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 spoke to Sarah Wollaston – a GP and former Conservative MP, who split with the party over Brexit and unsuccessfully ran as a Lib Dem candidate in the last election.
We spoke to Health Minister Maria Caulfield, and I began by asking her how she could explain the figures in Victoria’s report that four in 5 locums – qualified GPs – were unable to find work.
We spoke to Business Minister Kevin Hollinrake.
Our presenter and Europe editor Matt Frei speaks to Salomé Saqué, a Political commentator and author, and Hélène de Lauzun, from The European Conservative.
President Macron has taken a gamble which no one was expecting – calling snap elections which one of his ministers warned could have the “most serious consequences” in modern French history.
President Emmanuel Macron of France has called for the snappiest of snap elections. Why has he done that?
We spoke to Shadow Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson. We began by asking her about Labour’s pledge to reform the current apprenticeship levy, in order to train up more UK workers, and how it would all be funded.
We spoke to the Science and Innovation Minister Andrew Griffith and we began by asking why Rishi Sunak had been to so many seats the Tories already hold – sometimes with big majorities – but Labour’s campaign was seemingly showing far greater ambition.
The African National Congress party has lost its majority in South Africa’ parliament for the first time since the collapse of apartheid thirty years ago.
Some in Gaza have been expressing their thanks to American students for their support – but it is a ceasefire that they long for.
Earlier we spoke to the Republican pollster Frank Luntz, and started by asking him why it had taken Joe Biden until today to speak about the protests.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has touched down in Tel Aviv tonight.
We spoke to the leader of the local council, Jas Athwal, and we began by asking him how he heard about the attack and what his immediate reaction was.
It’s like an Agatha Christie mystery – but with giant vegetables. That’s one way of seeing the comedy-thriller Swede Caroline – a new mockumentary set in the cut-throat world of over-sized veg competitions. The movie follows up-and-coming star Caroline who, after having her prized marrows stolen, is led on a chase through corporate corruption, insider…
We’ve been speaking to the civil rights activist The Reverend Al Sharpton. He discussed the coming US election and the decision by philosophy professor and left-wing activist Cornel West to run for the presidency as an independent. But first, we began by asking him about the pro-Palestine demonstrations that have divided people on US campuses.