Sophy Ridge: My advice to women is to be pushy

The first guest in the Women in Journalism Podcast is the amazing Sophy Ridge from Sky News.

Sophy was the first woman to present a Sunday morning political show, and she is the current face of Politics Hub at Sky. In March 2025, she was awarded the Network Presenter of the Year award at the Royal Television Awards.

Our team: 

Marine Saint

Marine is a freelance features and news reporter who graduated from Columbia Journalism School with a Masters in Journalism in 2024. Starting off as a columnist and deputy-editor at Bristol University paper Epigram, Marine recently interned for the Financial Times Investigations and Weekend team. She now writes on business, culture and gender equity for the FT.

Freya Shaw

Throughout her undergraduate degree, Freya worked as a videoeditor for different activist groups, before pursuing a Masters in Investigative Journliasm at City University. She has worked on various Investigative projects, most recently Radio 4 and Tortoises’ The Naked Week, and is a Summer 2025 Audience Fellow at The Economist. 

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