Matt Frei , Europe Editor and Presenter
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.
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Americans still feel ‘anxiety’ despite economy improvement, says US Trade Representative
We’re joined by US Trade Representative Katherine Tai.
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People want someone ‘who will fight back’, says Obama White House senior director
We’re joined by Nayyera Haq, who was a senior director in the Obama White House administration.
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DNC: Obamas stress ‘tight’ election race
The Obamas’ back-to-back speeches electrified Democrats, bringing energy to the Convention, messages of hope reminiscent of 2008 and eviscerating Donald Trump.
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Gender will be foremost issue in US election says feminist scholar
We spoke to Roxane Gay, a feminist scholar, social commentator and author, whose latest eBook is ‘Stand Your Ground – a Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem’.
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Harris must bring ‘hope, joy and optimism’ says former Obama speechwriter
We spoke to Terry Szuplat, a former speechwriter for Barack Obama, and author of the upcoming book ‘Say It Well’.
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Emotional Biden passes torch to Harris at Democratic National Convention
Joe Biden got several minutes of emotional, standing ovation here in Chicago – Democrats cheering his dedication and surely also his decision to pass the baton to Kamala Harris.
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Democrats ‘not been this joyous, happy, confident, united’ in years, says strategist
We’re joined by Simon Rosenberg, a party strategist who founded the New Democrat Network.
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Democrats gather in Chicago ahead of national convention week
In a few hours time Chicago will be filled with thousands of delegates and party grandees.
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Why Pulitzer Prize winner Nathan Thrall wrote about a deadly West Bank school bus crash in 2012
His book ‘A Day in the Life of Abed Salama’ focused on a school bus crash in 2012, which killed 6 Palestinian children.
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Neighbourhoods in Gaza have been left ‘totally devoid’ of humanity, says ICRC
We spoke to William Schomburg who heads the International Committee of the Red Cross delegation in Gaza.
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Ukraine has ‘changed the paradigm of the war’, says Ukrainian politician
The Ukrainian MP Oleksandra Ustinova spends a lot of her time in the United States, talking to, and lobbying, American politicians.
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‘This war is happening between two bad actors,’ says Sudanese political activist
We spoke to Sudanese political activist Amgad Fareid Eltayeb and started by asking him whether he thought the talks between the Sudanese Armed Forces and the rival Rapid Support Forces were futile.
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‘No way to justify deaths of innocent Palestinians and Israelis’, says ex-US ambassador to Middle East
We’re joined by Ambassador David Satterfield, who served as the US special envoy for Middle East Humanitarian issues until April this year.
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‘It can go out of control’: Former Israel PM Ehud Olmert on Middle East escalation
We spoke to former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and discussed the talks which will resume tomorrow for the release of the Israeli hostages.
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‘When Musk amplifies disinformation it leads to offline violence in many cases’ – disinformation expert
Nina Jankowicz was the Executive Director of the Disinformation Governance Board of the United States – and is now Co-founder and CEO of the American Sunlight Project, an organisation tackling disinformation.
