Matt Chorley is a British journalist and broadcaster who hosts a live show on

Times Radio Times Radio is a British digital radio station owned by News UK. It is jointly operated by Wireless Group (which News UK acquired in 2016), ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times''. As of September 2022, the station broadcasts to a weekly audienc ...

. His early career was at the ''Taunton Times'' before covering politics for the ''Western Morning News'' and the Press Association. He was subsequently political editor at ''MailOnline'', and a political correspondent for the ''Independent on Sunday''. He has won awards for his political podcast and digital journalism.

Early and personal life

Chorley was born in 1982, He was brought up near

Taunton Taunton () is the county town of Somerset, England, with a 2011 population of 69,570. Its thousand-year history includes a 10th-century monastic foundation, Taunton Castle, which later became a priory. The Normans built a castle owned by t ...

on the

Somerset Levels The Somerset Levels are a coastal plain and wetland area of Somerset, England, running south from the Mendips to the Blackdown Hills. The Somerset Levels have an area of about and are bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to the south are ...

and attended Richard Huish College. He first worked at the now defunct '' Taunton Times''.

Career

Chorley covered politics at the ''

Western Morning News The ''Western Morning News'' is a daily regional newspaper founded in 1860, and covering the West Country including Devon, Cornwall, the Isles of Scilly and parts of Somerset and Dorset in the South West of England. Organisation The ''Western ...

'' and

Press Association PA Media (formerly the Press Association) is a multimedia news agency, and the national news agency of the United Kingdom and Ireland. It is part of PA Media Group Limited, a private company with 26 shareholders, most of whom are national and re ...

and was political editor at ''

MailOnline MailOnline (also known as ''dailymail.co.uk'') is the website of the ''Daily Mail'', a newspaper in the United Kingdom, and of its sister paper '' The Mail on Sunday''. MailOnline is a division of dmg media, which is owned by Daily Mail and Ge ...

''. He was a political correspondent at ''

The Independent on Sunday ''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was publish ...

''. He works for ''

The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' ...

'' as host of the Red Box podcast and presenter of the political mid-morning show on

. In 2019, Chorley toured his one-man comedy political show, ''This is Not Normal'', around the UK. He started work as a

presenter in June 2020. He initially filled the 10am to 1pm shift from the Monday to Thursday, but added the Friday shift in May 2021. On 30 September, 2022 Chorley appeared on the

BBC One BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's Flagship (broadcasting), flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News ...

satirical television show '' Have I Got News for You''.

Accolades

At the 2020 Society of Editors' Press Awards Red Box won the Best News Podcast Award. At the 2020 London Press Club, Chorley won Digital Journalist of the Year for his Red Box political email newsletter and podcast for ''The Times''. In February 2021 Chorley was nominated for ‘radio broadcaster of the year’ at the Broadcasting Press Guild awards. In September 2022 he was short-listed in the category "Broadcaster of the Year" at

The Press Awards The Press Awards, formerly the British Press Awards, is an annual ceremony that celebrates the best of British journalism. History Established in 1962 by ''The People'' and '' World's Press News'', the first award ceremony for the then-named ' ...

. In March 2023 Chorley was nominated in the best speech presenter at the

Audio and Radio Industry Awards The Audio and Radio Industry Awards (ARIAS, ARIAs, or UK ARIAs) are annual awards awarded for excellence in UK radio and audio presenting and production. Established in 2016 by the Radio Academy, they succeeded the Radio Academy Awards, the ...

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chorley, Matt Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Date of birth missing (living people) People from Taunton British male journalists 21st-century British journalists British newspaper journalists British political journalists Daily Mail journalists The Independent people The Times journalists