Nick Stylianou

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
https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/our-alumni/for-alumni/alumni-news/in-conversation-with-alumnus-and-bafta-award-winning-journalist-nick-stylianou/, 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, rhubarbTVhttps://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/our-alumni/for-alumni/alumni-news/in-conversation-with-alumnus-and-bafta-award-winning-journalist-nick-stylianou/. He also has a Master's Degree in Broadcast Journalism from City University, London, where he graduated with distinctionhttps://issuu.com/xcitymag/docs/xcity_for_issuu/143.
Stylianou was christened as a Greek-Orthodox Christian and celebrates Greek Easterhttps://x.com/nmsonline/status/1557825139?s=20. 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 surgeryhttps://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2946489/Pitfalls-having-eyes-LASERED-Long-throw-away-glasses-Laser-eye-surgery-riskier-think.html), in order to correct extreme short-sightednesshttps://wimpoleeyeclinic.com/nicks-story-laser-eye-surgery-changed-life/http://nmsonline.co.uk/archives/7470.
His father, Mike, died in December 2022, after a long battle with Multiple Sclerosishttps://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/mike-stylianou. His mother, Maria, runs a baklava-themed baking businesshttps://x.com/nmsonline/status/1591104146538516485?s=20http://zymi.co.uk.
==Early career==
As a student, Stylianou enjoyed success, being nominated at the National Union of Journalists Regional Press Awards in 2010https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/nuj-regional-press-awards-shortlist-unveiled/, 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 categorieshttps://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/regional-newspapers/nuj-regional-press-awards-shortlist-unveiled/. 
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.
The following year, he came runner-up at the National Union of Students Journalist of the Year Awardshttps://blogs.journalism.co.uk/2011/06/06/nus-awards-york-student-newspaper-nouse-nominated-for-fourth-year-running/ and in 2013 was named runner-up in the 2012 Guardian Student Media Awards for a documentary he made on webcam modelshttps://www.theguardian.com/student-media-awards-2013/2012-winners.
Stylianou started his professional career at Channel 4 Newshttps://www.channel4.com/news/topic/nick-stylianou, writing for their website and devising an innovative 'Alternative London 2012 Olympics medals table' https://www.channel4.com/news/alternative-olympic-medals-table-the-results.
He briefly worked for ITV News and BBC Newshttps://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/our-alumni/for-alumni/alumni-news/in-conversation-with-alumnus-and-bafta-award-winning-journalist-nick-stylianou/ between 2011 and 2012.
==Sky News==
Stylianou joined Sky News on 1 October 2012https://x.com/nmsonline/status/1576152367686635526?s=20 as a producer on the Sunrise programme and was longlisted for the Young Stationers Prize in 2014https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/young-stationers-prize-2014-the-longlist-6583. He won a gold award for his work on the programme at the MHP 30 To Watch Awards https://pressgazette.co.uk/people/young-journalists-who-made-their-own-luck-awarded-at-centre-point-ceremony/.
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 2016https://rts.org.uk/award/television-journalism-awards-2016.
By 2017, he specialized in defence and technology storieshttps://www.responsesource.com/bulletin/news/nick-stylianou-named-defence-technology-specialist-producer/ after covering terror attacks in Paris, 2016 Brussels bombings|Brussels and Barcelona
https://www.priorsfieldschool.com/looking-ahead-interhouse-art-huxley-appart-and-careers/, as well as investigating the Grenfell Tower fire. 
His exclusive reportinghttps://news.sky.com/story/government-fire-investigators-reported-cladding-risks-in-2016-10928193https://news.sky.com/story/approved-replacement-cladding-fails-fire-test-11240392on the Grenfell disaster and related building safetyhttps://news.sky.com/story/hospital-trauma-patients-in-oxford-relocated-over-serious-cladding-and-fire-safety-issues-10970026 has been cited in multiple publicationshttps://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sLguEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA246&lpg=PA246&dq=grenfell+%22nick+stylianou%22&source=bl&ots=baVozBdlbT&sig=ACfU3U0lbaCVWaSPFE_23BQNjOGmbZ17BA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwib7KeP_bSBAxWsV0EAHSsyBk84ChDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=grenfell%20%22nick%20stylianou%22&f=false and resulted in the cancellation of an industry awards ceremonyhttps://news.sky.com/story/grenfell-insulation-industry-awards-cancelled-following-sky-news-investigation-11147852 after it was revealed that the plastics lobby had influenced UK Government guidance and regulations on high-rise buildingshttps://news.sky.com/story/long-read-grenfell-britains-fire-safety-crisis-11146108https://www.netzerowatch.com/grenfell-disaster-investigation-reveals-plastic-lobby-influenced-governments-climate-regulations/. 
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 claddinghttps://news.sky.com/story/grenfell-tower-residents-were-promised-fire-resistant-cladding-five-years-ago-10921701 during the initial consultation over the refurbishment, council planners later approved a cheaper, more flammable cladding instead.https://bjtc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Reporting-Power-2nd-Ed-2019-BJTC.pdf
On the night of the 2017 London Bridge attack, Stylianou reported live on the phone from where he was caught up in the incidenthttps://news.sky.com/story/london-terror-attack-panic-as-families-evacuated-by-police-10903703.
That year, Stylianou also attended the European Union 'Our Ocean' conference in Maltahttps://dokumen.tips/documents/our-ocean-2017-list-of-participants-ocean-2017-list-of-participants-alpha-teariimoana.html?page=1, 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 historyhttps://www.skygroup.sky/en-gb/article/SKY-TO-LAUNCH-A-DEDICATED-OCEAN-RESCUE-POP-UP-CHANNEL.
Whilst working as a defence and technology reporter, he covered the Salisbury poisoningshttps://news.sky.com/story/gchq-director-salisbury-shows-how-reckless-russia-can-be-11327255, Artificial Intelligencehttps://news.sky.com/story/ethics-must-be-at-centre-of-ai-technology-says-lords-report-11333333
 and cybersecurityhttps://news.sky.com/story/five-questions-mark-zuckerberg-needs-to-answer-in-congress-11325242https://news.sky.com/story/dark-web-targeted-in-crime-crackdown-by-government-11325864, including when UK Government websites were hacked by a crypto ransom scamhttps://news.sky.com/story/hackers-take-uk-government-websites-offline-and-infect-thousands-more-worldwide-11246618.
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 Governmenthttps://news.sky.com/story/senior-tory-mps-phone-numbers-exposed-in-app-flaw-11512323.
He took time off work in late 2018 due to suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, returning in March 2019
https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/london-playbook/politico-london-playbook-knife-crime-summit-rights-of-mann-race-to-the-bottom-pt-4621/. 
Stylianou was by now a senior producer, primarily focused on pieces broadcast on Sky News at Tenhttps://www.journoresources.org.uk/nick-stylianou-sky-news-journalist-bafta/ and deployed to produce from the scene of breaking news stories.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1D92PrVF4A
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 handshttps://news.sky.com/story/general-election-south-asians-could-hold-balance-of-power-in-key-marginal-seats-11879224.
In that period, Stylianou produced a special Sky News Election programme for the in partnership with BuzzFeed News called 'Election Social'https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/sky-news-and-buzzfeed-join-forces-for-digital-election-night-coverage/. 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 spectrumhttps://www.journalism.co.uk/news/sky-news-and-buzzfeed-uk-collaborate-on-overnight-uk-general-election-2019-coverage/s2/a748668/. The programme won the 2020 Digiday Europe Media Awards Most Original Use of Social Mediahttps://digiday.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/09/DMAE-Guide-2020.pdf.
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
https://news.sky.com/story/i-had-my-throat-scraped-what-its-like-to-be-tested-for-covid-19-11947616https://news.sky.com/story/how-will-coronavirus-battle-plan-affect-everyday-life-11948082.
Stylianou devised and produced the world's first major live broadcast news programme staffed entirely remotelyhttps://pressgazette.co.uk/sky-news-claims-live-tv-news-first-with-programme-staffed-entirely-from-home/
https://www.societyofeditors.org/soe_news/sky-news-to-take-remote-working-to-the-extreme/– with every participant on and off-screen working from homehttps://www.tvbeurope.com/live-production/how-sky-news-broadcast-the-worlds-first-fully-remote-news-programmehttps://www.readkong.com/page/2021-mediatech-outlook-production-and-post-liveu-9938227. 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 Awardshttps://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/tech/watch-again-broadcast-tech-innovation-awards-2020/5155250.article (Best Innovation in Lockdown and Best Technical Innovation in a News Broadcast) and was shortlisted for the 2021 Royal Television Society News Technology Awardhttps://rts.org.uk/award/tvj2021.
Stylianou's data journalism during the COVID-19 pandemichttps://www.politico.eu/newsletter/london-playbook/politico-london-playbook-100162-3-month-head-start-you-only-bing-when-youre-winning/https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/100000-covid-deaths/102322/charted the course of the disease and the UK Government's appearances at press conferenceshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2020/jun/23/uk-coronavirus-live-latest-news-updates-pubs-restaurants-cinemas-and-museums?page=with:block-5ef2281c8f087111a86b715e, resulting in a comprehensive timeline of the British government's response to coronavirushttps://news.sky.com/story/covid-crisis-a-comprehensive-timeline-of-the-uk-response-to-the-pandemic-12214396https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-a-breakdown-of-the-number-10-coronavirus-updates-in-2020-12179971https://news.sky.com/story/covid-crisis-the-pandemic-year-and-what-was-happening-behind-the-scenes-12212602.
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.https://news.sky.com/story/detailed-plans-of-a-british-military-base-were-left-online-for-years-12013876
At the end of 2020, Stylianou broke the story that OnlyFans was fighting a tax billhttps://news.sky.com/story/onlyfans-is-fighting-against-a-tax-bill-of-more-than-10m-12162824 in the European court on unpaid VAThttps://news.sky.com/story/onlyfans-could-be-hit-with-bill-for-more-than-three-years-worth-of-unpaid-taxes-12022345, which it later lost.
Stylianou covered the 2021 Greece wildfires with Sally Lockwoodhttps://news.sky.com/story/greece-wildfires-thousands-living-in-evacuation-centres-as-flames-ravage-homes-12379256, embedded with British firefightershttps://news.sky.com/story/greece-wildfires-uk-team-help-strained-and-exhausted-greek-colleagues-battle-forest-flames-12378077https://vimeo.com/587120628.
In 2022, Stylianou teamed up with Mark Austin again as he travelled to Ukraine to cover the build-up of military tensions with Russiahttps://pressgazette.co.uk/sky-news-mark-austin-diary-ukraine/. After being called to Kyiv from where they were in Kharkivhttps://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-crisis-actors-in-kharkiv-vow-to-carry-on-as-russias-troops-sit-on-the-border-12546097https://vimeo.com/679712717https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-crisis-russia-extends-military-exercises-in-belarus-raising-further-fears-invasion-may-be-imminent-12547330https://vimeo.com/679954937https://vimeo.com/680543018, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was launchedhttps://vimeo.com/682584476, and he spent five weeks in the country, during the Kyiv offensive and the Battle of Kyiv, before evacuating to Lvivhttps://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-the-talking-tears-and-tiktok-therapy-of-the-conflicts-broken-children-12561253 alongside the injured Stuart Ramsay whose team was ambushed and attacked while reporting the Battle of Bucha and the Battle of Irpinhttps://pressgazette.co.uk/news/mark-austin-sky-ukraine-reporting-diary/.
Stylianou returned to Ukraine for a second time a month later with Austin where they reported from the site of the Bucha Massacrehttps://news.sky.com/video/ukraine-war-girl-recounts-her-mother-being-shot-in-the-head-by-a-sniper-in-front-of-her-12606358, Irpinhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2C_keS9yhs
and travelled to the frontlinehttps://vimeo.com/701752216 of the Battle of Kharkivhttps://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-the-children-living-learning-and-growing-up-in-kharkivs-underground-metro-station-12604724https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-putin-is-satan-in-human-form-says-priest-as-firefighters-losing-battle-to-save-kharkiv-and-patients-treated-in-corridors-12599469https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-extraordinary-moment-as-elderly-woman-who-was-given-food-to-help-her-survive-hands-it-to-a-neighbour-12598910https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-husband-vows-to-continue-killed-wifes-rescue-work-in-this-pointless-war-12605799.
They also met Bonohttps://twitter.com/markaustintv/status/1523391862371139584https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-latest-fire-at-russian-oil-tank-ukrainian-forces-close-in-on-supply-road-into-key-battleground-zelenskyy-accuses-moscow-of-genocid-12541713?postid=3856422#liveblog-bodyhttps://vimeo.com/707558925 while reporting in Borodyankahttps://news.sky.com/video/ukraine-war-painter-captures-pain-of-borodyanka-12608385https://vimeo.com/706191730.
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
https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-defying-the-russian-missile-bombardment-to-care-for-600-dogs-and-100-cats-12609605
https://www.reddit.com/r/dogsofukraine/comments/ubsno1/nick_stylianou_on_twitter_read_his_twitter_its/. They went to interview the exiled Mayor of Mariupol Vadym Boichenko in Zaporizhzhiahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkgE8x7qWbohttps://vimeo.com/705474806 and sat down with the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kulebahttps://telegrafi.com/ukraina-nuk-ka-frike-nga-rusia-thote-dmytro-kuleba/https://vimeo.com/706191730 in the capital.
Stylianou continued to spend extensive time on assignment in Ukraine throughout the year, including with Gillian Joseph in Kyivhttps://vimeo.com/724972454, where they interviewed the former Ukrainian Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikovhttps://news.sky.com/video/we-are-not-going-to-give-up-12642777https://vimeo.com/725335925 and the family of missing prisoner of war Ilia Samoilenko who was captured at the Azovstal steelworks in Mariupolhttps://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-news-live-zelenskyy-kremenchuk-putin-12541713?postid=4100415https://vimeo.com/725789681. 
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 Olenivkahttps://news.sky.com/story/released-ukrainian-prisoner-of-war-reveals-torment-at-the-hands-of-russians-12709279https://news.sky.com/video/released-ukrainian-prisoner-of-war-speak-out-following-capture-by-russians-12709715.
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 Kharkivhttps://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-the-last-resident-in-his-badly-damaged-block-of-flats-endures-extraordinary-hardship-and-says-i-have-nowhere-else-to-go-12818109, meet injured Ukrainian military personnel in a secret prosthetics clinichttps://news.sky.com/story/ukrainian-amputee-soldiers-vow-to-return-to-battlefield-12817098
 and investigate alleged war crimes committed by Russian forces in Buchahttps://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-daughter-recalls-mother-being-shot-dead-as-they-walked-together-in-war-torn-bucha-there-was-blood-everywhere-12818936.
He covered the funeral of Pelé from Santos, Brazilhttps://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/12778853/pele-funeral-fans-in-their-thousands-queue-to-see-heros-coffin-ahead-of-its-unusual-final-resting-placehttps://news.sky.com/story/fans-in-their-thousands-queue-to-see-hero-peles-coffin-ahead-of-its-unusual-final-resting-place-12778804 with Jacquie Beltrao, at the end of 2022 and beginning of 2023, where he was interviewed by local media.https://g1.globo.com/sp/santos-regiao/noticia/2023/01/03/jornalistas-da-imprensa-internacional-ressaltam-o-poder-do-nome-pele-embaixador-informal-do-brasil.ghtml
Stylianou is currently a specialist producer working alongside Lisa Hollandhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwNPuGgzbF4, in charge of stories about asylum seekershttps://news.sky.com/story/i-felt-scared-but-couldnt-do-anything-the-fake-families-being-smuggled-into-the-uk-12886913, migrationhttps://news.sky.com/story/theres-a-big-scam-going-on-how-people-are-paying-thousands-for-skilled-worker-visas-for-jobs-that-dont-exist-12945498, 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 2015https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_iKlYoXJTb0. 
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 discussionhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/edtvfest/20714427388/, and he returned to repeat the format the following year with Martha Kearney as hosthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7SLWE6Ni6c. 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'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ElD_-k3bs, chaired by Cathy Newman and featuring James Harding, John Ryley and Ben de Pear.
According to a story posted on Twitter by Stylianou in 2016https://x.com/nmsonline/status/1149665345600401408?s=20, 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 productionhttps://x.com/nmsonline/status/1149665394640113668?s=20, Stylianou never replied to Sheeran.
Category:1990 births
Category:People from London, England
Category:Alumni of Royal Holloway, University of London
Category:Alumni of City, University of London
Category:Journalists