Cathy Newman

Presenter and investigations editor for Channel 4 News Cathy Newman spent over a decade in Fleet Street, latterly with the Financial Times. Since joining Channel 4 News in 2006 she has broadcast a string of scoops, including an eight-year investigation unmasking the most prolific abuser in the Church of England, barrister John Smyth. That story led to an Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, being forced out of office for the first time in history. 

She was named Woman of the Year by Women in Journalism in January this year, and Network Journalist of the Year by the Royal Television Society in March. She also received the RTS award for interview of the year for her interview with Welby. She has also broadcast sexual harassment allegations against the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Rennard, and an investigation into a British sex offender, Simon Harris, which saw him jailed for 17 years. She was the only broadcast journalist to travel to Congo with Angelina Jolie and William Hague, then Foreign Secretary, as part of a campaign against sexual violence. Her studio interviews are frequently news-making, and many have gone viral.