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.
We spoke to Lindy Li – a top Democratic fundraiser and member of the Democratic National Finance Committee. She was with Kamala Harris after her speech.
We speak to American pollster and communications consultant Frank Luntz, who’s also been in Chicago.
Tim Walz accepts the VP nomination as Kamala Harris prepares to take centre stage at the Democratic National Convention.
We’re joined by US Trade Representative Katherine Tai.
We’re joined by Nayyera Haq, who was a senior director in the Obama White House administration.
The Obamas’ back-to-back speeches electrified Democrats, bringing energy to the Convention, messages of hope reminiscent of 2008 and eviscerating Donald Trump.
We spoke to Roxane Gay, a feminist scholar, social commentator and author, whose latest eBook is ‘Stand Your Ground – a Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem’.
We spoke to Terry Szuplat, a former speechwriter for Barack Obama, and author of the upcoming book ‘Say It Well’.
Joe Biden got several minutes of emotional, standing ovation here in Chicago – Democrats cheering his dedication and surely also his decision to pass the baton to Kamala Harris.
We’re joined by Simon Rosenberg, a party strategist who founded the New Democrat Network.
In a few hours time Chicago will be filled with thousands of delegates and party grandees.
His book ‘A Day in the Life of Abed Salama’ focused on a school bus crash in 2012, which killed 6 Palestinian children.
We spoke to William Schomburg who heads the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation in Gaza.
The Ukrainian MP Oleksandra Ustinova spends a lot of her time in the United States, talking to, and lobbying, American politicians.
We spoke to Sudanese political activist Amgad Fareid Eltayeb and started by asking him whether he thought the talks between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the rival Rapid Support Forces were futile.