Sam Kiley
Sam Kiley (born 1964,
On 27 November 2017, it was announced that he would be leaving Sky News and moving to CNN's Abu Dhabi bureau as a senior international correspondent.[5]
Education
Kiley was educated at
While at Lady Margaret Hall, he became president of the
Life and career
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After leaving Eastbourne College, and before going up to Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford, Kiley was commissioned into the Gurkhas Regiment of the British Army. He resigned from the Army halfway through university.
In 1987, Kiley joined The Times newspaper, where he became an education reporter. Three years later, he joined The Sunday Times newspaper as its US West Coast correspondent. The following year, he moved to Nairobi as The Times' Africa correspondent, from where his coverage of Somalia, Zaire, Rwanda and Sierra Leone won widespread acclaim.
In 1996, Kiley won the
In 1999, Kiley moved to Jerusalem where he became The Times' Middle East bureau chief for two years, before resigning after a dispute with his editors. Kiley had succeeded in tracking down and interviewing the Israeli soldiers who had shot dead Mohammed al-Durrah, the 12-year-old boy who had become, posthumously, an icon of the intifada. The instruction Kiley received to file his piece "without mentioning the dead kid" was the last straw.[8]
In 2001, he joined the London
In 2002, Kiley presented "Truth and Lies in Baghdad", part of Channel 4 television's main current affairs series,
While covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq for Channel 4, he was kidnapped along with his Iraqi helpers and cameraman Nick Hughes, taken into the desert, and narrowly escaped execution due to what appears to have been a fluke.
In 2005, Kiley made two series for Sky One: USA Unsolved with Sam Kiley and Guns for Hire, the latter of which was an investigation into modern mercenaries in the war zones of Congo and Afghanistan.
In November 2006, Kiley produced a BBC2 observational documentary in Afghanistan, The General's War, for which he was granted exclusive and unprecedented access to British NATO General
Since November 2010, Kiley has worked for Sky News, first as security editor, then defence and security editor in 2012, and in November 2012 he became Sky News's Middle East correspondent, based in Jerusalem.
On 14 August 2013, Kiley's cameraman
Publications
In 2009, Kiley wrote the book Desperate Glory: At War in Helmand with Britain's 16 Air Assault Brigade, based on his experiences as the only journalist to ever cover a full operational tour in Afghanistan, when he joined
He has contributed essays to anthologies of writing among them: Eating Mud Crabs in Kandahar, Simple Pleasures, Oxford Originals and is co-author of Journey Through Jordan with Duncan Willets and Mohammed Amin.[citation needed]
Family
Kiley is married to Melissa and has two children, Ella and Fynn.[12]
References
- ^ "CNN hires Sam Kiley from Sky News for key international role". CNN. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
- ^ Biography – Sam Kiley Archived 17 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine Sky News Biography – Sam Kiley. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
- ^ Sky News Makes Key Foreign Appointments Archived 13 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine Sky Press Office. Created: 12 September 2012. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
- ^ Biography – Sam Kiley Archived 30 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine Sky News Press Office. Retrieved 8 April 2013.
- ^ "CNN hires Sam Kiley from Sky News for key international role". CNN. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
- ^ Eastbourne College – Former Pupils Guide to Independent Schools. Retrieved 27 November 2011
- ^ "LMH, Oxford – Prominent Alumni". Retrieved 20 May 2015.
- ^ Dennis Sewell, New Statesman, 14 January 2002.
- ^ Sam Kiley: Journalist and Broadcaster Kiley.biz. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
- ^ Sky News cameraman Mick Deane shot and killed in Egypt BBC News. Retrieved 14 August 2013.
- ^ The British Army in Afghanistan: Theirs not to reason why The Economist. 1 October 2009. Retrieved 28 November 2011.
- ^ "Sam Kiley". IMDb. Retrieved 21 February 2018.