Minnie Stephenson is an award-winning correspondent for Channel 4 News covering culture stories in the UK and around the world.
Minnie joined the programme in 2018 having previously worked for 5 News & ITV News, her interests include the arts, women’s rights & identity politics.
Minnie has reported for Channel 4’s critically acclaimed current affairs programme Unreported World and on Channel 4 News’ Uncovered series on Facebook.
In 2019, Minnie and her team won the News & Currents Affairs Mind Award - for demonstrating a commitment to mental health reporting across the year.
The broadcaster has written for the Guardian, Huffington Post & Stylist. Minnie has hosted Pride in London and co-founded ITN’s first ever LGBTQ+ network.
‘How To Have Sex’ written and directed by Molly Manning Walker tells the story of three teenage girls who head to a Greek island after their GCSEs.
Mirror Group Newspapers have issued an “unreserved apology” for any historical wrongdoing – after the High Court ruled that Prince Harry had been the victim of phone hacking and awarded him £140,000 in damages.
Channel 4 News has been given figures that show children who’ve suffered sexual abuse are facing increasing delays – sometimes up to several years – for perpetrators to be brought to justice.
Our Culture Correspondent Minnie Stephenson spoke exclusively to Gossip front woman Beth Ditto about politics and pop – as the band releases its first album in more than a decade.
Even without a record label, the Welsh musician Ren has developed a following of millions. People around the world have connected with his candour about his physical and mental health struggles – sending his new album to the top of the UK chart.
Today’s hostage releases seem to be going more smoothly than yesterday when the process was put on hold for several tense hours.
Staff at OpenAI – the company behind the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT – have threatened to resign en masse unless former boss Sam Altman is reinstated.
She shot in black and white, to better capture the lives of people living on the edge of destitution in north east England: now a new documentary pays tribute to the life and work of the late photographer Tish Murtha.
The rap musician and activist Killer Mike has taken to the stage in London, for a series of shows – his first in the UK for more than a decade.
The Women’s Liberation Movement burst into public consciousness around 1970. Despite the liberalism promised by the Sixties, little had changed and women were angry. That fury led to an explosion of creativity which was snubbed by the art world, but is now on display at the Tate Britain. ‘Women in Revolt!’ brings together art and…
Even before the latest conflict in the Middle East erupted, a record 110 million people around the world were already displaced by conflict, persecution or the impacts of climate change – that’s according to the UN’s Refugee Agency.
More than 30 per cent of UK clubs have closed since the pandemic, who knew a saviour of the club scene could lie in a former soft furnishings site.The IKEA in Tottenham (North London) has gone from DIY haven to dancefloor, and with a 15,000 person capacity DRUMSHEDS is now one of the UKs biggest cultural spaces.
War and propaganda have always gone hand in hand, but in the age of social media, harmful misinformation has so many more ways to proliferate, and can get around the world faster than ever. Today the EU urged the bosses of Twitter, Facebook and other platforms to curb the spread of fake news, warning that…
The powerful earthquake in western Afghanistan, which Taliban officials say has killed almost two and a half thousand people.
In the 1960s, Michael Gambon started his career alongside Laurence Olivier as an original member of the Royal National Theatre.