David Bowden is a multi-award winning journalist who is one of Sky News' Senior Correspondents. Based in London, he has been an integral part of many of Sky News’ biggest stories over recent years. His live reporting of one of the early battles of the 2003 war in Iraq was a world first and was simulcast by TV stations across the globe, prompting one experienced commentator to write that it would “ go down in the annals of TV history”.
 
David has covered stories both at home and abroad regularly reporting from Afghanistan and Iraq as well as covering wars in Lebanon, Gaza and the Balkans. He was in Paris to cover the death of Princess Diana, in New York for 9/11, London for the 7/7 bombings and Indonesia for the Tsunami. He has also reported extensively from Africa, including Zimbabwe and covered natural disasters in China, India, Mozambique, DRC, the US and Japan as well as general reporting from Russia, the Middle East, America, Europe and Northern Ireland. More recently he has been the lead correspondent on Sky News coverage of Phone Hacking , breaking a series of exclusive stories , including the details of the £3 million pay out to the family of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler and that lawyers were preparing to take legal action in the US
 
David was central to Sky News RTS and BAFTA award winning coverage of the Soham murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, has twice won Medals at the New York Festivals and has been shortlisted for the Bayeux War Correspondent award and the MDGs One World Media award for Saminou, a Life and Death. He is also a former Industrial Society Journalist of the year.
 
He joined Sky News from GMTV in 1995, where he had been part of the start-up team working as both a Correspondent and News Editor, prior to that David worked as a reported for Central TV in Nottingham. He began his career in local Radio with the BBC before moving on to regional television.
 
Educated at both Leeds University and Polytechnic, David also has a Post Graduate Diploma in Radio Journalism from the London College of Printing.
 
Originally from Sheffield, David lives in Hampshire and has two sons.