Ciaran Jenkins , Data Correspondent and Presenter
Ciaran Jenkins is the Data Correspondent and Presenter for Channel 4 News based in the Leeds newsroom.
He covers a wide range of stories, from home and social affairs to sport and technology. He has reported exclusively for Channel 4 News on international phone hacking scams and police racism.
Ciaran joined Channel 4 News in 2012 from the BBC, where he had specialised in politics and then education. During his time at the BBC he broke a series of exclusives on bogus academics and visa fraud, for which he won a number of awards.
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‘Our reputation has been hacked away over the course of the past three years’ says the chair of the International Development Committee
We spoke to Labour MP Sarah Champion and Rama Hansraj, Save the Children’s Country Director for Yemen.
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UK foreign aid: Thousands of women could die due to cuts
Ministers were warned by their own advisers that cutting the UK’s foreign aid budget means thousands of women in Africa will die in pregnancy and childbirth
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‘We have had to sell her house’: Inside England’s care home funding crisis
There’s a crisis of funding in England’s elderly care homes.
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Does the UK need more North Sea oil and gas extraction?
A major contrast now between the two main parties – Labour would issue no new oil and gas licences.
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154 child asylum seekers remain missing from the official accommodation in the UK
The problem of asylum seeking children missing from Home Office hotels is still unsolved.
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Many promised European ‘gigafactories’ are ‘already at risk of never materialising,’ says economic security expert
We’re joined from Brussels by Tobias Gehrke, a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, specialising in economic security.
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How does the UK’s electric car battery production compare to the rest of the world?
As Jaguar Land Rover announce plans for a new ‘gigafactory’, how does the UK’s electric car battery production compare to the rest of the world?
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Murdered private detective Daniel Morgan’s family agree to Met Police settlement
It’s taken 36 years, but the Metropolitan Police has now admitted its investigation into the brutal murder of Daniel Morgan was “marred by a cycle of corruption, professional incompetence and defensiveness”.
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Wimbledon: Carlos Alcaraz ‘incredible mental resolve’, says sport psychologist
To Wimbledon now, where after almost 5 hours and five sets of play, the 20 year old Spanish player Carlos Alcaraz is serving for the championship against the reigning champion Novak Djokovic.
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‘The crisis of Indian media is very unique’, says Indian journalist
We spoke with the documentary’s director Vinay Shukla and Ravish Kumar himself.
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India: new documentary raises concerns about journalist loyalties to Modi
In the last month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi got the red carpet treatment on visits to the United States and France – despite persistent questions about attacks on minorities in India.
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Climate change is ‘here and now’, says Cambridge Zero Director
We spoke to Professor Emily Shuckburgh, a climate scientist and director of Cambridge Zero – Cambridge University’s research unit which aims to offer responses to the climate crisis.
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AI warfare ‘more likely’ to make battlefield mistakes, says Queen Mary University senior lecturer
We spoke to Dr Elke Schwarz – she is an associate professor of political theory and the author of “Death machines: The ethics of violent technologies”.
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Disposable vapes provide ‘much safer alternative’ to smoking, says Totally Wicked Group boss
Manufacturers insist vaping helps people quit smoking and is preferable to cigarettes.
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What happened to 200 missing asylum seeking children?
When the government revealed earlier this year that 200 unaccompanied asylum seeker children were missing from Home Office-provided hotels, it made headlines around the world.
