Mark White

Mark White has worked at Sky News since November 1999, first as a general news reporter and now as Sky’s Home Affairs Correspondent.

In that time he has reported from Indonesia on the Boxing Day Tsunami, from the Old Bailey on the London nail-bombing trial and Abu Hamza's incitement to murder trial. He has also reported extensively on numerous terrorist related stories, including the London bomb attacks in July 2005. Following the shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes, Mark managed to secure exclusive access to film a documentary with the Metropolitan Police armed response unit, CO19.

After the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami, Mark was sent to the worst affected area, the city of Banda, in Ache province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. He said of the experience: "My time in Banda Ache was without doubt the most traumatic and humbling experience of my life.. amazing scenes of destruction and human tragedy. Images which will stay with me, always."

In 2010 and 2011, Mark covered the scenes of violence which accompanied the various student protests in London, beginning with the attack on the Conservative Party headquarters in Westminster.

In Februray 2011, Sky News won a Royal Television Society award for its coverage of the student riots.

Mark started his broadcasting career with BBC Radio in Scotland in 1987. A year later he was sent to cover the aftermath of the Lockerbie air disaster. Mark spent more than a year working mainly in and around Lockerbie before returning in 1990 to report on the five-month long, Lockerbie Fatal Accident Inquiry in Dumfries.