Anja Popp is an award-winning reporter, covering human-interest, counterculture and justice stories both at home and abroad.
In 2019, Anja was awarded the RTS Young Talent of the Year award and later won a Mind Media award with her team. In 2018 she was part of a three-person team shortlisted for an Orwell Award.
She began her Channel 4 News career in Washington DC as an intern in 2014, and has since been a guest booker and a producer, before becoming a reporter in 2018.
Anja regularly reports on Channel 4 News’ Uncovered series on Facebook, her film on Femicide in Mexico was nominated for an RTS award in 2020.
Anja has also worked on several Channel 4 Dispatches programmes, first as a researcher and imbedded undercover reporter, and most recently reporting on an hour-long investigation
Forty-thousand police officers are being deployed across France to try to prevent a third night of rioting.
Cricket – a game that is currently delighting fans with both the male and female Ashes – is also a sport riddled with antique levels of racism, snobbery and sexism.
There are warnings from homeless charities that the mortgage squeeze is further deepening the housing crisis, with Shelter saying the number of people stuck in temporary accommodation is now at ’emergency levels’.
For the past two years a handful of local authorities in England and Wales have trialled a new approach to tackling the drugs problem in their communities. Disrupting criminal gangs, while at the same time supporting addicts to stay clean, thus reducing the demand. A two-pronged approach which they say is paying dividends.
In Westminster, the parliamentary Privileges Committee report into the Partygate scandal is due to be published in the next few days.
Four children have been found alive in the Colombian Amazon, forty days after the plane they were travelling in crashed into the jungle.
The question of where Banksy’s should end up, and who – if anyone – should profit from their sale often seems to raise as many moral conundrums as the artist’s works themselves.
After more than three decades out of the top flight of English football, Luton Town have celebrated their return with a massive street party.
After more than three decades out of the top flight of English football, Luton Town have celebrated their return with a massive street party.
The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has praised the country’s air defence forces – after the biggest Russian drone attack on the capital Kyiv, since the beginning of the full scale war.
Long queues have been building up at major airports around the UK after electronic passport gates stopped working – leaving many passengers forced to wait for several hours.
The latest hunt for clues in the 16 year search for missing Madeleine McCann has ended.
Police in Portugal investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann have started digging at a spot next to a reservoir in the Algarve – around 30 miles from where the toddler went missing in 2007.
The Real Madrid forward Vinicius Junior has met the president of his club – after he was subjected to a barrage of abuse during yesterday’s match against Valencia.
Mature students trying to get a place at UK universities are worried that their chances could be affected by strike action.