We will maintain the distinctive journalism and intelligence of Channel 4 News seven days a week.  Channel 4 News will maintain its foreign coverage and global perspective.  We will increase the role of independent production in news coverage. 

We will give multiculturalism a priority in news and current affairs in 2002.  Our new strand Unreported Britain will give a half hour peak time outlet to multicultural stories. 

We will have at least four major seasons in 2002 giving current affairs programmes real impact in the schedule. We will continue to highlight our coverage of politics in clusters of programmes in peak time and at significant moments of the year.

We will continue to focus our investigative journalism on Dispatches, with a new Editor in place from January. 

We will transmit a major current affairs series exploring the effects of poverty on family life in the twenty first century.