At 6pm this evening Sky will have been producing the news non-stop for 25 years - quite an achievement. The world we report has changed fundamentally since February 1989. 

We have a more globalised economy; political influence is moving from west to east; Communism is no longer a force to be reckoned with; and the lives of many of us on the planet have benefitted from extraordinary scientific developments.

Journalism, too, has changed significantly. 

That first night we led with a single story about people selling their kidneys; today a new story can be across the world in seconds, a rich, digital multi-media experience available in many forms on many products.  

The reason why, I believe, Sky News has stayed at the forefront of the new  industry is because we have understood the need for perpetual change in all that we do.

In recent years we have refused to stand still, embracing new technology and making real efforts to understand how we can use it to deliver the news to our viewers. We’ve developed smartphone and tablet applications, and innovated with over-the-top devices like Apple TV and Roku, reaching new audiences around the world with high quality, impartial news.

Technical innovation will be at heart of our future success. We will continue to put the smart use of new technology at the core of our business and deliver the news to our viewers in the format they want it.  That will sit along-side our enterprising and world-class journalism. From our ground-breaking reporting in Kosovo in 1999, to campaigning, against the odds, for the 2010 Leaders’ Debates, to live reporting from the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley, and jumping, with foresight, on a rebels' lorry bound for Tripoli in 2011. All happened because of entrepreneurial thinking. 

Sky News aims to be a beacon for impartial reporting across the world – and that goal will remain with us for the next 25 years.