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
“How bad are the pics?” That was the Whatsapp message from former Health Secretary Matt Hancock when he found out that a photo of him kissing his aide in his office was about to hit the front pages – and one of the latest of his messages to be published by the Telegraph today.
The former Yorkshire County cricketer Azeem Rafiq has been giving evidence at the English Cricket Board hearing into allegations of institutional racism at the club – which has been accused of bringing the game into disrepute.
A spy who sold secrets to Russia while working at the British embassy in Berlin has been jailed for more than thirteen years.
People from Britain’s Turkish and Syrian communities have responded quickly to the earthquake crisis.
For many in the UK, the desire to help is highly personal, as people with family and friends in the area anxiously search for news, and mobilise to get assistance to those who need it.
Almost half of young people expect sex to involve physical aggression, according to a new report on pornography.
The airline Flybe has cancelled all flights in and out of the UK after going into administration.
Social media bosses who repeatedly fail to protect children from online harms will face jail, after the Government was forced to head off a potential rebellion by Tory backbenchers. Under the changes to the Online Safety Bill, executives whose platforms fail to block content involving abuse, suicide and self harm could get two years in…
Now the cost of living crisis and soaring inflation are piling even more pressure on people who are already struggling to pay their bills. And that’s taking a toll on their mental health.
The Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended his government’s planned judicial reforms – denying claims that they would result in “the end of democracy”.
More than 150,000 young people in the UK are currently estranged from their parents, according to new research.
The government’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda was supposed to deter people from trying to cross the Channel to reach the UK on small boats.
As the energy crisis bites – there’s been a surge in suppliers moving customers on to prepayment meters.
A vigil was held in the West Midlands for the four boys who died after falling into an icy lake last Sunday.
As many schools break up today, parents whose children receive free school lunches will have to find money for extra meals. For those who don’t qualify, we’ve been gathering first-hand evidence of how the cost of living crisis is impacting packed lunches.