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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‘I’d be hesitant to call 999’, says former head of diversity and inclusion at West Midlands Police
Earlier we spoke Tony Burnett who was the head of diversity and inclusion for West Midlands Police between 2018 and 2021.
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Government changes to onshore wind farm rules ‘half-arsed’, says Miliband
We spoke to the shadow climate change secretary Ed Miliband about the government’s onshore wind farm rule changes.
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‘Ukraine has put up more wind turbines than UK in last year’, says former Tory energy minister
We spoke to former energy minister Chris Skidmore.
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Social housing crisis: ‘Get architects on board’, says RIBA President
Cathy Newman spoke to the newly-elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Muyiwa Oki. At 32, he is the youngest and first Black president of the institution. Cathy began by asking him why more architects aren’t involved in the provision of social housing?
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‘We need to make sure officers who let police force down get really quickly dealt with’, says policing minister
Cathy sat down with the policing minister Chris Philp. She began by asking him whether allowing senior officers rather than independent lawyers chair misconduct hearings was simply letting police mark their own homework?
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‘Warmer oceans created by climate change have made hurricanes worse’, says Professor of Thermal Sciences
We spoke to John Abraham, a climate scientist and Professor at the University of St.Thomas in the United States, and asked him to what extent hurricanes like the one we’re seeing in Florida are caused by rising temperatures in the oceans.
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‘The last thing you want to see is someone dragged into a courtroom kicking and screaming’, says father of murdered police officer
We spoke to Bryn Hughes. He worked as a prison officer for 25 years – and had to carry defendants into the dock.
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Putin will ‘rebrand’ and ‘resurrect’ Wagner, says expert on mercenary group
Candace Rondeaux is director of the Future Frontlines programme at the New America Foundation and an expert on the Wagner group.
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‘No doubt’ Putin behind Prigozhin’s death, says former Russian prime minister
Mikhail Kasyanov is a Russian opposition politician who was previously Prime Minister under Vladimir Putin.
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‘A miracle’: children react to Pakistan cable car rescue
The schoolchildren saved from a broken cable car in Pakistan yesterday say their rescue was a miracle.
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‘Traitors have a short lifespan’, says Russia analyst
We’re joined by Natia Seskuria – a Russia analyst from the Royal United Services Institute, RUSI.
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‘India has moved ahead of Russia’ in space race, says analyst
We speak to Dr Namrata Goswami – an author and professor based in Alabama who specialises in space policy and international relations.
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Prigozhin plane crash could be ‘pilot error’ or ‘assassination’, says Russia expert
We were joined by Angela Stent, author of ‘Putin’s World: Russia against the West’.
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‘Prigozhin was a dead man walking’, say Khrushchev’s granddaughter of Wagner boss reportedly on crashed plane
We’re joined from Moscow by Nina Khrushcheva – Professor of International Affairs at the New School in New York and granddaughter of the former Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev.
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It will be a ‘core mission’ of Labour to ‘improve the lives of children’, says Shadow Minister for Children & Early Years
We spoke to Helen Hayes – Shadow Minister for Children & Early Years about children in care.
