Cathy Newman

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Catherine Elizabeth Newman (born 14 July 1974) is an English journalist and presenter of Channel 4 News. Newman began her career as a newspaper journalist, and had spells at Media Week, The Independent, the Financial Times and The Washington Post.

She has worked on Channel 4 News since 2006, initially as a correspondent and, since 2011, as a presenter.

Early life

Born in Guildford, Newman is the younger daughter of David Newman and Julia Worsdall, both chemistry teachers, and has one sister. She 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. She has said that she stayed silent for years about the sexual harassment and other humiliation she experienced from fellow pupils. She 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. Newman read English at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she graduated with first-class honours.

Personal life

Newman married writer John O'Connell, whom she met at university, in 2001. The couple live in London with their two daughters. 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.

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Career

Newman spent a brief time on The Guardian's Books section, then at Media Week (as a trainee) and The Independent (as a journalist), before joining the Financial Times at the age of 23. Alice Rawsthorn, her elder sister, served as a mentor at the FT, where Newman spent time as a journalist and then as a political reporter for three years. David Yelland, editor of The Sun, suggested that she be branded "Better than Lex" (named after Lex, a column in the Financial Times) while Newman was working at the FT). She seriously considered the offer but then declined; the education gained her further in political journalism. In 2000, Newman began working on television. Laurence Stern fellowship to work at The Washington Post for four months. During her time in the United States, she followed Ralph Nader's 2000 presidential campaign.

She joined Channel 4 News in January 2006 as a political reporter and deputy to political editor Gary Gibbon. She broke many news, including allegations that the Treasury pushed through the nomination of then-Chancellor Gordon Browns as the Lord of Lords, and that she and then Chancellor Gordon Brown chastised Peter Mandelson for the Brighton Labour Party conference in 2009 over the use of the word "c" word in a chat with Rebekah Brooks (née Wade), CEO of News International.

In addition to this, she has also worked with the FactCheck blog.

Newman's quest for information about Lord Rennard's suspected misconduct, from 2013 to 2015, included calls from LBC local London radio phone-in to question deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg on the subject. During her time as a Westminster reporter, Newman has said that sexism was endemic at Westminster, but that the newspaper industry is even worse. In a Red magazine interview in 2016, she told Natasha Lunn: "I feel the obligation to make sure we announce those topics." I've always wanted to correct injustices, but I think what's changed is that journalists now have a keener sense of how journalists can hold power to account." In 2013: Newman, the victim of online misdeeding of trolls, gave her praise for their "public humiliation" of trolls: "The only way to deal with these people is to publicly humiliate them."

Newman has appeared on various media outlets as a guest panelist on Have I Got News for You and blogs for The Daily Telegraph and Economia magazine, as a regular commentator on politics.

In 2010, and again in 2011 for the blog award, the newman was long-listed for the Orwell Prize (Journalism). In 2015, she was named as one of the judges for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.

As she marched into the South London Islamic Centre for a 'Visit My Mosque' programme, Newman said she was "ushered onto the street" for being female. As the news spread, the mosque started receiving violent public insults. According to a spokesperson for the Hyderi Islamic Centre, Newman had simply arrived at the wrong address, and a CCTV video showed Newman leaving the building on her own initiative. Ben de Pear, a Channel 4 News reporter, later apologized for the Newman's mistakenly visit to the wrong building.

Following an announcement from Buckingham Palace earlier in the day, Queen Elizabeth II's death was announced on September 8, 2022.

Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychologist and author, was interviewed by Newman on January 16, 2018. The interview covered topics such as gender discrimination, freedom of expression, and transgender rights. During the 29-minute interview, short clips, gifs, and memes of the fiery back-and-forth went viral, particularly Newman's repeated use of the word "So you're saying..."

Many YouTube commentators were critical of Newman, with a substantial number of them saying she had "a preconceived and misplaced perception of Peterson's views," wrote Jamie Doward of The Guardian. David Brooks, a columnist for The New York Times, criticized Newman for not listening to Peterson and instead "distort[ing] and reiterate[ing] his views to make them appear ignorant and cartoonish."

Ben de Pear, a Channel 4 News editor, said that the station called in security experts to respond to social media abuse and threats directed toward her. "There were literally thousands of inflammatory tweets," the newman later said, in a semi-organised movement. It ranged from the common "cunt, bitch, dumb blonde" to "I'm going to find out where you live and execute you." Peterson said on Twitter that there were "no evidence that the allegations were legitimate" and that misogyny was "ridiculous." Following the interview, Newman's Wikipedia article was "rapidly edited back and forth" for many weeks. According to a Newman, women are generally misrepresented in their Wikipedia biographies because the "internet is being edited by men with a goal."

Bloody Brilliant Women, Newman's book about important, but unheralded, twentieth-century women, was published in 2018. The book contains case studies of both well-known and less well-known women in British history, with parallels drawn between their lives and those of contemporary women.

In early 2020, Newman was announced as the host of their Friday drive time show by forthcoming radio station Times Radio. When she isn't being a Times Radio presenter, she continues to host Channel 4 News.

On Channel 4 News, Conor Burns, minister of Northern Ireland, talked to Newman about the imminent release of Sue Gray's study into alleged parties at 10 Downing Street, in breach of COVID-19 lockdowns. Burns tried to defend Prime Minister Boris Johnson by arguing that one party to celebrate Johnson's birthday "was not a premeditated, organized group." He was, in a sense, ambushed with a cake." Burns was quickly dismissed by the interview, sparking thousands of social media memes, and the interview went viral, sparking thousands of social media memes, and it was widely mocked. Nigella Lawson, a food writer, joked on Twitter that she intended to use the word as the subject for her new book. When asked if President Joe Biden had ever been ambushed with a cake at her daily press briefing, Jen Psaki wondered on February 1st, 2022. "Not that I'm aware of." She replied, "Not that I'm aware of."

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