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  • 23 Jan 2012

    Hugh Cudlipp lecture: Poised for journalism's golden age

    Channel 4 News Presenter Jon Snow gave the Hugh Cudlipp lecture at the London College of Communication. You can read the full text of his speech here.

  • 18 Jan 2012

    As hundreds of Britain’s best athletes strive to compete at London 2012, Channel 4 News catches up with one Olympic hopeful who auctioned himself on eBay to be in with a chance.

  • 12 Jan 2012

    Some of the UK’s biggest companies join the campaign to promote fairer work experience opportunities, as Cathy Newman takes two interns to meet Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.

  • 3 Jan 2012

    Oil company BP has asked contractor Halliburton to pay all of its billions of pounds of costs over the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe.

  • 7 Dec 2011

    Paula Radcliffe condemns a government decision to double the budget for London 2012’s opening and closing ceremonies, while one of Britain’s fastest sprinters turns to eBay to raise funds to train.

  • 28 Nov 2011

    Ahead of his autumn statement, Channel 4 News looks at the political team helping Chancellor George Osborne try to deliver a progressive economic policy.

  • 23 Nov 2011

    The prime minister is facing questions over the details of a purchase of land in his constituency home following an investigation by Channel 4 News.

  • 22 Nov 2011

    Will the coalition try to impose its party funding plan on Labour?

    The committee also expects the Tories and the Lib Dems to cook up some kind of cosy deal and try to impose it on Labour after the next round of failed party talks about party spending, writes Gary Gibbon.

  • 14 Nov 2011

    Private detective Glenn Mulcaire’s notebooks suggest he may have hacked phones for the Sun and the Daily Mirror as well as the News of the World, the Leveson inquiry hears. Andy Davies reports.

  • 14 Oct 2011

    In the wake of Dr Fox’s resignation, foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller reveals the links with private interests that allowed Dr Fox to run what some called ‘a shadow foreign policy’.

  • 11 Oct 2011

    The NHS should pay for organ donors’ funerals to encourage more volunteers and boost life-saving operations, says a new bioethics report.

  • 10 Oct 2011

    Defence Secretary Liam Fox is to face questions from MPs over his relationship with Adam Werritty, as a report into his conduct is handed to the prime minister.

  • 5 Oct 2011

    “Significantly more people who have credit cards are sensibly paying off their balance every month rather than getting into debt at all. They are increasingly using the card as a payment tool rather than a source of credit.”

  • 27 Sep 2011

    In his keynote Labour conference address, party leader Ed Miliband offers a “new bargain” to the people of Britain. Top Labour figures tell Channel 4 News the speech was “typical Ed”.

  • 13 Sep 2011

    Calls for political reform spun out of the expenses scandal of 2009 and hurtled towards last year’s general election, with all three major parties promising change in their manifestos. Labour proposed a non-partisan parliamentary boundary review that would look at the rules for the redistribution of seats, as well as an Alternative Vote (AV) referendum. Its manifesto said: “The cost of politics to the taxpayer must be minimised but we reject using this as an excuse to gerrymander constituency boundaries in the interest of one political party.” The Tories meanwhile championed a 10 per cent cut in the number of MPs, while the Lib Dem manifesto stated that it would making voting fairer by introducing Single Transferable Vote (STV) for elections, the number of MPs could be cut from 650 to 500. We’ve already said no to AV, so now it’s down to the boundary changes to kick start reform. But is it fair, or are the Tories manipulating the system?