Matt Frei
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Frei in 2015
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| Born |
Matthias Frei 26 November 1963 Essen, West Germany |
| Other names | Matt Frei |
| Education |
Westminster School St Peter's College, Oxford |
| Occupation | Journalist, newsreader, news anchor, author |
| Notable credit(s) | ITN, BBC News |
| Children | 4 |
Matthias "Matt" Frei (born 26 November 1963) is a German-born British television news journalist and writer, formerly the Washington, DC correspondent for Channel 4 News. He is now the channel's Europe Editor and an occasional presenter of the evening news.
Frei was born in 1963 in Essen, West Germany. His parents were refugees who left Silesia before it became part of Poland, and settled in Germany. In 1973, Frei and his family left Germany and moved to the United Kingdom, where his father became a London correspondent for German radio.
He was educated at Westminster School, then read History and Spanish at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, before graduating in 1986. Frei lives in London with his wife, Penny, and their four children.
Frei joined the BBC shortly after graduation. After a year in the German section of the World Service, 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 Southern Europe correspondent, based in Rome, and covered events in Bosnia, Kosovo, North Africa and various Mafia-related stories.
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