Jackie Long is social affairs editor and presenter for Channel 4 News.
Jackie Long is Channel 4 News Social affairs editor and presenter. She joined the programme in 2011, following more than two decades at the BBC. Most recently she was Correspondent at Newsnight, and she previously worked on The World at One, PM and Five Live.
We were joined from Sao Paulo by the author Richard Lapper, who’s written a book about the rise of right-wing populism in Brazil entitled Beef, Bible and Bullets – Brazil in the age of Bolsonaro.
South Korea is in mourning after more than 150 people were killed – many in their teens and early 20s – when they were crushed during last night’s Halloween celebrations in the capital, Seoul.
In an extended interview with Channel 4 News, as she launches The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg speaks about how she deals with online trolls and why she feels hopeful about the fight against climate change even as the world approaches a “precipice”.
Ukraine has warned citizens to expect even longer blackouts, after more energy infrastructure was damaged by Russian attacks.
We spoke to Bruce Daisley, who was a vice-president at Twitter between 2015 and 2020, and is author of Fortitude – Unpicking the Myth of Resilience.
Australia has become the first football team participating in next month’s World Cup to openly criticise Qatar’s human rights record.
We were joined by Nigel Povoas KC, a British prosecutor who leads an international team investigating alleged war crimes in Ukraine.
We were joined by Conservative MP Huw Merriman, who is backing Rishi Sunak in the leadership.
We were joined by Tim Montgomerie, a Conservative activist, and Lord Jonathan Marland, the Conservative Peer who held several ministerial roles under David Cameron.
The sexual abuse of children is an “epidemic that leaves tens of thousands of victims in its poisonous wake”, according to a seven-year inquiry into institutional failings in England and Wales.
We’re joined from Westminster by the author of the government-commissioned National Food Strategy and co-founder of Chefs in Schools, Henry Dimbleby.
The government’s decision to shorten the energy support scheme – and the warning of spending cuts to come – could have a major effect on the finances of families up and down the country. We discussed this with Helen Barnard, from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the anti-poverty campaign group.
Each time the Met Police fails in its duties, there are consequences – and sometimes they’re devastating. In July last year, a member of the public became concerned about the welfare of a woman, who they’d spotted alone in a park late at night. They alerted two Met officers, who were attending a separate incident,…
We spoke to Tony Sales, a reformed fraudster who co-founded the crime prevention group We Fight Fraud, and Dr Nicola Harding, who is a criminologist at Lancaster University.
Loan sharks are exploiting the cost of living crisis to prey on the most vulnerable families, specialist investigators have told Channel 4 News.