Diana Magnay is a British journalist who is currently 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]
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- ^ "Anchors & Reporters - Diana Magnay". CNN. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
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- ^ "CNN moves reporter after 'scum' tweet". Times of Israel. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
- ^ "CNN's Diana Magnay is latest reminder that Twitter can be a journalist's worst enemy". The Washington Post. Retrieved 10 October 2022.