Beth Rigby Biography
Beth Rigby is a media personality serving as political editor at Sky News. She has worked for Sky News since 2016. . She has previously worked as a newspaper journalist for the Financial Times and The Times.
Beth Rigby Age
She is 47 years old as of 2023. She was born 19 February 1976 in Colchester, Essex, UK.
Beth Rigby Height
She is 5 feet 6 inches tall.
Beth Rigby Nationality
Rigby holds British nationality.
Beth Rigby Education
She attended Beaconsfield High School, a girls’ grammar school she later graduated with a first in social and political science from Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. She went on to gain a master’s degree in economics and development studies from the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of London.
Beth Rigby Family
Rigby was born in Colchester, Essex, UK. She grew up in Buckinghamshire. Her father was a businessman and her mother was a headteacher. Her mother died of lung cancer at the age of 62, and her brother Alex died of thymic carcinoma at the age of 42.
Beth Rigby Husband and Kids
She is married to Angelo Acanfora and they have two children. Her husband worked as a graphic designer but became a stay-at-home dad in 2016. She lives in North London.
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After graduation, Rigby spent a period of time teaching English in Portugal, before joining the Financial Times as a graduate trainee in 1998. Her roles at the newspaper included hedge fund correspondent, retail correspondent, and consumer industries editor before she became chief political correspondent in 2010 and deputy political editor in January 2013.
She joined The Times in 2015 as media editor before moving to Sky News in 2016, initially as senior political correspondent, before being promoted in July 2018 to deputy political editor. In February 2019 she was appointed political editor and took up the post on 12 April 2019, replacing Faisal Islam, who had joined BBC News as economics editor.
In December 2020, she was criticized for breaching London’s tier 2 COVID-19 restrictions by attending a restaurant to celebrate the birthday of Sky presenter Kay Burley and was taken off air until March 2021. Rigby had offered to resign over the breach, later saying, “it was potentially damaging for the channel… it had upset my colleagues, and I felt absolutely wretched about that”. John Ryley, the head of Sky News, declined her offer to resign.
Beth Rigby Salary
She receives an average annual salary that ranges between $20,000 – $100, 000.
Beth Rigby Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $1 million as of 2023 which she has mainly accumulated from her successful journalism career.
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