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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Government criteria for care home discharge ‘not particularly well thought through’ – Prof Martin Vernon
Joining us now from north London is Helen Wildbore and Consultant Geriatrician Prof Martin Vernon.
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Government being ‘complacent’ over virus testing, says Newcastle City Council leader Nick Forbes
We spoke to the leader of Newcastle City Council, Nick Forbes and Kim McGuinness the Northumbria Police & Crime Commissioner.
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Google would ‘like to make bigger contribution’ on tax – Matt Brittin
Its corporate motto is “do the right thing” – but from allegations of promoting fake news and extremism, to claims of tax avoidance – Google is finding it hard to match its reputation to that ideal.
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‘The clearly anticipated surge that would happen as schools came back… was not planned for over the summer’: Prof Alan McNally
The microbiologist Prof Alan McNally, who helped set up the Lighthouse diagnostic labs network to support the fight against Covid, joined us from Birmingham.
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Proposed Brexit deal changes ‘unwise path for British government to go down and not the behaviour of an honourable country’ – Fine Gael’s Neale Richmond
We were joined from Dublin by the Fine Gael TD and spokesperson on Brexit, Neale Richmond.
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‘The Union is at greater peril that at any time during my political lifetime’, says Mark Drakeford, First Minister of Wales
We spoke to the First Minister of Wales, Mark Drakeford – and began by asking whether he was celebrating, because this is being billed as the biggest transfer of power in the history of devolution.
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SNP’s Ian Blackford says Scottish parliament is ‘under threat’ and can only be protected by stopping UK PM
We are joined by the SNP’s Westminster leader, Ian Blackford, who caused something of a furore after calling Boris Johnson a “barefaced liar” in the Commons.
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England’s deputy chief medical officer tells public to be cautious as Covid restrictions ‘may go on for several months’
We started by asking whether the prime minister’s ambitious moonshot testing plan was as achievable as putting a man on the moon?
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‘In 50 years as a Conservative Party member, I’ve always believed in upholding the rule of law. I don’t think one should depart from that’ – Tory MP Sir Bob Neill
We spoke to Sir Bob Neill – the Conservative MP who asked the question of Brandon Lewis that prompted the Minister’s admission.
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Mass testing ‘only way normal life can carry on’ – former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt
We spoke to Jeremy Hunt – the former Health Secretary – who’s now chair of the Commons Health Committee.
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HK activist Joshua Wong: ‘Beijing has just ignored our voting rights’
I spoke to Joshua Wong who is one of the leaders of the protest movement in Hong Kong.
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Extinction Rebellion defends disrupting national newspapers to protest against ‘failure to report’ on climate crisis
If the aims of the latest Extinction Rebellion protests overnight were to get publicity and provoke a backlash, they worked.
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Keeping office workers at home for longer could be ‘the right way to go’ to contain virus, says virologist
We’re joined by Elisabetta Groppelli – a virologist and a lecturer in Global Health at St George’s Medical School in London.
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‘That’s our generation’s problem, we don’t know how to talk about it’ – Caitlin Moran on trying to help her daughter with mental health struggles
Caitlin Moran addresses the challenges of entering middle age in her new book ‘More than a Woman’.
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‘I would love a world where misogyny speech was viewed as a historical curiosity, but that’s not the world we live in’ – Julia Gillard
We spoke to Julia Gillard on her new book of conversations with women leaders, and about sexism – with some quite colourful language involved.
