Tom Cheshire

Tom Cheshire

Online campaign correspondent

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Biography

Tom is a correspondent in our Data and Forensics unit. He was previously Asia correspondent, based in Beijing, with a particular focus on China, Japan, South Korea and North Korea.

In the North, he was the only British broadcaster to witness the demolition of the Punggye-ri nuclear test site.

Before moving to Beijing, Tom was technology correspondent for four years and part of the team that won a Royal Television Society award for scoop of the year, for the Islamic State files.

Before joining Sky, he was previously associate editor at WIRED magazine and is also the author of The Explorer Gene, a non-fiction account of a family of explorers published in 2013.