James Blake is a reporter for Channel 4 News, where he covers the main stories of the day with special emphasis on education, home affairs and extremism.
James has been a reporter since September 2006. Since then he has exposed the lack of state school students in Britain's top universities, revealed the condition of detention centres, and reported on the chaos in the family courts system.
Prior to this James was a specialist producer on the home affairs desk, covering education policy, A-level exams, crime, immigration, health and terrorism.
He has also won two mental health media awards for reports on racism in hospitals and suicides in prisons.
On a time out from news James produced the Channel 4 Dispatches programmes "Judges in the Dock" which won the International Legal Reporting Award.
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James Blake
