{{Short description|British journalist and broadcaster}} {{Use British English|date=November 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2025}}
'''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.<ref name=":0">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g_cuqS7erc |title=In Conversation with Jackie Long {{!}} Empoword Journalism Workshop |date=2021-01-18 |last=Empoword Journalism |access-date=2025-08-22 |via=YouTube}}</ref>
== Career == Long's career in the media began in local newspapers, where she worked for approximately four or five years.<ref name=":0" />
Prior to working at ''Channel 4 News''<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gordon-Farleigh |first=Neve |date=2021-02-01 |title=In Conversation with Jackie Long - Monday 18th January 2021 |url=https://www.empowordjournalism.com/all-articles/in-conversation-with-jackie-long-monday-18th-january-2021/ |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=Empoword Journalism |language=en-GB}}</ref> (which she joined in 2011),<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gazette |first=Press |date=2011-05-20 |title=Channel 4 news poaches Frei and Long from BBC |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/channel-4-news-poaches-frei-and-long-from-bbc/ |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=Press Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref> Long worked for the BBC for nearly twenty years;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pellegrino |first=Silvia |date=2023-04-01 |title=Who are the Channel 4 News presenters? |url=https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/broadcast/channel-4-news-presenters/ |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=Press Gazette |language=en-US}}</ref> her career in broadcasting began at BBC Radio Bedfordshire.<ref>{{Cite news |title=BBC Local Live: Beds, Herts & Bucks |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-33181947 |access-date=2025-08-22 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2005-05-26 |title=Trusting phonics |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4584491.stm |access-date=2025-08-22 |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2009-10-22 |title=Blurton's white working class struggle |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8320425.stm |access-date=2025-08-22 |language=en-GB}}</ref> Long also presented a number of documentaries for the BBC.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search - BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?order=first&q=%22jackie+long%22 |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk}}{{dead link|date=September 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Long's time at the BBC also included working for ''The World at One''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Cambridge Friends of SOS Children raise over £20,000 for families in Syria {{!}} Cambridge Network |url=https://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/cambridge-friends-sos-children-raise-over-ps20000-families-syria |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk}}</ref>
Long began presenting ''Channel 4 News'' in late 2013 or early 2014<ref>{{Cite news |last=Robinson |first=Peter |date=2014-04-04 |title=A day in the life of Channel 4 News |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2014/apr/04/channel-4-news-day-in-the-life |access-date=2025-08-22 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> in addition to being the programme's Social Affairs Editor, and before this was exclusively the Social Affairs Editor of the programme.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jackie Long |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2983047/ |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ferrer |first=Richard |date=2015-02-24 |title=Channel 4 stands by 'challenging' interview with Jewish journalist |url=https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/channel-4-stands-challenging-interview-jewish-journalist/ |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=Jewish News |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2023, Long presented the first edition of ''Channel 4 News'' to be presented from its new Leeds studio.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-05-03 |title=Channel 4 launches permanent Leeds newsroom - Prolific North |url=https://www.prolificnorth.co.uk/news/channel-4-launches-permanent-leeds-newsroom/ |access-date=2025-08-22 |language=en-GB}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Rachel |first=Website Administrator |date=2012-07-27 |title=Two TV documentaries on the Work Capability Assessment coming up {{!}} 30 July 2012 |url=https://meassociation.org.uk/2012/07/two-tv-documentaries-on-the-work-capability-assessment-coming-up-30-july-2012/ |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=The ME Association |language=en-GB}}</ref> In 2016, Long and Lee Sorrell received Sue Lloyd-Roberts Media Award for a Channel 4 News report about Yarl's Wood detention centre''.''<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.facebook.com/ethicaljournalismnetwork/videos/channel-4-news-jackie-long-on-how-media-can-cover-migration-e/1550347221929524/ |title=How can broadcasters tell... |language=en |access-date=2025-08-22 |via=www.facebook.com}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Media Awards 2016 |url=https://www.amnesty.org.uk/media-awards-2016 |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=www.amnesty.org.uk |language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-10-26 |title=British Journalism Awards 2017 – shortlists revealed |url=https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/british-journalism-awards-2017-shortlists-revealed-2942 |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=InPublishing |language=en}}</ref>
== Personal life == As of 2015, Long was married to the journalist and broadcaster Matthew Amroliwala.<ref>{{Cite web |title=News Next 2015 |url=http://events.exchange4media.com/newsnext/2015/speakers.html |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=events.exchange4media.com}}</ref>
Long has five children.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC News - Global with Matthew Amroliwala - Matthew Amroliwala |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/4lWwD1RC9WdVG547GD2QNfc/matthew-amroliwala |access-date=2025-08-22 |website=BBC |language=en-GB}}</ref>
== References == {{Reflist}}
Category:21st-century British journalists Category:British investigative journalists Category:British radio presenters Category:BBC radio presenters Category:Channel 4 people Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people)