Jon Snow (journalist)

Jon Snow
Snow speaking at Chatham House in 2011
Born	(1947-09-28) 28 September 1947 (age 69) Ardingly, Sussex, England
Occupation	Journalist, television presenter, news anchor
Years active	1983–present
Notable credit(s)	Channel 4 News (1989–present)
Spouse(s)	Precious Lunga (m. 2010)
Children	2
Relatives	Bishop George Snow Peter Snow Dan Snow

Jon Snow (born 28 September 1947) is an English journalist and television presenter, currently employed by ITN. He is best known as the longest running presenter of Channel 4 News, which he has presented since 1989.

Snow has held numerous honorary appointments, including Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University from 2001 to 2008.

Snow was born in Ardingly, Sussex, the son of George D'Oyly Snow, Bishop of Whitby, and his wife Joan, a pianist who studied at the Royal College of Music. He is a grandson of WW1 General Sir Thomas D'Oyly Snow (about whom he writes in his foreword to Ronald Skirth's war memoir The Reluctant Tommy) and is the cousin of retired BBC television news presenter Peter Snow.

Snow won a choral scholarship by Winchester Cathedral, and spent five years at the Pilgrims' School. He grew up at Ardingly College, where his father was headmaster. In 2013, he recounted how the inquiry into Sir Jimmy Savile had allowed him to re-evaluate his own childhood when he was molested by one of the school's domestic staff.

Snow subsequently attended St Edward's School, Oxford. When he was 18 he spent a year as a VSO volunteer teaching in Uganda.