1. Matthias "Matt" Frei was born on 26 November 1963 and is a British-German television news journalist and writer, formerly the Washington, DC correspondent for Channel 4 News.
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In 1973 the family moved to the United Kingdom, where Matt Frei's father became a London correspondent for radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk.
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Matt Frei was educated at Westminster School, then read history and Spanish at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, graduating in 1986.
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Matt Frei joined the BBC and spent a year in the German section of the World Service, before he moved to English language current affairs, where he worked for another year.
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Matt Frei took up the post of Bonn correspondent in Germany on the same day as the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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In 1990, Matt Frei took a holiday in Zimbabwe and persuaded aid worker friend Katty Kay to become a journalist.
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In 2005, Matt Frei reported from the centre of New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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On 1 October 2007, Matt Frei became the first presenter of the BBC World News one-hour Washington-based news broadcast, BBC World News America, supported by correspondent Katty Kay.
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In January 2011, Matt Frei presented the BBC's Newsnight as a relief presenter.
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Matt Frei presented his own BBC documentary on the life and times of the German capital, Berlin.
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Matt Frei would serve as the broadcaster's Washington correspondent for Channel 4 News, as well as reporting for the channel's other news programmes.
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Matt Frei has since returned often from Washington and has become a semi-regular presenter on Channel 4's evening news slot.
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In October 2012, Matt Frei headed Channel 4's coverage of the US presidential election, including making a documentary, The American Road Trip: Obama's story, in which he visited middle-class voters in communities in the mid-west, including Minneapolis, Northwood, Ohio and Gary, Indiana.