Editing Channel 4 (section)

=== Factual and current affairs ===
Channel 4 has a strong reputation for history programmes and documentaries. Its news service ''[[Channel 4 News]]'' is supplied by [[ITN]], whilst its long-standing investigative documentary series, ''[[Dispatches (TV programme)|Dispatches]]'', gains attention from other media outlets. Its live broadcast of the first public [[autopsy]] in the UK for 170 years, carried out by [[Gunther von Hagens]] in 2002 and the 2003 one-off stunt ''[[Derren Brown]] Plays Russian Roulette Live'' proved controversial.

A season of television programmes about [[masturbation]], called ''[[Wank Week]]'', was to be broadcast in the United Kingdom by Channel 4 in March 2007. The series came under public attack from senior television figures, and was pulled amid claims of declining editorial standards and concern for the channel's [[public service broadcasting]] credentials.<ref>{{cite news|last=Deans|first=Jason|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/feb/02/broadcasting.channel4 |title=Channel 4 postpones 'wank week' programming |work=The Guardian |access-date=11 December 2016 |archive-date=18 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618155005/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2007/feb/02/broadcasting.channel4 |url-status=live }}</ref>