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Cathy Newman
Cathy Newman (born 14 July 1974) is a British journalist and TV presenter. She currently co-presents Channel 4 News with Jon Snow and Krishnan Guru-Murthy. She runs the programme's FactCheck blog.

Prior to becoming a presenter, Newman was the programme's Political Correspondent between January 2006 and September 2011. She joined Channel 4 News from the Financial Times where she was Chief Political Correspondent.

She blogs on women in politics for the Daily Telegraph's online women's section and writes a column for Economia magazine.

Career
Newman was Media Correspondent at the Financial Times between January 1998 and September 1999, having previously been Media Business Reporter at The Independent. Her first job after university was as a researcher at The Independent. She left to spend a year as a reporter on the trade magazine Media Week before returning to the paper in March 1997.

In 2000 Newman was awarded the prestigious Laurence Stern Fellowship and spent four months working at the Washington Post.

Between 2000 and 2006 Newman was an occasional presenter of GMTV's Sunday Programme.

Education
Newman was educated at Guildford High School, then won a music scholarship to Charterhouse where her father was head of Chemistry. She has a First in English from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University.

Personal life
Newman married the writer John O'Connell in 2001. They have two children and live in south London.

Trivia
In 1998, at the launch party for Sky Digital, Newman was mistaken for actress Cate Blanchett by the veteran film critic Barry Norman. Newman was standing with Rupert and Elisabeth Murdoch when Norman rushed up and told her that he had been telling everyone how great she was in Elizabeth. This was seen as embarrassing for Norman who had just been poached by Sky after spending 26 years at the BBC.

Newman is an accomplished violinist. She backed Krishnan Guru-Murthy in the Channel 4 News band at 2011's Newsroom's Got Talent, playing the guitar solo to Back In The USSR on her violin.