Cathy Newman , Presenter
Cathy Newman is the first female main presenter of Channel 4 News.
She joined the programme in 2006 and has broadcast a string of scoops, including allegations of violent abuse against the British barrister John Smyth, sexual harassment allegations against the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard, and an investigation into a British sex offender, Simon Harris, which saw him jailed for 17 years.
Previously Cathy spent over a decade working in Fleet Street, latterly with the Financial Times.
Her book - Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention - about female pioneers in 20th century Britain, was published in autumn 2018.
Her second book, It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared To Be Different, is published on October 15, 2020.
In her spare time, Cathy is a keen amateur violinist, and plays in The Statutory Instruments quartet with members of parliament and Westminster staff.
In 2000, Cathy won the prestigious Laurence Stern Fellowship, spending four months at the Washington Post.
She is married with two children.
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Covid: Parents on whether schools in England should reopen or stay shut
Sammie McFarland, whose 14-year-old daughter has had Covid and is still unwell, is the founder of Long Covid Kids, a group of parents who are worried about the long-term impact of the virus on their children and believe schools aren’t safe to reopen.
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Government must ‘reassess what it needs to do for children’s wellbeing’ in lockdown, Children’s Commissioner for England
We spoke to the Children’s Commissioner for England, Anne Longfield.
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Up to one in six children in England have mental health problems in pandemic
They can’t go to school, they can’t see friends. Their exams are up in the air. University, a job, a future, none of it seems remotely possible in any normal way.
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76 Days: The story of Wuhan’s lockdown
Hao Wu’s ’76 Days’ was filmed inside four Wuhan hospitals during its lockdown – by his two co-directors.
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Covid becoming ‘more efficient at living in humans’, says Prof Sir John Bell
Prof Sir John Bell is Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford and sits on the government’s taskforce.
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‘Children have been very seriously damaged’ by NHS gender clinic, says former Tavistock staff governor
Dr David Bell wrote an internal report in 2018, raising the concerns brought to him by colleagues about the way the Gender Identity Development Service was treating patients.
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NHS gender identity service given leave to appeal High Court puberty blockers ban
Judges declared in December that children under 16 were unlikely to be able to consent to hormone treatments to stop the onset of puberty.
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Matt Hancock: Covid cases not ‘rising as fast’ after national lockdown
We spoke to the Health Secretary Matt Hancock and began by asking what effect the sheer number of Covid deaths announced today have on him.
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London hospitals will run out of beds in ‘next few days’ if Covid cases don’t fall, says Sadiq Khan
We spoke to London’s Mayor Sadiq Khan. With hospitalisations falling slightly in the capital and with infection rates edging down, we began by asking if the current restrictions were working.
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‘We don’t want to be in this situation next winter’ – Prof Devi Sridhar
Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at Edinburgh University.
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‘NHS on its knees’ – Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth
We speak to the Shadow Health Secretary Jon Ashworth.
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Following lockdown rules ‘the only way that we’re going to bring transmissions down’, says Tory MP Elliot Colburn
Elliot Colburn is the MP for Carshalton, the location of the hospital in Victoria Macdonald’s report.
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Barking MP Dame Margaret Hodge says demand for oxygen ‘is exceeding supply’ at her local hospital
With London struggling to control its coronavirus crisis – the worst hit area in the capital – and indeed in Britain – is Barking and Dagenham.
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‘We’re after a power share, not a power grab’ – Sir Lenny Henry on diversity in TV industry
More black, more female and employing more disabled people. That’s what Lenny Henry says broadcasters must become or they risk viewers switching off.
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British public ‘have been coerced to stop seeing the people they love’ – Tory MP Charles Walker
One MP who made an impassioned speech in the Commons earlier about the dangers of a lockdown was Conservative Sir Charles Walker.
