John Ryley

John Ryley, OBE, was the Editor-in-Chief of Sky News from 2006 to 2023. He was a BBC graduate trainee rising to programme editor of ITV’s News at Ten, before joining Sky News in 1997. In 2021, The Royal Television Society gave him the Outstanding Contribution award for journalism. The judges said ‘he has effected genuine change in our business … His style is innovative, idiosyncratic. His integrity, influence, and authority, colossal’. He is a trustee of the NCTJ, and the chair of the Geddes Trust, set up to promote excellence in journalism among Oxford University students. His OBE was awarded for ‘Services to journalism’. He was educated at Durham University and the Wharton School of Business in the United States.