Sky News launches digital newsletter of ‘engaging commentary’
Sky News is capitalising on its access to some of Australia’s most opinionated media personalities with the launch of a new digital newsletter.
Sky News Viewpoint will provide readers with a collection of commentary and editorials from the channel’s leading anchors and contributors, and will be delivered weekly on Wednesday evenings.
The free weekly newsletter will also include exclusive opinion features, video and commentary on breaking news and national affairs. This commentary will include views from Sky News’ Paul Murray, Peta Credlin, Andrew Bolt, Alan Jones, Chris Kenny, Rita Panahi, James Morrow, Graham Richardson and Rowan Dean as well as contributors, Janine Perrett, Bronwyn Bishop, Sharri Markson and Jack Houghton.
Sky News digital editor Jack Houghton said: “We’re not going to shy away from the robust and difficult discussions because we know our readers and listeners want to know the story behind the story.”
Sky News is also launched a podcast and Youtube series, Race to 2020, to be hosted by Morrow and Houghton, aimed at breaking down the week that was in the lead-up to the US election, alongside the Viewpoint newsletter.
Sky News head of digital Tim Love said: “Sky News Viewpoint is just one of the latest digital initiatives to extend the reach of Sky News content, which is now accessed by millions of viewers and listeners across Australia. This is an extension of our award-winning content available across the full suite of Sky News channels on Foxtel.”
Sky News’ digital properties currently includes skynews.com.au which follows on its broadcast reporting for breaking news and audio-visual journalism and is syndicated across News Corp mastheads, as well as digital-first brand and content platform 2600.
The channel also recently partnered with Facebook on exclusive content, including the launch of Unpacked, a bespoke program for Facebook Watch, produced and hosted by Sky News’ Madeleine Hale.
Bronwyn Bishop? Yeah, no thanks
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I prefer balanced, intelligent, fact-based media commentators to ‘opinionated’ ones such as those listed,
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20 Aug 2017
Tonight Alan Jones incorrectly identified the white clouds emerging from power station cooling towers as carbon. I support Alan’s general points, but he was technically incorrect and missed some strong points in his defence and promotion of fossil fuels as our backstop for many years.
The white clouds emanating from those lovely, statuesque, concave-barrel chimneys are not carbon; they are steam. The curved cone accelerates the steam to a condensation height and temperature and the resultant water pours down the cooling tower, and is re-used. What we see is Holy water, condensing from water vapour, that the community knows as steam, which is H2O water, in the vapour state.
The steam, as high temperature gaseous water, is the substance that drives the turbines to make electricity before the spent water vapour is delivered to the cooling towers, most of which is recaptured as water as it rises up the cooling tower and precipitates. The small percentage of residual, spent water vapour escapes as steam; condensing as it forms clouds.
The white cloud is neither carbon nor carbon dioxide; IT IS WATER! Carbon dioxide is ejected through the invisible, very tall, skinny chimneys, which are ignored by the press. Those tall, skinny chimneys have internal electrostatic precipitators to capture the vast majority of carbon particles and other minor contaminants that are a product of burning the coal to turn the feed water into steam to drive the turbines. The CO2 escapes to help feed our plants… providing we don’t produce too much. Clean coal addresses a large component of this difficulty.
Please don’t encourage the left wing to continue to misrepresent the images of pure water from cooling towerscondensing in our atmosphere.
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