Sky News Australia has announced a further expansion of the SkyNews.com.au team and increased investment in its exclusive digital editorial offering.
New to the roster of existing commentators on-air and online across SkyNews.com.au are international newsmakers Megyn Kelly, Nigel Farage and Douglas Murray who have all joined as contributors.
The recent announcement of Piers Morgan’s new global nightly show Piers Morgan Uncensored has also seen his UK column of the same name published on SkyNews.com.au.
Joe Hildebrand, Des Houghton, Gemma Tognini and Caroline Di Russo have also joined the network’s roster of columnists for SkyNews.com.au.
Sky News head of digital, Tim Love, said “Sky News Digital has enjoyed more than five years of successive growth, which is an impressive outcome against the backdrop of competitor outlets reducing costs. With more people in Australia and around the world accessing Sky News Australia content than ever before, we are looking forward to entering the next stage of the network’s digital expansion by introducing new senior journalists and commentators across both our digital video and written journalism businesses.”
Sky News Australia has also announced an expansion of its digital team and a string of new appointments.
Charlie Coe joins the company in the newly created role of Commissioning Editor, SkyNews.com.au. Coe manages a network of expert commentators and news-breakers to support the channel’s in-house team and provide analytical breakdowns of major stories.
Zoe Zaczek has been promoted within the team to Deputy Editor and manages the team of reporters who write exclusive SkyNews.com.au stories.
Miriah Davis joins the team as a digital reporter, and Joe Huitson has been promoted from Digital Producer covering Sky News Australia’s video output, to Digital Reporter where he will write original articles for SkyNews.com.au.
The team of Digital Producers has added Demi Ball and Jeremy Blades to the network selecting and publishing more video content from the channel to distribute across the network’s suite of online assets including SkyNews.com.au, Facebook, YouTube and Sky News on Flash.
Sky News digital editor Jack Houghton said the appointments would drive further growth across SkyNews.com.au and video platforms.
Houghton said: “Our audiences now demand journalists tell stories across multiple mediums, combining long-form videos with written content and these appointments will ensure Sky News Australia keeps more people informed than ever before.”
SkyNews.com.au recently relaunched nin months ago and is delivering a readership of 2.8 million on average each month.
The new SkyNews.com.au website was built from the ground-up on News Corp Australia’s technical infrastructure and has joined the network’s publishing and ad-sales tech stack.