Matt Frei is Europe Editor and Presenter at Channel 4 News.
This year he has led the Channel 4 News coverage of events in Ukraine from the crash site of Malaysia flight MH17, to the tensions in Crimea and reported live from Independence Square on Kiev’s bloodiest day. He has also secured major interviews with Bill Clinton, George W Bush and Aung San Suu Kyi.
Prior to his appointment as Europe Editor for Channel 4 News, Frei was the Washington Correspondent for two years and has reported on the Americas on everything from business and culture to US foreign policy and its view of the world.
He is also part of the presenting team across Channel 4's news and current affairs portfolio, including the award-winning Dispatches programme.
Matt previously anchored the BBC World News America bulletin and was also Washington Correspondent. He presented a weekly radio show called Americana, and in two decades at the corporation reported from Bonn, Rome, Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa, Hong Kong and Singapore.
He is the author of two books: Italy: The Unfinished Revolution published in 1996 by Random House and Mandarin books and Only In America published in 2008 by 4th Estate.
We’re joined by Nayyera Haq, who was a senior director in the Obama White House administration, and Republican pollster Whit Ayres.
We’re joined by Sarah Churchwell, who’s professor of American Culture and Humanities at the University of London.
We’re joined by Labour’s Emily Thornberry, who’s chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, and Conservative MP and former Security Minister Tom Tugendhat.
We’re joined by pollster and political advisor James Johnson, who correctly predicted the scale of this win for Donald Trump.
We’re joined by Democratic Representative of Pennsylvania Andre Carroll, and Republican strategist Dennis Powell.
By the early hours of this morning we might just know who’s going to be the next occupant of the White House. Or if it’s really close – maybe not. But here are some key points to look out for if you’re planning to be up all night to watch.
We spoke to staff writer at The Atlantic, Christine Emba, and JT Young, who’s a political analyst and former Congressional policy adviser.
The US election doesn’t just have an effect in the country or on the border, but far beyond the United States, with major ramifications for Ukraine, the Middle East and the EU depending on who wins. We spoke to Anne Applebaum, the Pulitzer prize winning American journalist and historian, and author of ‘Autocracy Inc. –…
One of the things that makes US elections so unpredictable is the electoral college system. It means the winner of the popular vote doesn’t always become president and some states become much more important than others.
We spoke to Matt Terrill, who ran Marco Rubio’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, and Susan Platt, who was Chief of Staff to Joe Biden when he was in the Senate. Matt Frei: So at the beginning of the programme, we said that there are two very divergent tones in these final…
We speak to Democratic strategist Julie Roginsky, who’s in Pennsylvania, and Republican strategist Kristin Davison, who’s in New Mexico as the campaigns head into the final days.
The US election is now a mere two days away, and Donald Trump is racing around three of the seven crucial swing states, while Kamala Harris is focusing her campaigning on Michigan.
America always elects its President on the first Tuesday of November which means that elections always come just after Halloween.
We last spoke to Eddie S. Glaude Jr., a Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University four years ago, before the previous election.
We were joined by Janelle King who’s an election official in Georgia and former deputy director of the state Republican party.