Michael has been journalist for more than 40 years and was a founding member of Channel 4 News in 1982, and later served as the programme’s Washington Correspondent. He joined the BBC in 1990 and worked on Panorama before joining Newsnight in 1992. He was political editor of Newsnight from 2007-11 and then re-joined Channel 4 News as political correspondent from 2011 until 2019. He later presented his own show on Mail Plus, The Michael Crick report. Michael has also presented Dispatches programmes for Channel 4 including Boris v Dave: The Battle for Europe and Plebs, Lies and Videotape. He has presented on LBC Radio together with a number of programmes for BBC Radio 4 including How to Win a...
Michael has been journalist for more than 40 years and was a founding member of Channel 4 News in 1982, and later served as the programme’s Washington Correspondent. He joined the BBC in 1990 and worked on Panorama before joining Newsnight in 1992. He was political editor of Newsnight from 2007-11 and then re-joined Channel 4 News as political correspondent from 2011 until 2019. He later presented his own show on Mail Plus, The Michael Crick report.
Michael has also presented Dispatches programmes for Channel 4 including Boris v Dave: The Battle for Europe and Plebs, Lies and Videotape. He has presented on LBC Radio together with a number of programmes for BBC Radio 4 including How to Win a Tory Leadership Election and the ten-part series Tales from the Lobby.
He won Royal Television Society awards in 1989 and 2002 and has twice been awarded RTS Specialist Journalist of the Year, in 2013 and 2017. In 2018 he was awarded the prestigious Charles Wheeler Award.
Crick is the author of several books, including biographies of Nigel Farage, David Butler, Arthur Scargill, Jeffrey Archer and Alex Ferguson, and of Michael Howard and Michael Heseltine.
It has been said that the five most terrifying words in the political lexicon are: “Michael Crick is in reception”. It has also been said that “One of the crowning glories of the uncodified British constitution is called “Michael Crick”.”
Former special advisor to the Office of the Prime Minister, Theo Bertram, said of Michael – “If I was a Minister, I’d sooner face a million angry Tweeters & their online petitions, than one Michael Crick.”
