Alex Thomson

Chief Correspondent
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Alex Thomson is Chief Correspondent at Channel 4 News.

In his 22 years on the programme he has covered 20 wars, across the Gulf, the Balkans, Africa and Afganistan – and he regularly presents the programme. Alex has lead the programme’s coverage of key news stories, including the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash on the Mull of Kintyre and Bloody Sunday, for which he won a Royal Television Society award in 1997.

Before joining Channel 4 News, Alex worked for BBC in Northern Ireland. He has written books about India and the Gulf War and writes a regular column for Press Gazette.

Show:

post 18 June 2013
Fukushima's two British Samurai survivors

Two British teachers caught up in the Fukushima nuclear meltdown tell Alex Thomson why they continue to teach their evacuated children, somewhere, somehow.

post 14 June 2013
Spinning Syria as US claims red line crossed

Spin is what it is all about when it comes to Syria. If the regime is only using chemical weapons on a "small scale", why has the US "red line" on taking action now been crossed?

11 June 2013
07 June 2013
post 07 June 2013
Collateral damage: why US drone operators risk PTSD

Warfare has undergone bizarre twists down the centuries, but the current life of the drone operator in the western deserts of the USA is beyond weird - and there is evidence it is beyond the tolerance

05 June 2013
03 June 2013
post 03 June 2013
'He wants to be called Mujahid Abu Hamza'

As Michael Adebolajo stands before a judge over the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby, it was a very different appearance for the local magistrates' court.

post 31 May 2013
Poll shows public at odds with reality of Iraq war

A new poll on public perceptions in the UK of the Iraq war is so staggeringly at odds with reality as to leave this journalist speechless.

30 May 2013
30 May 2013
post 30 May 2013
International parties have hidden agenda to destroy Syria - Hamas leader

EXCLUSIVE: Hamas has not betrayed the Assad regime by relocating from Syria to Qatar and opposes foreign intervention in Syria, says Khaled Meshaal.

30 May 2013
30 May 2013
post 29 May 2013
Craig Whyte's lawyers send Letter Before Action

Channel 4 News has seen a copy of the Letter Before Action now sent from lawyers acting for Craig Whyte, to Rangers FC and key shareholders involved with the club.

post 24 May 2013
Stansted plane arrests after mid-air security alert

Not a good day for travelling in the UK with security alerts in the air, on the railways and roads. Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson has the latest from Stansted after a plane was diverted there from

post 23 May 2013
Woolwich: the world witnesses murder

Caught on camera - how the haunting images of the brutal Woolwich murder will linger for years to come.

16 May 2013
post 14 May 2013
Withdrawing from Afghanistan: what next?

As news emerges of more Nato deaths in Afghanistan, Alex Thomson asks what happens when foreign troops leave the country.

09 May 2013