Cathy Newman

Catherine Elizabeth Newman (born 14 July 1974) is an English journalist, and presenter. Since April 2026, she has presented a Sky News evening politics show. She also presents a programme once a week on Times Radio. She began her career as a newspaper journalist, and had spells at Media Week, The Independent, the Financial Times and The Washington Post. She worked for Channel 4 News from 2006 to 2026, initially as a correspondent and from 2011, as a presenter. In 2018, she released Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention, a book detailing the lives of women in Britain in the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2020, she released It Takes Two: A History of the Couples Who Dared to be Different, a book about how great pairs, from rivals to romantic couples, have made history.