She even received death threats following her interview with Peterson, and Channel 4 called in security experts. The downside is that if the kids wake up in the middle of the night, they’re calling for daddy and not mummy and does that hurt a little bit?” An exhale. “I just assumed in a few years’ time that would be a level playing field. “Which is probably terribly unfeminist of me!”. “The internet is being written by men with an agenda,” she says. What do I do?’.”, Newman, understandably, is most herself – confident, commanding – talking about the news rather than about being it. here. Explore {{searchView.params.phrase}} by color family {{familyColorButtonText(colorFamily.name)}} '", She also thinks that the claim of ageism against women in TV - most notably, Miriam O'Reilly's recent victory in her discrimination claim against the BBC - "might have had its day. Plain speaking: Jordan Peterson in a confrontational interview with Channel 4 News' Cathy Newman and, below, with Douglas Murray 'He almost died from what the medical system did to him in the West.' “It’s been incredible,” she says, brightly. She is mortified at the memory and sinks back into her chair. It was a misunderstanding, because I turned up at the wrong mosque, the man thought I was asking for the church and I was shown the door.” The oxygen seems to have been sucked from the room as we both sit embarrassed. “With a big interview like Mosley, I was quite nervous because I just had no idea how it was going to go, [but] when you think the police are now investigating whether he perjured himself, when you’ve somehow changed the course of events through an interview you’ve done, are quoted all over the front pages and set the agenda …” It’s a career high. If I wore my flats, I would look like a dwarf.". But #MeToo has been about encompassing everyone, I suggest. “The only reason I can have a high-pressure job and a home and see my kids is because my husband [a writer] works from home. Born October 16, 1943 in Zanesville, OH, Charles was the son of the late Donald Scott and Edna Louise (Cavinee) Newman. It’s brilliant – fascinating.”, Available for everyone, funded by readers. He does the cooking and shopping. "We all have breakfast together, I make sure that happens because I don't see the kids in the evening," she says. She thrives on doing big political interviews – Peter Mandelson, Jeremy Corbyn, Emily Thornberry, Jeremy Hunt among her most watched – and retains an appealing home counties jolliness. She had ambitions for law or to become a professional violinist, both plans thwarted by the sight of Kate Adie reporting in a flak jacket from Baghdad, “which is ironic, because I never got to report from warzones”. ", The BBC is one of the few media organisations that Newman hasn't worked for. ", Newman welcomes the three "fantastic people" that Channel 4 has recently poached from the BBC - politico Michael Crick and social affairs editor Jackie Long, as well as Frei. She laughs, in a mischievous way that seems at odds with her serious -sometimes almost clipped - on-screen delivery. You've just got to wear stuff that's not going to be a distraction. Her boss and her family – John and their daughters, aged nine and 13 – seem far more worried than Newman herself, but for all her proud resilience, she admits it is upsetting. Channel 4 released the full 30-minute exchange on YouTube, where it has now been watched more than 8m times. Either the social media companies have to grapple with that or governments will. The latest lifestyle, fashion and travel trends, Register with your social account or click here to log in. "He's 6ft 4in, and I'm 5ft 4in. Whether her relative youth was a factor in her appointment or not, it made eminent sense for Channel 4 to put a woman on the presenting team of its male-dominated news bulletin. She started out on the trade paper Media Week, before heading to The Independent and the FT, from where The Sun tried (unsuccessfully) to poach her. You win some, you lose some.”, Still, the response to Newman since has been so intense and ugly, “on every social media platform”, that the police have been involved. “Look at a woman’s Wikipedia page and you can’t believe a word of it.” She has been monitoring her own, which has been rapidly edited back and forth in the past few weeks. Did she worry at the time that the affair would undermine her credibility? Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Her parents were chemistry teachers and she grew up in Guildford, the youngest of two daughters. And he said, 'Well, you don't have a mortgage or a family, what do you need the money for? "We went down to Tunbridge Wells to look at a school, but there were all these 4x4s and Ugg boots and I just thought, 'I can't see myself here. For her new role as Jon Snow's co-presenter on Channel 4 News, Cathy Newman has taken to wearing killer stilettos. ", In return for long hours from Monday to Thursday, Newman generally has Fridays off, leaving Guru-Murthy to be Snow's wing man. Would she have played it differently now? Newman then unreservedly apologised for the misunderstanding, alongside the editor of Channel 4 News. No way," she says. “I mean, it was stupid. "Botox? But Newman rejects suggestions that the programme is now overcomplicated. “I can’t bear to see you without makeup on,” she shouts. Young men, in particular, are feeling disenfranchised and I’m interested in how we win them back in the debate. CATHY Newman has been the face of Channel 4 News for the last eight years. Julie EtchinghamThe regular female presenter on ITV1's News at Ten, 42-year-old Etchingham, left, proved that she can do more than read an Autocue by being Alastair Stewart's co-host for ITV's election night coverage last year - and joining Phillip Schofield on the sofa for the channel's much-lauded royal wedding broadcast. But, she adds, "I wouldn't say we're out to get the BBC. "Not long after I'd joined the Financial Times, I was media correspondent and I discovered that a bloke had been hired on the Companies desk, which was the lowest level, for £10,000 more than me," she recalls. “That’s true. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Are you sure you want to submit this vote? "I think that as a woman in TV there is the additional challenge that people focus more on what you're wearing than with the blokes," she says. I didn’t think far enough ahead. It’s quite a hybrid role.”. “It would be very easy to come into the studio every night doing interviews handed to me on a plate, but I’m also trying to do investigations, dispatches and bring in exclusive interviews. '", O'Connell works from home, allowing him to do the school run, while Newman scrambles to get to ITN in the West End in time for her 9.30am news meeting. It was a stupid, stupid tweet; there was a horrible misunderstanding.” Was it not, I ask awkwardly, a bit of a lie? It is corrosive to women, no matter how tough you are, to log on and see that torrent of abuse.”, She shifts in her chair and sighs. In the old format we had research from viewers saying they were puzzled - Jon started the show while the woman was sitting in the corner. Still only 35, she is widely tipped to eventually return to the BBC as its first female political editor. Share on Facebook "Obviously, yes, it would be nice to have more women on screen, of course it would," says Newman, but points to the progress that has been made from former presenter Samira Ahmed's supporting role. “I think Theresa May must get up in the morning and think: ‘God, it’s another clusterfuck. She previously worked on This Week and The Daily Politics. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. Channel 4 News (2007-2016)as Herself - Co-Presenter / Herself - Presenter / Her, Manhunt: Closing in on a British Paedophile (2014)as Herself - Reporter, The Sunday Programme (2000-2005)as Herself - Interviewer / Herself - Presenter / Hers, Alternative Election Night (2015)as Herself, Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *. That’s the problem.” She laughs, half in exhale. “No one can have it all,” she says of her success, eyebrow raised. “Well, I’m very conscious that feminism can’t become a white-privilege thing and I think there is a danger of that, and while we’re banging on about equal pay, what about the two women a week murdered by their partners or former partners?
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