Overview

Jeff Randall presents ‘Jeff Randall Live’ on Sky News. His show focuses primarily on business and politics. He joined the broadcaster full time in January 2009. In addition, he is Editor-At-Large of The Daily Telegraph, a position he has held since November 2005, writing a weekly column on financial issues, politics and other current affairs.

He joined the Daily Telegraph from the BBC, where he was business editor for nearly five years, 2001-2005. Before joining Sky, Jeff presented a weekly radio show for BBC Five Live, made television documentaries for ITV and radio documentaries for BBC Radio Four. He was launch editor of Sunday Business. Under his stewardship, it won the Sunday Newspaper of the Year Award and the Harold Wincott Award for Financial Journal of the Year. Over a period of nine years, Jeff was Assistant Editor, Sports Editor and City Editor of the Sunday Times. He was also a Director of Times Newspapers (1994-95).

His awards for journalism include: Best Business Broadcast Prize at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards, 2007; Harold Wincott Award for Best Business Broadcaster, 2004; PR Week’s Communicator of the Year, 2004; Sony Gold Radio Award for Best Sports Broadcast, 2003; Best Business Broadcast Prize at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards, 2003; Decade of Excellence Prize at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards, 2003 ; London Press Club's Business Journalist of the Year Award, 2000; and Financial Journalist of the Year, 1991.

Jeff was educated at the Royal Liberty Grammar School in Romford, Essex, and the University of Nottingham (BA Economics). He was awarded an honorary doctorate from Anglia Ruskin University in 2001 and an honorary doctorate from the University of Nottingham in 2006.