Cathy Newman

Cathy Newman is the first female main presenter of Channel 4 News. She 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 led to the Archbishop of Canterbury being forced out of office for the first time in history and in January 2025 saw Cathy named Woman of the Year by Women in Journalism.

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.

Her first best-selling book – Bloody Brilliant Women: Pioneers, Revolutionaries & Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention – about female pioneers in 20th century Britain, was published by HarperCollins in Autumn 2018.

Her second book, It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared To Be Different, was published on October 15, 2020 by HarperCollins.

Her third book, The Ladder, based on her weekly Times Radio interviews with leading women, was published in February 2024, again by HarperCollins.

You can read about Cathy’s investigation into John Smyth here: How a cover-up forced the Archbishop of Canterbury from office.