Sky News has hired Deborah Haynes as a security and defense editor. In this role, she will cover foreign stories globally and carries out her own investigations.
Prior to joining Sky News, she was a defense editor, and before that, Iraq correspondent at The Times. She has also worked for Reuters, after six years at AFP in Tokyo, Geneva, Baghdad and London.
She won the Amnesty International award for national newspaper human rights reporting in 2008. The series also won the inaugural Bevins Prize for investigative journalism in 2008.