Sky News restructures leadership team

Ella Sagar

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February 27, 2023

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1 minute

In brief: David Rhodes and Jonathan Levy have been appointed to a new Sky News Group leadership structure.

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Ella Sagar Ella Sagar is a reporter for The Media Leader and leads our audio and out-of-home coverage. She joined in September 2021 and has a gold standard NCTJ. She previously wrote for the South West Londoner, Ealing Times, and The Hillingdon Times. At the University of Leeds, she received a First Class Honours Degree in French and Spanish with distinction in speaking and during her time there regularly presented radio shows on Leeds Student Radio, wrote for the student paper The Gryphon and was editor of Her Campus Leeds.

David Rhodes and Jonathan Levy have been appointed to a new Sky News Group leadership structure.

Rhodes will become executive chairman for Sky News Group and be responsible for Sky News’ services across the EMEA region. He will focus on the “development of a long-term commercial strategy” for Sky News UK and TG24 in Italy, and report to Cecile Frot-Coutaz, CEO of Sky Studios.

Rhodes first joined Sky as group director of international business development from News UK in 2021. He spent eight years as president of CBS News and has also held leadership and advisory positions at Bloomberg Television, the LA Times, Spotify, and BCG.

Levy has been promoted to managing director and executive editor of Sky News UK. He has been director of newsgathering and operations at Sky since 2011 and was previously head of politics.