1. Catherine Elizabeth Newman was born on 14 July 1974 and is an English journalist, and presenter of Channel 4 News.
23 Facts About Cathy Newman
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Cathy Newman began her career as a newspaper journalist, and had spells at Media Week, The Independent, the Financial Times and The Washington Post.
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Cathy Newman has worked on Channel 4 News since 2006, initially as a correspondent and, since 2011, as a presenter.
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Cathy Newman attended a fee-paying girls school in Guildford until the age of 16, when she joined Charterhouse, where her father taught, as one of a few girls admitted to the school's sixth form.
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Cathy Newman was on the path to a career as a violinist or in the legal profession before changing her plans as a result of seeing BBC journalist Kate Adie on television.
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Cathy Newman read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she graduated with first-class honours.
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Cathy Newman seriously considered the offer, but later declined; the experience led to further opportunities in political journalism.
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Cathy Newman gained a Laurence Stern fellowship to work at The Washington Post for four months.
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Cathy Newman joined Channel 4 News in January 2006 as a political correspondent and deputy to political editor Gary Gibbon.
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Cathy Newman asked Peter Mandelson at the Brighton Labour Party conference in 2009, whether he had used the "c" word in a conversation with Rebekah Brooks, the CEO of News International.
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Cathy Newman was long-listed for the Orwell Prize in 2010 and again in 2011 for the Blog Prize.
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Cathy Newman was announced as one of the judges for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction in 2015.
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In February 2015, Cathy Newman tweeted that she was "ushered onto the street" for being female when she went to the South London Islamic Centre for a "Visit My Mosque" programme.
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On 16 January 2018, Cathy Newman interviewed Canadian psychologist and author Jordan Peterson.
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In early 2020, Cathy Newman was announced by forthcoming radio station Times Radio as the presenter of their Friday drive time programme.
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Cathy Newman continues to present Channel 4 News while being a Times Radio presenter.
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On 25 January 2022, Cathy Newman interviewed Conor Burns, minister of state for Northern Ireland, on Channel 4 News about the imminent publication of Sue Gray's report into alleged parties at 10 Downing Street in violation of COVID-19 lockdowns.
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In 2017, Cathy Newman led a Channel 4 investigation into John Smyth, barrister and friend of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, revealing Smyth's decades of abuse of boys and young men.
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Seven years later, in 2024, Cathy Newman received a leaked copy of the Makin Report and subsequently interviewed Welby for Channel 4 News.
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On 13 January 2025, Cathy Newman was awarded "Woman of the Year" by the Women in Journalism UK for her investigations into and reports on the John Smyth abuse case which spanned several years.
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In March 2025, at the Royal Television Society Journalism Awards, Cathy Newman won Network Interview of the Year and Network Television Journalist of the Year.
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In 2001 Cathy Newman married writer John O'Connell, whom she met at university.
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Cathy Newman has written about having a miscarriage, and about deciding to have an abortion, after discovering 13 weeks into her pregnancy that the foetus had a rare condition with a high mortality rate.