Tim Marshall

About Tim Marshall

Originally from Leeds, he arrived at broadcasting from the road less traveled. Not a journalism or media studies graduate, in fact not even a graduate at all, after a totally unsuccessful career as a decorator and painter he worked his way through newsroom night shifts, and some unpaid stints as a researcher and runner before he eventually secured himself a foothold on the first rung of the broadcasting career ladder. He began his journalistic career reporting for LBC and he was their Paris Bureau Correspondent for three years. Tim’s also reported for the BBC and has written for various national newspapers, and he was Sky News’ longstanding Foreign Affairs Editor then Diplomatic Editor. Tim, during his twenty-four years at Sky News, reported from thirty countries and covered the events of