The Mid•Point with Gabby Logan
Apr 28, 2026 · 45 min · 23 segments
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…
Cathy NewmanGuest
Gabby LoganHost
My guest today is a serious news broadcaster, but I met her for the first time on Have I Got News for You last year, so I know she's also got a very healthy, funny bone too.
A teenage Cathy Newman was on her way to becoming a violinist or a lawyer until she was inspired by the incredible broadcaster Kate Adie, synonymous with war zones and disaster reporting in the '80s and '90s.
She graduated from Oxford University and worked her way up through newspapers at first, The Guardian, The Independent, and then the FT, and at just 23 years old, she was a political correspondent.
She began her TV career in 2000, and in 2006 joined Channel 4, where she's been for the last two decades at the heart of many important campaigns, showing her skills as an investigative journalist time and time again on stories about political impropriety, sexism in the corridors of power, and pedophilia, to name a few.
She shone a light on so many important topics and has carried on writing as well.
In January, it was announced she's leaving Channel 4 and heading to Sky to be the host of their 7:00 daily politics show, taking on new podcasts and leading more special investigations for them.
There are so many things I want to talk about, but particularly taking on a huge challenge like this and a big career change in the period of life that only a couple of decades ago we'd got used to seeing women disappear completely from our screens.
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My guest today is a serious news broadcaster, but I met her for the first time on Have I Got News for You last year, so I know she's also got a very healthy, funny bone too.
A teenage Cathy Newman was on her way to becoming a violinist or a lawyer until she was inspired by the incredible broadcaster Kate Adie, synonymous with war zones and disaster reporting in the '80s and '90s.
She graduated from Oxford University and worked her way up through newspapers at first, The Guardian, The Independent, and then the FT, and at just 23 years old, she was a political correspondent.
She began her TV career in 2000, and in 2006 joined Channel 4, where she's been for the last two decades at the heart of many important campaigns, showing her skills as an investigative journalist time and time again on stories about political impropriety, sexism in the corridors of power, and pedophilia, to name a few.
She shone a light on so many important topics and has carried on writing as well.
In January, it was announced she's leaving Channel 4 and heading to Sky to be the host of their 7:00 daily politics show, taking on new podcasts and leading more special investigations for them.
There are so many things I want to talk about, but particularly taking on a huge challenge like this and a big career change in the period of life that only a couple of decades ago we'd got used to seeing women disappear completely from our screens.
