More4 News, 2005-2009
Updated on 18 December 2009
More4 News, which broadcast for the last time on 18 December, has always aimed to step outside the everyday news agenda and look at events from a variety of perspectives, writes programme editor Michael Hodgkin.
More4 News launched in October 2005, along with the new channel - disturbingly billed as an "adult entertainment" channel in the pre-publicity.
Presented initially by Sarah Smith, the programme aimed to step outside the everyday news agenda and look at UK and world events from a variety of perspectives.
It quickly established itself as an intelligent, light-footed programme that was able to punch above its weight in chosen fields, with the security of the ITN/Channel 4 News operation behind it.
More4 News's John Sparks was among the first journalists to dig into the secret CIA flights behind what came to be known as extraordinary rendition; Phil Cox and Nima Elbagir's reports from Sudan helped to bring the world's attention to the war in Darfur; Nima was also the only western TV journalist in Mogadishu in 2007 when the city fell to Ethiopian-backed interim government forces.
Alongside the top news of the day, More4 News tried to air stories from under the radar - a mixture of the important but forgotten and the weird and wonderful - and voices from outside the mainstream, from David Shayler declaring himself the Messiah to David Irving in his Austrian prison cell.
Often playing the role of Channel 4 News's cheeky little brother, More4 News also had a tendency to lift the lid on the production process, as when, at the height of the row over TV fakery, Girish Juneja dissected the use of cutaways, noddies, walking shots and reconstructions alongside actuality in news reports.
But at the heart of what More4 News has done over the last four years was its journalism, always seeking, through the stories told, to shed light on the state of the world and the relations of the people in it.
This compilation of just a few of the programme's highlights starts with the Kurdish journalist Karzan Sherabayani confronting the man who had given him away to Saddam Hussein's secret police.
