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.
Life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is often stalked by violence – like last night’s deadly attack by settlers which we reported earlier. When the American journalist Nathan Thrall decided to write about their experience, he wanted to expose what he called a moral catastrophe and expressed the hope that people would read…
We spoke to William Schomburg who heads the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation in Gaza. He has spent most of the last 18 months in Gaza. We began by asking him about the decline he’s seen since the beginning of the war.
The Ukrainian MP Oleksandra Ustinova spends a lot of her time in the United States, talking to, and lobbying, American politicians. We spoke to her earlier in Detroit and began by asking about the contrasting advances Russia and Ukraine are making.
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.
We’re joined by Ambassador David Satterfield, who served as the US special envoy for Middle East Humanitarian issues until April this year.
We spoke to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and discussed the talks which will resume tomorrow for the release of the Israeli hostages.
Nina Jankowicz was the Executive Director of the Disinformation Governance Board of the United States – and is now Co-founder and CEO of the American Sunlight Project, an organisation tackling disinformation.
We spoke to Julian Hendy, the founder of the Hundred Families charity, and Dr Colin King, a mental health survivor who’s become a practitioner himself.
We were joined from Moscow by Nina Khrushcheva – a professor of international relations based in New York.
We were joined by the Director of Military Sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, Matthew Savill.
We spoke to the Israeli writer and activist Gershon Baskin who has in the past negotiated hostage deals between Israel and Hamas.
We speak to Alina Frolova, the former Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine, about the decision to send troops into Russia.
We spoke to His Majesty’s Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor, and started by asking whether an already stretched prison system can cope with an influx of convicted rioters.
We’re joined by Nick Emmerson – president of the Law Society of England and Wales. Some of the members are now under threat from the far-right.
Democracy is under attack across the western world – from external powers like Russia, China and Iran, and from inside: the rise of populism, disinformation and organised crime.