Cathy Newman
The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan
The Midpoint
4.3 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
My guest this week is one of Britain's most respected and fearless journalists.
Cathy Newman spent twenty years at Channel 4 News, interviewed eight Prime Ministers, and broke some of the biggest stories of the last decade — including the investigation that led to the Archbishop of Canterbury resigning for the first time in history. She's just been named Journalist of the Year and Interviewer of the Year, and she's now embarking on an exciting new chapter at Sky News fronting her own show.
But away from the headlines and the political interviews, who is Cathy Newman? What drives her, what has she sacrificed, and what does it feel like to be at this particular midpoint — leaving somewhere you've called home for two decades and stepping into something completely new? This is a really honest and fascinating conversation and I think you're going to enjoy it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the midpoint. |
| 0:06.4 | My guest today is a serious news broadcaster, |
| 0:08.9 | but I met her for the first time on Have I Got News for You last year, |
| 0:12.3 | so I know she's also got a very healthy funny bone too. |
| 0:15.9 | A teenage Cathy Newman was on her way to becoming a violinist or a lawyer |
| 0:19.7 | until she was inspired by the |
| 0:21.7 | incredible broadcaster Kate Adie, synonymous with war zones and disaster reporting in the |
| 0:26.7 | 80s and 90s. And then Kathy decided she too wanted to become a journalist. She graduated from |
| 0:31.9 | Oxford University and worked her way up through newspapers at first, The Guardian, the Independent and |
| 0:36.5 | then the FT, and at just 23 years old, she was a political correspondent. She began her TV career in |
| 0:42.3 | 2000, and in 2006 joined Channel 4, where she has been for the last two decades, at the heart |
| 0:47.6 | of many important campaigns, showing her skills as an investigative journalist time and time |
| 0:52.2 | again on stories about political impropriety, |
| 0:55.3 | sexism in the corridors of power and paedophilia, to name a few. |
| 0:59.6 | She shone a light on so many important topics and has carried on writing as well. |
| 1:04.2 | Her book, A Bloody Brilliant. Women was highly acclaimed and is well worth a read. |
| 1:08.3 | In January, it was announced she's leaving Channel 4 and heading to Sky |
| 1:11.3 | to be the host of their 7 o'clock daily politics show, |
| 1:14.6 | taking on new podcasts and leading more special investigations for them. |
| 1:18.4 | And I'm really excited about chatting to Cathy. |
| 1:20.6 | There are so many things I want to talk about, |
| 1:22.5 | but particularly taking on a huge challenge like this |
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