Felicity Spector

Biography

Felicity Spector is assistant programme editor for Channel 4 News, where she works as chief writer and occasional programme editor of More4 News. She first joined ITN as a graduate trainee where her first major story was the fall of Communism across Eastern Europe. She was in Czechoslovakia for the Velvet Revolution and also covered the collapse of the Iron Curtain in Romania and East Germany.

She spent several months in Moscow as Gaby Rado's producer for Channel 4 News - before becoming ITN's Moscow Bureau producer in 1991.

After returning to Channel 4 News Felicity worked frequently in Eastern Europe, France and Italy - helping to secure the first British TV interview with Silvio Berlusconi in 1994.

A piece she produced from LA about Stephen Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Foundation won the White House Photographers Association award for the Washington Bureau's Chris Shlemon.

Her America interest took off in 1996 when she was awarded a US State Department travelling fellowship to investigate future trends in broadcasting across the United States.Then in 1999 she took a sabbatical from ITN after winning a Fulbright Scholarship to Harvard University, where she read a Masters in American politics and political communications at the Kennedy School of Government.

She stayed an extra semester as research associate for the former White House chief of Staff David Gergen - helping to set up his Centre for Public Leadership, as well as working on Channel 4 News's coverage of the 2000 Presidential elections.

She became the America correspondent for the new ITN website - with background articles, features and news about the elections - and also found time to write the odd piece for the New York Times, the Observer, and the Independent - as well as a little stand-up comedy.

Felicity has kept up a keen interest - some would say obsession - in American politics, writing a regular column for the Channel 4 Newsroom blog on US affairs and acting as the US specialist for Channel 4's Morning Report.

But her very favourite thing about writing for Channel 4 News is dreaming up the puns which come up on the screen before each commercial break.

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