). "Mark Austin of Sky's Ukraine reporting diary: 'We need to be here'".
- ↑ "Ukraine crisis: Actors in Kharkiv vow to 'carry on' as Russia's troops sit on the border". Sky News.
- ↑ "Ukraine crisis: Russia extends military exercises in Belarus - raising further fears invasion may be imminent". Sky News.
- ↑ "Ukraine war: The talking, tears and TikTok therapy of the conflict's broken children". Sky News.
- ↑ Austin, Mark (7 March 2022). "Mark Austin on his escape from Kyiv: Hotel staff told Sky News team 'God bless you all for coming'".
- ↑ "Ukraine war: Girl recounts her mother being shot in the head by a sniper in front of her". Sky News.
- ↑ "Ukraine war: The children living, learning and growing up in Kharkiv's underground metro station". Sky News.
- ↑ "Ukraine war: Putin is 'Satan in human form', says priest, as firefighters losing battle to save Kharkiv and patients treated in corridors". Sky News.
- ↑ "Ukraine war: An extraordinary moment of kindness in Kharkiv after eight weeks of bombardment". Sky News.
- ↑ "Ukraine war: Husband vows to continue killed wife's rescue work in 'this pointless war'". Sky News.
- ↑ "Ukraine war: Painter captures 'pain of Borodyanka'". Sky News.
- ↑ "Ukraine war: Defying the Russian missile bombardment to care for 600 dogs and 100 cats". Sky News.
- ↑ ""Ukraina nuk ka frikë nga Rusia", thotë Dmytro Kuleba". Telegrafi. 5 May 2022.
- ↑ "'We are not going to give up'". Sky News.
- ↑ "Released Ukrainian prisoner of war reveals torment at the hands of Russians". Sky News.
- ↑ "Released Ukrainian prisoner of war speak out following capture by Russians". Sky News.
- ↑ "Ukraine war: The last resident in his badly-damaged block of flats endures extraordinary hardship and says 'I have nowhere else to go'". Sky News.
- ↑ "Ukrainian amputee soldiers vow to return to battlefield". Sky News.
- ↑ "Ukraine: How this woman's trip from her grandmother's house changed her life forever". Sky News.
- ↑ "Pele funeral: Fans in their thousands queue to see hero's coffin - ahead of its unusual final resting place". Sky Sports.
- ↑ "Fans in their thousands queue to see hero Pele's coffin - ahead of its unusual final resting place". Sky News.
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