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 spoke to Professor Francois Balloux, a geneticist at University College London, and started by asking how hopeful we should be about early research suggesting Omicron being a milder variant.
Today marks four and a half years since the Grenfell fire, a tragedy which claimed the lives of 72 people.
Britain must urgently address its alcohol problem to stop more record-breaking deaths, one of the country’s leading liver specialists has warned as Channel 4 News was granted exclusive access to a specialist liver unit.
Amid the growing public outcry, some of the most potent anger has come from those who lost loved ones to Covid or suffered alone in order not to break lockdown rules.
We spoke to Alison Cope, whose son Joshua was killed by 18-year-old Armani Mitchell eight years ago. He was jailed for life. Also with us is Leroy Logan who’s a retired Metropolitan Police superintendent.
The number of teenagers convicted of murder has more than doubled in five years in England and Wales, according to government data exclusively obtained by Channel 4 News.
There have tragically been cases like Arthur Labinjo-Hughes before.
We spoke to Belgian MEP Saskia Bricmont about Europe’s response to the latest migration crisis and what politicians need to do now.
We spoke to Prisca Thevenot, spokesperson for La République En Marche, the party of President Macron.
We spoke to vaccinologist Professor Shabir Madhi in Johannesburg, who led the clinical study for the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine in South Africa.
The report has been released just months after inspectors issued a rare, urgent warning.
As the sport’s leaders promise “tangible” action to address the crisis in cricket, we spoke to former test match umpire John Holder.
We spoke to the Albanian ambassador to the UK, Qirjako Qirko, and we asked him if Albania is one of the countries the British government is hoping to partner with when it comes to processing asylum seekers.
In Europe, a wave of Covid infections is spreading, and authorities are racing to curb the trend before the winter kicks in.
After hours of speeches, intense negotiation and endless media coverage, it’s perhaps what happens outside of the conference hall after it all ends that matters most.