International Reporting
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From the Asian tsunami to the Haitian earthquake to Britain's role in the Iraq war, Katherine has covered some of the world's top news stories for the largest news organisations.
She spent six years based in the UK parliament covering political and general news and foreign affairs for Thomson Reuters, travelling into war zones with prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, reporting on the London and Madrid bombings and covering the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Katherine reported from Sri Lanka in the wake of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and from Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.
Before moving to London, Katherine worked as a foreign correspondent for Thomson Reuters in Brazil, covering general news and politics, natural and man-made disasters, corporate news and macroeconomics. She also spent five years living and working in Mexico, reporting for local newspapers and then as a correspondent for Bloomberg, writing about business, finance and the economy, politics and general news.
Katherine has reported from Africa for Time and currently writes and edits for Thomson Reuters Foundation's women's rights and humanitarian news websites.
Katherine speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently and is proficient in French.
Below is a selection of international news stories, features and photographs.
Time Magazine
She spent six years based in the UK parliament covering political and general news and foreign affairs for Thomson Reuters, travelling into war zones with prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, reporting on the London and Madrid bombings and covering the aftermath of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Katherine reported from Sri Lanka in the wake of the December 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and from Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.
Before moving to London, Katherine worked as a foreign correspondent for Thomson Reuters in Brazil, covering general news and politics, natural and man-made disasters, corporate news and macroeconomics. She also spent five years living and working in Mexico, reporting for local newspapers and then as a correspondent for Bloomberg, writing about business, finance and the economy, politics and general news.
Katherine has reported from Africa for Time and currently writes and edits for Thomson Reuters Foundation's women's rights and humanitarian news websites.
Katherine speaks Spanish and Portuguese fluently and is proficient in French.
Below is a selection of international news stories, features and photographs.
Time Magazine
- With a target audience of Mozambique's poorest, the free weekly Jornal @Verdade runs stories on bread prices, HIV — and reviews of high-tech toys. Ambition, the paper's founder believes, is the key to lifting the country out of poverty. Click here to read the full story.
- Global survey of women's rights finds Canada the best place in the G20 to be a woman and India the worst. Click here for full coverage and infographics.
- Policies promoting women's rights and freedoms and good healthcare make Canada the best place for women in the G20, while infanticide, child marriage and violence make India the worst. Click here for the full story.
- Violence puts Mexico among worst G20 countries for women. Click here to read the full story.
- Rape blights the lives of Haiti's earthquake survivors as thousands cram into camps. Click here for the full story.
- Fifty of Haiti’s most desperate earthquake survivors, including the sick, the elderly and rape victims, may get temporary reprieve to live in the United States as part of a relief effort being driven by an American human rights lawyer. Click here for the full story.
- At a time when accountability and transparency are high on the agenda in the aid world, a global law firm produces a report into the workings of a female education charity that could serve as a model of good governance for the development sector. Click here for the full story.
- Pro bono support helps Brazilian charities navigate a legal minefield. Click here for the full story.
- Five years on from the Indian Ocean tsunami, the region has its own early warning system but experts say the new technology will not save lives unless local communities are more involved in planning how to respond. Click here for the full story.
- Torrential rains bring fresh hardship to tsunami survivors in eastern Sri Lanka, flooding refugee camps, forcing the evacuation of at least one and leaving others dotted with stagnant pools. Click here for the full story.
- Tony Blair bows out of office after 10 years and defends his decision to wage war on Iraq. Click here for the full story.
- Gordon Brown urges Afghanistan and Pakistan to cooperate more closely against terrorism at a time of increased political uncertainty and an upsurge in violence. Click here for the full story.
- Londoners flee as police shoot bomb suspect dead on the underground following the 2005 London bombings. Click here for the full story.
- Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel challenge world leaders to come away from the G20 summit with stricter financial agreements as they call for 'hard and fast results'. Click here for coverage of the 2009 G20 summit.
- Gordon Brown tells bankers they should stop behaving recklessly with other people's money and should instead uphold "family" values of honesty and fairness. Click here for the full story.
- The mayor of London Boris Johnson angrily rejects suggestions that he failed the capital on a day of huge snowfalls in February 2009, accusing MPs of "unnecessary political bias". Click here for the full story.