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
Israeli forces say they’ve killed another senior leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, after the militant group fired another barrage of rockets from Gaza into southern Israel for a fifth day running. The fighting so far has killed 33 Palestinians in Gaza and one woman in central Israel. Egypt is still leading efforts to broker…
The Mirror newspaper group has apologised to Prince Harry on the first day of his court case against them.
The early morning scramble to get a doctor’s appointment will be a thing of the past, according to the Government – which says it’s giving GP practices a total of £240 million “to embrace new technology”.
The focus has shifted from Westminster to Windsor where thousands of people are getting the chance to celebrate the coronation in grounds of the castle. William and Kate shook hands and met children there as they went on a surprise walkabout.
Earlier this week, the Metropolitan Police said they would have an “extremely low threshold” for protests during the coronation celebrations, and that demonstrators could expect “swift action”. They say a total of 52 arrests had been made for affray, public order offences, breach of the peace and conspiracy to cause a public nuisance around the…
A senior Nigerian politician and his wife have been jailed by a London court – for conspiring to traffic a young man to the UK to harvest his kidney.
Prince Harry has confirmed he will be attending his father King Charles’s coronation next month at Westminster Abbey.
Hundreds of mourners have gathered at the funeral of the two British-Israeli sisters who were shot dead in an attack in the occupied West Bank. 20 year old Maia Dee and her sister Rina who was fifteen, were on their way to a holiday with other family members, when their car came under fire. The…
China is staging three days of “combat readiness” patrols around Taiwan – sending military resources towards the island to practice encircling it. Beijing, which claims Taiwan is a breakway province – staged the drills after the Taiwanese president promised to continue working with the United States and other democracies following a meeting with the speaker…
Prince Harry, Sir Elton John and other high profile figures have turned up at the High Court in London in their legal action against the Daily Mail publishers Associated Newspapers.
A leading Nigerian politician, along with his wife and a doctor have been found guilty of organ trafficking – after bringing a young man over from Nigeria and offering him an illegal reward to donate his kidney to the couple’s daughter.
Teaching unions have called for Ofsted to pause school inspections in England after the family of a head teacher said she took her own life as a result of one of its reports.
Gary Lineker says he is delighted to be back at Match of the Day – thanking supporters for their “remarkable show of solidarity”.
Seven people including an unborn baby have been killed in a shooting in Germany by a gunman who then took his own life.
Donald Trump says he could end the war between Ukraine and Russia ‘in one day.’