Broadcaster and Journalist Jon Snow presented Britain’s award-winning Channel 4 News for more than 30 years.
Jon joined ITN in 1976 and became Washington Correspondent in 1984. He then travelled the world to cover the news – from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the release of Nelson Mandela, to Barack Obama’s inauguration and the 2010 earthquake in Haiti.
His many awards include a BAFTA fellowship, the Richard Dimbleby BAFTA award for Best Factual Contribution to Television (2005), and Royal Television Society awards for Journalist of the Year (2005 & 2006) and Presenter of the Year (2009 & 2010 and 2012). He also collected the BAFTA award for Channel 4 News’ 2011 coverage of the Japanese Tsunami.
Jon delivered the prestigious MacTaggart Lecture at Edinburgh’s International Television Festival in 2017.
He has also presented a wide range of discussion programmes and a number of high-profile documentaries for Channel 4. He presented coverage of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Paralympics and hosted a nightly programme, Jon Snow’s Paralympic Show.
Jon presented Snow Explains, a docuseries examining the news headlines in greater depth. He presented a number of Dispatches programmes including Can You Trust Your Bank and the two-part Landlords from Hell. Other documentaries include Drugs Live, Genius of British Art – the Art of War, Jon Snow’s Tsunami, War on Terror Trial, Bloody Sunday Debate, Snow in Japan, How to Live to 100, What if Putin Goes Nuclear? and Jon Snow: A Witness to History. He also chaired the quiz show, Very Hard Questions, for More4.
Jon has appeared on a number of TV and radio shows, including Good Morning Britain, Lorraine, Have I Got News for You, and notably an annual appearance on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year.
Jon created and presented the podcast Snowcast, interviewing key figures in art, media, politics and pop culture including Joan Bakewell, Professor Hannah Fry and Sir Chris Bryant.
Jon’s second book, The State of Us, was published in March 2023. Part memoir, part social exploration, it has been described as ‘A fascinating call to arms full of insight’ (Independent) which ‘represents a break in a half-century of silence; and it is trenchant in surprising ways’ (Guardian).
