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”’Jackie Long”’ is a British journalist and broadcaster. She is a presenter and Social Affairs Editor at ”[[Channel 4 News]]”. |
”’Jackie Long”’ is a British journalist and broadcaster. She is a presenter and Social Affairs Editor at ”[[Channel 4 News]]”. |
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British journalist and broadcaster
Jackie Long is a British journalist and broadcaster. She is a presenter and Social Affairs Editor at Channel 4 News.
Long grew up in Bedfordshire. She studied English at university and attended a journalism college in Darlington.[1]
Long’s career in the media began in local newspapers, where she worked for approximately four or five years.[1]
Prior to working at Channel 4 News[2] (which she joined in 2011),[3] Long worked for the BBC for nearly twenty years;[4] her career in broadcasting began at BBC Radio Bedfordshire.[5] In the 1990s, she occasionally presented PM on BBC Radio 4 and the Midday News on BBC Radio 5 Live; in the early 2000s, she occasionally presented PM. Long was a correspondent for the BBC’s Newsnight.[6][7] Long also presented a number of documentaries for the BBC.[8] Long’s time at the BBC also included working for The World at One.[9]
Long began presenting Channel 4 News in late 2013 or early 2014[10] in addition to being the programme’s Social Affairs Editor, and before this was exclusively the Social Affairs Editor of the programme.[11] In 2015, Long was defended by the editor of Channel 4 News Ben de Pear after eight people complained to OFCOM about her asking during an interview of a Jewish journalist, who did not work for Channel 4 News and who filmed himself being harassed for being Jewish in the street, if he provoked people who harassed him by wearing a kippah.[12] In 2023, Long presented the first edition of Channel 4 News to be presented from its new Leeds studio.[13]
Long has presented a large number of documentaries for Channel 4 and has received considerable recognition for her work within the documentary format of broadcasting. In 2012, Long presented a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary about the government’s Work Capability Assessment.[14] In 2016, Long and Lee Sorrell received Sue Lloyd-Roberts Media Award for a Channel 4 News report about Yarl’s Wood detention centre.[15] Long’s documentary Inside Yarl’s Wood: Britain’s most notorious detention centre won the TV News award at the 2016 Amnesty International Media Awards.[16] In 2017, a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary partly made by Long in which Bupa Care Homes were investigated undercover was shortlisted for Investigation of the Year at the British Journalism Awards.[17]
As of 2015, Long was married to the journalist and broadcaster Matthew Amroliwala.[18]
Long has five children.[19]
