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.
James Murray is the Shadow Financial Secretary to the Treasury. We asked if Labour were planning to raise taxes in order to avoid spending cuts.
It’s a well-known true story of extreme survival: the plane that took off from Montevideo in Uruguay in October 1972 on its way to Santiago in Chile. On board – 45 people, including a rugby team.
Palestinians have started leaving southern Gaza’s main hospital – after Israeli forces ordered them to evacuate.
The Labour Party are not the only ones accused of watering down their green commitments in recent months.
Today we got confirmation that Labour has u-turned on one of its defining policy commitments – to spend £28 billion a year on green projects.
Tens of thousands of girls across England are at risk of serious violence and exploitation, often within gangs.
We spoke to Boris Nadezhdin, and began by asking if his growing popularity has become problematic for the Kremlin?
His surname derives from the Russian word for hope. And right now Boris Nadeezhdin is hoping the Kremlin will let him run for president against Vladimir Putin.
Over the border in Syria, the earthquake killed some six thousand people and left many more homeless.
We were joined by Charlie Taylor, who’s the Chief Inspector of Prisons.
Donald Trump has lost his claim for damages over a dossier containing allegations that he took part in sex acts and bribed Russian officials.
We spoke to the leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross.
We spoke to the former leader of the Scottish National Party in Westminster, Ian Blackford.
Iran has confirmed it seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, which was on its way to Turkey.
We’re joined by William Schabas, a human rights law expert who chaired the UN Commission of Inquiry into the 2014 Israel-Gaza war.