Matt Frei leads coverage of the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world. He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.
Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Editor Jim Gray says of Matt: "Matt has an impressive track record and joins us at a time when the world's news and the US view on it needs explaining like never before"
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The prime minister rejects the view that a renegotiation of Britains EU status would achieve nothing, and tells Matt Frei such a renegotiation should precede any referendum on Europe.
The controversy over David Cameron's EU referendum pledge has highlighted the lack of chemistry between Britain's prime minister and the US president.
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With a hunger strike and one hundred inmates refusing food, President Obama renews his intention to shut down the Guantanamo detention centre declaring he does not want people to die.
The fallout from the Boston Marathon bombing has been a new line of communication between Russia and the USA. But can it help bring a diplomatic push to end the Syria crisis?
You can compare President Obama's second term with the fate of the cicada swarms that hit Washington in May: a lot of preparation, but within weeks the frenzy has gone.
The use of chemical weapons in Syria is a "war crime" David Cameron says, but adds it is "unlikely" British troops will be sent into the war-wracked country.
Deadly bombings, fire disasters and ricin threats remain less toxic to the US psyche than the bitter argument over gun control, writes Matt Frei in Boston.
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Matt Frei speaks to those grieving in the wake of Monday's tragic attack that killed three people, including eight-year-old child Martin Richard.
Despite an outpouring of public anguish after the Newtown massacre, gun control measures called for at the time now seem impossibly ambitious in the face of US political realities.
If Washington was conspicuous by its eagerness to intervene in Iraq it is equally conspicuous by its reluctance to do so in Syria. The words bitten and shy come to mind.
Despite years in the limelight as president of the US, George W Bush is now proving rather elusive- even in his home state of Texas, finds Matt Frei.
Writing from Caracas Matt Frei reveals how in 1998 he was given one of the most bizarre and memorable assignments he has ever been on - spending a week with Imelda Marcos.
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Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is facing his "most difficult hours" since his cancer operation in December as the country's top officials gather for emergency talks. Matt Frei has the latest.
The US spending "sequester" that could come into force later today stands to shave as much as half a per cent off the country's GDP growth. And its impact on the UK could be critical.
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South African reporter Debora Patta and Gareth A Davies, who has known Oscar Pistorius for a decade, discuss the athlete's release on bail.
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Former culture secretary Ben Bradshaw, and former head of Channel 5 head David Elstein discuss the BBC's release of documents relating to the decision to not air and investigation into Jimmy Savile.
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As Mumford & Sons take home best British group at the Brit Awards, they tell Channel 4 News about their rise in the US - and why where they went to school is irrelevant to being a musician.
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Business Secretary Vince Cable denies that the Chancellor was playing politics when he over-estimated the amount likely to be raised in the auction of the 4G phone spectrum. Interview in full.
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In a week which began with a promise from President Obama to help drive through tough new gun controls and which ended with a fatal shooting in South Africa Channel 4 News hosts a debate on the issue.
The US is at a crossroads with President Barack Obama pledging to take action on guns. But is America ready?
