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Michelle Clifford



Formerly a US Correspondent, Michelle has now returned to London to report breaking news across the UK.

Michelle joined Sky News in 2000 as a London based reporter but soon had her first US story when she was sent to Washington the night after the Presidential election. Expecting to stay for several days, Michelle ended up staying for six weeks to cover the subsequent voting fallout. Since then she has travelled back and forth to America several times to cover US news including Hurricane Katrina in 2005 before being made US Correspondent in 2006.

During her time at Sky, Michelle has covered the war in Afghanistan, returning after the fall of the Taliban to welcome in 2002 in Kabul. The same year she reported on both the Bali bombings and the Soham murders. In 2003, Michelle spent six months in Baghdad - before and after the fall of Saddam Hussein. And in 2004, she reported on both Yasser Arafat’s death in Paris and the South African elections.

Michelle also reported on the environment for a special six part series – 67 degrees south - from Antartica in 2004. The planned three weeks of reports turned into two months when the ship Michelle was travelling on got stuck in treacherous sea ice which meant that she spent both Christmas and New Year in the most southerly continent on earth.

Michelle, whose parents are from Kerry in Ireland, grew up in Northampton. She studied Philosophy at Bristol University before beginning her journalism career as a graduate trainee at the BBC where she spent the next 10 years, first as a regional reporter before moving to Manchester to work as a Political reporter.