Jeremy Thompson

Jeremy Gordon Thompson (born 1948) is an English journalist and former news presenter for Sky News, the 24-hour television news service operated by Sky Television, part of British Sky Broadcasting. He was based at Sky News Centre in West London. He was formerly a Sports Correspondent for BBC News, ITN, and a foreign correspondent in Hong Kong, Johannesburg, and Washington. Until 2016, he regularly presented the channel's early evening coverage from 5pm to 7pm on Monday to Thursday.

Thompson was educated at The King's School, a boarding independent school for boys (now co-educational and non-boarding), in the market town of Worcester, and was a contemporary of presenter Chris Tarrant.

Thompson was frequently Sky News' leading anchor on major stories, often presenting on location. Assignments have included reporting from Rome and Vatican City on the death and funeral of Pope John Paul II in April 2005, the London bombings of July 2005, Hurricane Rita and the Asian Tsunami where he was the first British presenter on the scene, reporting live from Phuket on the immediate aftermath of the disaster. He also reported from Haifa in northern Israel during the 2006 Lebanon War.

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