Matt Frei , Europe Editor and Presenter
Matt Frei is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News.
This year he has led the Channel 4 News coverage of events in Ukraine from the crash site of Malaysia flight MH17, to the tensions in Crimea and reported live from Independence Square on Kiev’s bloodiest day. He has also secured major interviews with Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Prior to his appointment as Europe Editor for Channel 4 News, Frei was the Washington Correspondent for two years and has reported on the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world.
He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.
Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He is the author of two books: Italy: The Unfinished Revolution published in 1996 by Random House and Mandarin books and Only In America published in 2008 by 4th Estate.
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Paralympian Hannah Cockroft: Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme ‘life changing’
The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme remains one of the Duke’s most enduring legacies. Its participants – mainly schoolchildren – take part in outdoor expeditions, learn new practical skills and volunteer in their communities. Since being founded in 1956, the scheme has seen over three million participants achieve awards in the UK. In the year…
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Prince Philip ‘would be genuinely surprised’ at reaction to his death, says Duke’s close friend Martin Palmer.
We’re joined by Martin Palmer, a friend of the Duke who collaborated with him on setting up a charity – The Alliance of Religions and Conservation – back in 1986.
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The Queen and Duke ‘saw life in the same sort of way’ – author and broadcaster Gyles Brandreth
We spoke to the writer and broadcaster, Gyles Brandreth, who interviewed the Duke of Edinburgh for his book, Philip and Elizabeth: Portrait of a Marriage.
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Prince Philip ‘was a sort of outsider insider’ – historian Prof Amanda Vickery
We spoke to the social and cultural historian, Prof Amanda Vickery.
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‘Our main worry is people are not doing things we know work’ – WHO’s Dr Margaret Harris
We spoke to Dr Margaret Harris from the World Health Organization.
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‘No medicine is 100% immune to side effects’ – former health secretary Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Hunt chairs the health and social care select committee and is a former health secretary.
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Liberal Democrats and Greens urge government to scrap Covid passport plans
Caroline Lucas of the Green Party and Sir Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats say the government should scrap its ‘illiberal’ plans for Covid passports.
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Pfizer Covid jab 100% effective for children aged 12-15, new study suggests
A new study from the United States has suggested that the Pfizer Covid jab is “100% effective and well tolerated” in children aged 12 to 15.
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Some will say Macron has acted ‘too late’ on France’s lockdown, says The Economist’s Sophie Pedder
Emmanuel Macron has announced that France is to go into a new national lockdown.
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Brazil’s health system ‘bedlam’ as daily Covid deaths reach record high amid variants fear
To Brazil now, where a record number of Covid deaths – more than 3,700 – were reported yesterday, leaving large parts of its health system now close to collapse.
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Covid rates in central Europe are among the highest in the world as third wave hits
More than thirty million people have now received their first dose of a vaccine.
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‘European Commission in very vulnerable position if rollout doesn’t go well’ – Prof Anand Menon
We spoke to Professor Anand Menon, the director of UK in a Changing Europe and began by asking him if Brexit is at all to blame for tensions between the UK and EU over vaccine supplies.
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Superintendent Mark Runacres from Avon and Somerset police tells Matt Frei: “We will not tolerate violence against officers.”
We spoke to superintendent Mark Runacres from Avon and Somerset police and started off by asking him whether what we saw in Bristol last night was an example of good policing.
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West ‘cannot allow events to deteriorate any further’ says author of ‘Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide’
We spoke to Dr Ronan Lee, author of Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide, Identity, History and Hate Speech and a visiting scholar at Queen Mary University’s International State Crime Initiative.
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EU ‘to blame’ for Italy’s slow vaccine rollout, says professor
Professor Andrea Crisanti is director of the microbiology and virology unit at the University of Padua.
