Dominique van Heerden

Producer

United Kingdom

About

I'm a multi-award winning journalist at Sky News, field producing a number of major global stories across Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. I specialise in breaking news and original storytelling. My most recent assignments have focused on the wars in Myanmar, Ukraine, and the Middle East, as well as escalating gang violence in Haiti. In 2020, I produced Sky News's groundbreaking coverage from Italy at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, earning Emmy and Royal Television Society awards for the team. I also produced Sky’s Emmy-award winning current affairs doc ‘The Last Hospital: 30 Days in Myanmar’. I began my career as a journalist at CNN, working in the field with CNN's Chief International Correspondent Christiane Amanpour. For the last 7 years, I have been producing Sky's Chief Correspondent Stuart Ramsay, winner of the 2023 RTS Network Television Journalist of the Year.

Experience

  • Senior Foreign Producer at Sky News at Sky News
    Oct 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 9 mos

  • CNN (8 yrs 9 mos)
    • Field Producer
      Jun 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

    • Producer, Amanpour.
      Jul 2013 - Jun 2016 · 3 yrs

    • Digital Producer
      Dec 2010 - Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos

  • Co-founder at Not on the Wires
    Nov 2009 - Nov 2011 · 2 yrs 1 mo

    not on the wires is a cooperative of journalists. we shoot, edit, design, present, photograph, code, aggregate, in other words, we’re multimedia.