Cathy Newman is the first female main presenter of Channel 4 News.
She joined the programme in 2006 and has broadcast a string of scoops, including allegations of violent abuse against the British barrister John Smyth, sexual harassment allegations against the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard, and an investigation into a British sex offender, Simon Harris, which saw him jailed for 17 years.
Previously Cathy spent over a decade working in Fleet Street, latterly with the Financial Times.
Her book - Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention - about female pioneers in 20th century Britain, was published in autumn 2018.
Her second book, It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared To Be Different, is published on October 15, 2020.
In her spare time, Cathy is a keen amateur violinist, and plays in The Statutory Instruments quartet with members of parliament and Westminster staff.
In 2000, Cathy won the prestigious Laurence Stern Fellowship, spending four months at the Washington Post.
She is married with two children.
The government’s decision to cut winter fuel payments for pensioners is unpopular even inside the party’s conference hall.
We’re joined by Sir William Patey, the former British Ambassador to several countries, including Saudi Arabia and Iraq, who is at Labour Conference with the Labour Middle East Council.
Speaking to us from the Labour party conference in Liverpool is Business and Trade Secretary Jonathan Reynolds.
In an unexpected twist of fate, a tiny creature – a baby hare changed everything for a former political advisor, more used to the comings and goings of Westminster, than wildlife.
We spoke to Gill Walton, Chief Executive of the Royal College of Midwives.
We spoke to the Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, who’s a columnist for the Haaretz newspaper, and a longstanding critic of the Israeli government.
The embattled Chief Executive of the Post Office is stepping down after five years in the role.
Ahead of his speech at the Lib Dem Conference, Cathy Newman speaks to the leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davey about how they’ll work with the government on issues like the NHS.
We speak to Tony Smith, a former Director General of the UK Border Force.
We spoke to the Liberal Democrats Deputy Leader, Daisy Cooper, in Brighton.
We were joined by Sarah Woolnough, chief executive of the Kings Fund, and Philip Banfield, an obstetrician and council chair at the British Medical Association.
We sat down with the health secretary Wes Streeting and started the interview by putting it to him that we won’t find out what the NHS reforms will really look like until next year’s Spending Review.
At just 31, she’s one of the youngest members of the House of Lords.
Three years ago this programme was in Ethiopia to meet a talented young athlete.
We spoke to Ian Lawrence, General Secretary of NAPO, the union representing probation staff.