Jackie Long


Jackie Long is a British journalist and broadcaster. She is a presenter and Social Affairs Editor at Channel 4 News.

Background

Long grew up in Bedfordshire. She studied English at university and attended a journalism college in Darlington.

Career

Long's career in the media began in local newspapers, where she worked for approximately four or five years.
Prior to working at Channel 4 News, Long worked for the BBC for nearly twenty years; her career in broadcasting began at BBC Radio Bedfordshire. 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. Long also presented a number of documentaries for the BBC. Long's time at the BBC also included working for The World at One.
Long began presenting Channel 4 News in late 2013 or early 2014 in addition to being the programme's Social Affairs Editor, and before this was exclusively the Social Affairs Editor of the programme. 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. In 2023, Long presented the first edition of Channel 4 News to be presented from its new Leeds studio.
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. In 2016, Long and Lee Sorrell received Sue Lloyd-Roberts Media Award for a Channel 4 News report about Yarl's Wood detention centre. 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. 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.

Personal life

As of 2015, Long was married to the journalist and broadcaster Matthew Amroliwala.
Long has five children.