Nick Stylianou
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Nick Stylianou is a multi-award-winning British Greek-Cypriot journalist, currently working for Sky News. He has also worked at BBC News, Channel 4 News and ITV News.
Personal life
Stylianou was born in London to second-generation immigrant parents. He grew up in Surrey, attending the RGS Guildford. He has a first-class honours Bachelor's Degree in English from Royal Holloway, University of London [2], where he was News Editor of The Founder, Editor of The Orbital, Head of Training at Insanity Radio and founded the university's first ever student TV station, rhubarbTV[3]. He also has a Master's Degree in Broadcast Journalism from City University, London, where he graduated with distinction[4].
Stylianou was christened as a Greek-Orthodox Christian and celebrates Greek Easter[5]. He is a dual-citizen of Britain and Cyprus. He is a season-ticket holder of Manchester United Football Club. Stylianou speaks English, French, Spanish and Greek.
In 2014, he had laser eye surgery from Professor David Gartry (the first surgeon in Britain to perform laser eye surgery[6]), in order to correct extreme short-sightedness[7][8]. His father, Mike, died in December 2022, after a long battle with Multiple Sclerosis[9]. His mother, Maria, runs a baklava-themed baking business[10][11].
Early career
As a student, Stylianou enjoyed success, being nominated at the National Union of Journalists Regional Press Awards in 2010[12], not only in the student category but also was the only student to be included in the Multimedia Journalist of the Year, Multimedia Publisher of the Year and the Newspaper of the Year categories[13].
He broke the story that Royal Holloway was exploring the idea of a merger with St George's, University of London, which was later abandoned[citation needed].
The following year, he came runner-up at the National Union of Students Journalist of the Year Awards[14] and in 2013 was named runner-up in the 2012 Guardian Student Media Awards for a documentary he made on webcam models[15].
Stylianou started his professional career at Channel 4 News[16], writing for their website and devising an innovative 'Alternative London 2012 Olympics medals table' [17].
He briefly worked for ITV News and BBC News[18] between 2011 and 2012.
Sky News
Stylianou joined Sky News on 1 October 2012[19] as a producer on the Sunrise programme and was longlisted for the Young Stationers Prize in 2014[20]. He won a gold award for his work on the programme at the MHP 30 To Watch Awards [21].
He was promoted to be part of the team of producers making the Sky News At Five programme with Jeremy Thompson, which won Best News Programme at the RTS Television Journalism awards in 2016[22].
By 2017, he specialized in defence and technology stories[23] after covering terror attacks in Paris, 2016 Brussels bombings|Brussels and Barcelona [24], as well as investigating the Grenfell Tower fire.
His exclusive reporting[25][26]on the Grenfell disaster and related building safety[27] has been cited in multiple publications[28] and resulted in the cancellation of an industry awards ceremony[29] after it was revealed that the plastics lobby had influenced UK Government guidance and regulations on high-rise buildings[30][31].
Less than a week after the disaster, he and Gerard Tubb were the first journalists to uncover that while tenants had been promised a fire-resistant form of cladding[32] during the initial consultation over the refurbishment, council planners later approved a cheaper, more flammable cladding instead.[33]
On the night of the 2017 London Bridge attack, Stylianou reported live on the phone from where he was caught up in the incident[34].
That year, Stylianou also attended the European Union 'Our Ocean' conference in Malta[35], where he produced a pop-up channel for the Sky Ocean Rescue Campaign – broadcast live in five countries over two days, a first in Sky's history[36].
Whilst working as a defence and technology reporter, he covered the Salisbury poisonings[37], Artificial Intelligence[38] and cybersecurity[39][40], including when UK Government websites were hacked by a crypto ransom scam[41].
In September 2018, ahead of the Conservative Party Conference, Stylianou broke the news that the offical conference mobile app had a huge security flaw, exposing all attendees’ numbers including members of the current UK Government[42].
He took time off work in late 2018 due to suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, returning in March 2019 [43].
Stylianou was by now a senior producer, primarily focused on pieces broadcast on Sky News at Ten[44] and deployed to produce from the scene of breaking news stories.[45]
From summer 2019, Stylianou spent time in Hong Kong, covering the largest series of demonstrations in the country producing coverage fronted by Jonathan Samuels and later Mark Austin.
Stylianou was the field producer of a special programme in Hong Kong presented by Austin and featuring exclusive reporting from Alex Crawford which won him and that team the BAFTA TV Award in 2020 for Best News Coverage, beating BBC Newsnight's Prince Andrew interview.
At the end of 2019, Stylianou covered the 2019 UK General Election, correctly predicting in a short documentary fronted by Inzamam Rashid that the South Asian community in Britain would cause two key marginal seats to change hands[46].
In that period, Stylianou produced a special Sky News Election programme for the in partnership with BuzzFeed News called 'Election Social'[47]. It was presented by Lewis Goodall, Emily Ashton with appearances from Michael Spicer, Sooz Kempner, Mollie Goodfellow and other comedians and personalities from across the political spectrum[48]. The programme won the 2020 Digiday Europe Media Awards Most Original Use of Social Media[49].
Stylianou was Jonathan Samuels' producer during the coverage of the 2020 Australian Bushfires. En route home, they were redeployed to Iraq to cover the ballistic missile attacks launched at Erbil airbase in response to the assassination of Qasem Soleimani by a United States [drone strike].
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Stylianou was one of the first people in the UK to be tested for the disease after returning from a birthday trip to Northern Italy, the epicentre of the European outbreak [50][51].
Stylianou devised and produced the world's first major live broadcast news programme staffed entirely remotely[52] [53]– with every participant on and off-screen working from home[54][55]. Presented by Sarah-Jane Mee and featuring analysis from Dominic Waghorn and Ed Conway alongside guests from around the world it looked at global life after lockdown, winning two 2020 Broadcast Awards[56] (Best Innovation in Lockdown and Best Technical Innovation in a News Broadcast) and was shortlisted for the 2021 Royal Television Society News Technology Award[57].
Stylianou's data journalism during the COVID-19 pandemic[58][59]charted the course of the disease and the UK Government's appearances at press conferences[60], resulting in a comprehensive timeline of the British government's response to coronavirus[61][62][63].
That summer, he revealed that a detailed map of the British Sovereign Base Area of Dhekelia in Cyprus, which was previously attacked with a grenade, had been left online by a contractor.[64]
At the end of 2020, Stylianou broke the story that OnlyFans was fighting a tax bill[65] in the European court on unpaid VAT[66], which it later lost.
Stylianou covered the 2021 Greece wildfires with Sally Lockwood[67], embedded with British firefighters[68][69].
In 2022, Stylianou teamed up with Mark Austin again as he travelled to Ukraine to cover the build-up of military tensions with Russia[70]. After being called to Kyiv from where they were in Kharkiv[71][72][73][74][75], the Russian invasion of Ukraine was launched[76], and he spent five weeks in the country, during the Kyiv offensive and the Battle of Kyiv, before evacuating to Lviv[77] alongside the injured Stuart Ramsay whose team was ambushed and attacked while reporting the Battle of Bucha and the Battle of Irpin[78].
Stylianou returned to Ukraine for a second time a month later with Austin where they reported from the site of the Bucha Massacre[79], Irpin[80] and travelled to the frontline[81] of the Battle of Kharkiv[82][83][84][85].
They also met Bono[86][87][88] while reporting in Borodyanka[89][90].
In Hostomel, they visited the previously besieged city to hear the story of a man trapped in no man's land where he worked at an animal shelter [91] [92]. They went to interview the exiled Mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boichenko in Zaporizhzhia[93][94] and sat down with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba[95][96] in the capital.
Stylianou continued to spend extensive time on assignment in Ukraine throughout the year, including with Gillian Joseph in Kyiv[97], where they interviewed the former Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov[98][99] and the family of missing prisoner of war Ilia Samoilenko who was captured at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol[100][101].
Stylianou was with Sally Lockwood when they were the first people in the world to interview Ukrainian Marine Mikhailo Dianov after he was released from Russian detention in Olenivka[102][103].
A fifth trip to Ukraine in February 2023, coinciding with the anniversary of the outbreak of the war, saw Austin and Stylianou return to the now-former frontline in Kharkiv[104], meet injured Ukrainian military personnel in a secret prosthetics clinic[105] and investigate alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces in Bucha[106].
He covered the funeral of Pelé from Santos, Brazil[107][108] with Jacquie Beltrao, at the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023, where he was interviewed by local media.[109]
Stylianou is currently a specialist producer working alongside Lisa Holland[110], in charge of stories about asylum seekers[111], migration[112], refugees and home affairs.
Other Work
Stylianou has represented Sky at the Edinburgh International Television Festival on multiple occasions, notably working with Steve Hewlett on Kay Burley's flagship Leaders' Debate in August 2015[113].
This was the first time the controllers of British television – Stuart Murphy from Sky, Danny Cohen from BBC, Peter Fincham from ITV, [Ben Frow from Channel 5 and Jay Hunt from Channel 4 – had been onstage together in a public discussion[114], and he returned to repeat the format the following year with Martha Kearney as host[115]. By 2016 the lineup was Gary Davey from Sky, Ben Frow from Channel 5, Jay Hunt from Channel 4, Kevin Lygo from ITV and Charlotte Moore from BBC.
He also produced a session on the 'Future of News'[116], chaired by Cathy Newman and featuring James Harding, John Ryley and Ben de Pear.
According to a story posted on Twitter by Stylianou in 2016[117], he briefly worked as a tour photographer for the rapper Example in the early 2010s. He claims to have subsequently been approached by Example's then-support act Ed Sheeran to direct Sheeran's first ever music video 'Family' featuring P Money. After allegedly talking about the concept and agreeing a timeline for production[118], Stylianou never replied to Sheeran.
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