Sophy Ridge Biography
Sophy Ridge is an English broadcast journalist. She works for Sky News and has presented Sophy Ridge on Sunday. After completion of her training programmes she initially worked as a consumer affairs correspondent in 2009. She released her first book The Women Who Shaped Politics, a non-fiction book which discussed women’s contribution to British politics in 2017. She served as a journalist at the tabloid newspaper News of the World.
Sophy Ridge Age
She was born on 18th October, 1984, Richmond upon Thames, London, England.
Sophy Ridge Height
She stand at a height of 5 feet and 7 inches.
Sophy Ridge Education
She attended grammar Tiffin Girls’ School in London. During her time there, she did work experience at the local newspaper Richmond and Twickenham Times.
She continued her education at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and obtained a second-class BA degree in English Literature. During her final year of university she did a period of work experience at the tabloid newspaper News of the World, which led to a position on their graduate training programme.
Sophy Ridge Spouse
She is married to Ben Griffiths, Ben is a journalist from a national newspaper.
Sophy Ridge Children
Ridge and the husband, Ben, have two children.
Sophy Ridge Career
Sophy is a broadcast journalist, from England. She served as a journalist at the tabloid newspaper News of the World. She worked as a political correspondent for Sky News. There she presented Sophy Ridge on Sunday from 2017. During the 2015 general election, she covered the election news as a senior political correspondent. At that time, she reported on the campaign of the Labour Party. She hosted many interviews with the party members. She started as a voice-over artist at the voiceover agency Hobson’s International, from the 1990s and 2000s along with Ciara Janson, Louise Michelle, Tom Attenborough, and Will Attenborough.
Ridge was a trainee reporter at the now defunct tabloid newspaper News of the World. After completion of her training programmes she initially worked as a consumer affairs correspondent in 2009. She then gained a job as a political correspondent on Sky News in 2011.
During her time there she covered a broad range of political stories and travelled with the Prime Minister to Afghanistan, New York and Brazil. She was based in Colorado for the channel’s coverage of the US elections and was known for her round the clock broadcasting at the annual party conferences.
She covered the 2015 general election as a senior political correspondent for Sky News, reporting on the Labour Party’s campaign and conducting interviews with party members. Her exclusives during this time included Ed Miliband’s resignation as leader of the Labour Party following the result of that general election and Jeremy Corbyn’s victory in the subsequent Labour Party leadership election.
In the same year Ridge released her first book The Women Who Shaped Politics, a non-fiction book which discussed women’s contribution to British politics. She also started writing a weekly column in the tabloid newspaper Metro.
Sophy Ridge Salary
Sophy estimated annual salary is USD 60,000.
Sophy Ridge Net worth
Ridge net worth is estimated to be USD 500,000.
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