Symeon Brown

Symeon Brown is a correspondent on Channel 4 News and the author of Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition & Deceit in the New Influencer Economy. He has worked for the Guardian and the Black Cultural Archives. Symeon has reported on black cultures across Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean. His journalism has won a Medical Journalists’ Association Award and a Criminal Justice Alliance Outstanding Journalism Award and been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, a One World Media Award and a British Journalism Award; he was also nominated for a BAFTA as executive editor of Channel 4 News’ Black to Front special. Symeon was also a commissioning executive in current affairs and specialist factual between 2022-2023, where he was part of the team that launched the Channel 4 youth documentary strand Untold. He lives in London and supports Arsenal.