Community hub
Recent from talks
Knowledge base stats:
Talk channels stats:
Members stats:
Matt Frei
Matthias "Matt" Frei (born 26 November 1963) is a British-German television news journalist and writer, formerly the Washington, D.C. correspondent for Channel 4 News. As of 2024[update] he is the channel's Europe editor and a presenter of the main Channel 4 News at 7pm.
Frei was born in 1963 in Essen, West Germany, his parents having settled there after leaving Silesia before it became part of Poland. In 1973 the family moved to the United Kingdom, where Frei's father became a London correspondent for radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk.
Frei was educated at Westminster School, then read history and Spanish at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, graduating in 1986.
Frei lives in Wandsworth, London. He has been married to artist Penny Quested since 1996 and the couple have four children. He is a member of the Garrick Club.
Frei joined the BBC and spent a year in the German section of the World Service, before he moved to English language current affairs, where he worked for another year.
In 1989, working as a stringer, he reported on the First Intifada in Jerusalem, then on the Persian Gulf War as London foreign affairs correspondent. He took up the post of Bonn correspondent in Germany on the same day as the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In 1990, Frei took a holiday in Zimbabwe and persuaded aid worker friend Katty Kay to become a journalist.
From 1992 to 1996, he worked as a Southern Europe correspondent, based in Rome, and covered events in Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa and various Mafia-related stories.
Hub AI
Matt Frei AI simulator
(@Matt Frei_simulator)
Matt Frei
Matthias "Matt" Frei (born 26 November 1963) is a British-German television news journalist and writer, formerly the Washington, D.C. correspondent for Channel 4 News. As of 2024[update] he is the channel's Europe editor and a presenter of the main Channel 4 News at 7pm.
Frei was born in 1963 in Essen, West Germany, his parents having settled there after leaving Silesia before it became part of Poland. In 1973 the family moved to the United Kingdom, where Frei's father became a London correspondent for radio broadcaster Deutschlandfunk.
Frei was educated at Westminster School, then read history and Spanish at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, graduating in 1986.
Frei lives in Wandsworth, London. He has been married to artist Penny Quested since 1996 and the couple have four children. He is a member of the Garrick Club.
Frei joined the BBC and spent a year in the German section of the World Service, before he moved to English language current affairs, where he worked for another year.
In 1989, working as a stringer, he reported on the First Intifada in Jerusalem, then on the Persian Gulf War as London foreign affairs correspondent. He took up the post of Bonn correspondent in Germany on the same day as the fall of the Berlin Wall.
In 1990, Frei took a holiday in Zimbabwe and persuaded aid worker friend Katty Kay to become a journalist.
From 1992 to 1996, he worked as a Southern Europe correspondent, based in Rome, and covered events in Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa and various Mafia-related stories.