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 Dr Saleyha Ahsan, who lost her father to Covid, a filmmaker, and is part of the group, Covid-19 Bereaved families for Justice.
We spoke to Charlie Taylor, the Chief Inspector of Prisons and the Conservative MP Laura Farris, who served on the Justice committee
We spoke to Kevin Brennan, Labour MP for Cardiff West.
Martin Amis, one of the leading figures in British literature, has died at the age of 73. His language bristled with invention, sharp wit, dark humour and uncompromising satire.
The outcome of the Ukraine-Russia war is far from clear, but what’s certain is that the conflict has transformed the global identities of both sides.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s speeding row could threaten public confidence in the criminal justice system, says Alistair Carmichael MP, Liberal Democrat Home Affairs and Justice Spokesperson
Phillip Schofield has stepped down from his role presenting ITV’s This Morning following persistent rumours that his relationship with his colleagues on the programme had broken down.
China is a vehicle to get to Russia, says Former Diplomat representing Ireland at the UN and EU and who now teaches Diplomacy at Oxford University, Jennifer Cassidy.
We spoke to Matteo Lepore, mayor of Bologna, and asked him whether these are really the worst floods he has seen in the region in the last hundred years.
We spoke to Conservative MP Philip Dunne, the chairman of the Commons Environmental Audit Committee, and began by asking him whether ‘sorry’ and offers to fix ‘some of the problem’ is good enough when the taxpayer is being asked to pay for it.
Yesterday Ukraine got the pledge of British attack drones and long range missiles.
We spoke to Jamie Njoku-Goodwin – who’s chief executive of UK music and Sarah Myers West, who is Managing Director of the AI Now Institute.
If tomorrow is all about high ceremony, Sunday is the big party – crowned by a concert at Windsor Castle packed with celebrity names.
We spoke to Chandrika Kaul, professor of modern history at the University of St Andrews.
Tomorrow the Mall will echo with the sound of horses hooves, bugles, and carriage wheels as thousands of ceremonial soldiers accompany a new King to a very old throne.