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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The Met are ‘papering over the cracks’ says mother of murdered sisters
We spoke to Mina Smallman who has been campaigning for an end to the ‘toxic culture’ within the Met following the murder of her two daughters. Two police officers were later jailed for sharing photographs and highly offensive comments about the murdered women.
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Russian Ambassador: Ukrainian shopping mall hit by missile was ‘empty’
We spoke to the Russian ambassador to the UK, Andrei Kelin about his country’s ongoing war in Ukraine. We asked for his response to the missile strike on a shopping mall in Kremenchuk- and if at the very least he would admit that it was a tragic and terrible mistake?
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Rotherham abuse scandal: South Yorkshire Police ‘have not done anything’ with IOPC recommendations, says Labour MP
Labour MP for Rotherham Sarah Champion spoke to us from our Westminster studio.
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Rotherham abuse scandal: Survivor ‘appalled no one will be held to account’
Sammy Woodhouse, was groomed by the Rotherham gang from the age of just 14.
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9m
Scotland and Wales hit hard by train strikes
Ciaran Jenkins is at Queen’s Park station in Glasgow and Andy Davies is in Cardiff.
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‘We need a square deal like everyone else’, says RMT union
Mick Lynch who’s general secretary of the RMT union joins Cathy from outside London’s Euston station.
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Unions using ‘young people’ as bargaining chip by striking during exams, education minister says
Earlier Cathy spoke to the Government minister Michelle Donelan and began by asking her, how it is that pensioners deserve a ten per cent rise in their income and public sector workers don’t deserve anything like that?
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‘I’m not sure the Bank is doing enough to get on top of this inflation problem’, says former policymaker
We were joined by former Bank of England policymaker Andrew Sentance.
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‘Encouraging few million Brits to eat less meat will have inconsequential impact on climate change’, environment secretary says
The government has released a new landmark food strategy, which the prime minister described as a “blueprint” for what we eat and how it’s produced.
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Has the government ‘levelled up’ the north of England?
We spoke to MP for Bassetlaw, Brendan Clarke-Smith; Anne Longfield who is Chair of the Commission on Young Lives; and Richard Bonner who is part of the Northern Powerhouse partnership which wants to get a better deal for the “levelling up” of the North of England.
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Public mood has shifted decisively against PM, says pollster James Johnson
There’s already much speculation over what the confidence vote result will mean for Boris Johnson’s long term survival if he hangs on by a small margin.
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‘Very difficult’ for party to recover from confidence vote, says Charles Walker MP
We spoke to the senior Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker, who was at the 1922 Committee meeting earlier and apparently told Mr Johnson “at times you’ve driven me absolutely wild”.
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Stay confident? How past confidence votes have affected prime ministers
Prime ministers talk a lot about confidence votes “clearing the air” and letting them “get on with the job”.
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Future monarchy will give ‘better value for money,’ says Royal commentator
We went back to our guests – Royal commentator Victoria Howard, who writes for the Crown Chronicles website, and Charles Anson who’s a former Press Secretary to the Queen.
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Platinum Jubilee about ‘thanking Queen for steady duty,’ says Queen’s former Press Secretary
We were joined by the Royal commentator Victoria Howard, who writes for the Crown Chronicles website, and Charles Anson who’s a former Press Secretary to the Queen.
