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Lisa Holland



Sky News' Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lisa Holland is an award-winning journalist who covers major news stories from around the globe. She has repoted extensively on the troubles in post-war Iraq and was amongst the first western journalists to enter Eastern Afghanistan, 36 hours after the fall of the Taliban, in 2001.

To understand the legacy of years of fighting in Iraq, Lisa reported on birth abnormalities in Fallujah and the subsequent story of an Iraqi doctor embarking on new training in London.

Working in Afghanistan was a remarkable experience for Lisa, but one which was blighted by the deaths of four fellow journalists who were shot dead when the convoy in which herself and the Sky News team had been travelling from Jalalabad to Kabul, was ambushed by the Taliban.

Lisa’s career began on the Sutton Coldfield Observer as a junior reporter, before she moved to the south coast to work as a reporter on the Brighton Evening Argus. After the Argus she moved into broadcasting. working in the south-west for the BBC as a regional reporter/presenter and in London before joining Sky.

While at the Argus Lisa broke her first major news story - when the Eastbourne MP Ian Gow was killed in an IRA car bomb outside his home. Her report won her a Young Journalist of the Year award. She has also won a Royal Television Society Award.

Lisa was educated in the West Midlands before attending journalist training college in Sheffield. She is based in West London and counts diving among her hobbies.