Profile: Julian March
14 May 08
Julian March is the Executive Producer for the Sky News website www.sky.com/news. He crossed the newsroom floor from TV to the web in January 2007. Previously he edited the breakfast show Sunrise, where he broke the news of the London Bombings, and then moved on to Live at Five with Jeremy Thompson. In 2005 he won an RTS Award for Innovation for an on-screen ticker allowing survivors of the Tsunami to get a message home to loved ones.
While at Sky, Julian launched the oft-imitated newswall, crossed Russia reporting the 2004 Presidential Elections, and won the contract to put Sky News on giant billboards in UK train stations.
Julian loves languages – he’s an Oxford graduate in Russian and German, speaks Italian and French, and can just about manage in Danish. During a year studying Russian in St. Petersburg, he indulged his passion for Latin American percussion by joining a band and recording an album, all while dodging the gun-toting mafia.
Julian is married to a half-Italian BBC Correspondent, with whom he has a beautiful baby daughter; he’s addicted to cycling, and cooks a mean fish pie.
