Join us for 45 Minutes with Symeon Brown, Correspondent Channel 4 News.

About Symeon

Symeon has covered the biggest contemporary events in Black Britain. In 2020 he won the Criminal Justice Alliance Award for Outstanding Journalism reporting on racial inequality and his coverage of the Black Lives Matter Movement in Britain, Europe and Latin America have been watched over 1M+ online.

Symeon’s reporting has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Ills and a British Journalism Award for Economics reporting. He has also won the Medical Journalists Association Award for broadcasting and was identified by MHP as one of 30 under 30 to watch in 2018. He has also been One to Watch at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

Symeon was a senior researcher on the collaborative London School of Economics and The Guardian investigation into the 2011 England Riots and worked in the Guardian’s investigative films unit working on exposés into slavery in the British food supply chain, security in British prisons, and the failures of the criminal justice system.

Symeon was a contributor to the anthology Safe published by Trapeze and prior to working in journalism Symeon worked as an archivist at the Black Cultural Archives, Britain’s leading Black heritage organisation. Symeon studied Economics and Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies and achieved an MA in Broadcast Journalism from City University in 2014.