Journalism

I write real-life stories, lifestyle features and first-person pieces for magazines and newspapers. I have written for The Sunday Times, the Guardian, Red, Psychologies, Easy Living, The Daily Mail, and Good Housekeeping. The topics I cover include dating and relationships, singleness, infertility and IVF, childlessness, perfectionism, faith, wellbeing, travel, addictions and eating disorders. Here is a selection of my work:

The Sunday Times

• Maybe No Baby. One in five women in their mid-forties are childless. New guidelines improving access to IVF will help, but the real problem is ‘social infertility’.

The Guardian

• The rise of social infertility. IVF for women over 40 doesn't address the root of the problem. How can we help people make the most of their fertility?

Easy Living

• Egg freezing: money for nothing? Some experts say it's the future of fertility. Others say clinics are preying on the hopes of vulnerable women. Katherine Baldwin (childless, single and 42) sorts the facts form the science fiction. Published in July 2013 issue. Download the PDF by clicking on the following links: Page One, Two, Three, Four.

Red

• A family against the odds. After adopting her son from Russia, Sandrine Gallien, 40, decided to have one last try at IVF. Here, she tells Katherine Baldwin about the unconventional way she created her family. Published in December 2013 issue. Download the PDF here: Page 1 and Page 2.

• Is there an alternative solution to antidepressants for women with mild depression? Published in March 2013 issue. Download the PDF here.

Psychologies

• A lone adventure. What would inspire someone to take off on a journey of their own? First-person feature on a solo adventure to Mexico. Published in May 2013 issue. Download the PDF here.

• Perfectionist Hotspots. We often take great pride in our perfectionism but having extremely high standards can backfire. Discover where your pursuit of excellence is getting in the way of your goals and sabotaging your life. Published in the October 2012 issue. Download the PDF here.
• Are things better on the bright side? A new book suggests most of us are optimists at heart, even if we don't realise it. Is this really the case and does life run more smoothly for those with an upbeat outlook? Published in the January 2012 issue. Download the PDF here.
• Faith journeys. True faith is a wonderful thing but what happens when that sense of certainty is shaken, either by a personal challenge or when a religion becomes linked to scandal or extremism. Is doubt separable from belief? Published in the November 2011 issue. Download the PDF here.

The Daily Mail

• Baby goggles syndrome: the perils and pitfalls of dating to the rhythm of the biological clock. Click here to read the full piece online and hear how women and men are dealing with their baby angst. 
• As more and more women struggle with infertility, is baby envy the new social divide? Click here for the full article.

International Reporting

From the Asian tsunami to the Haitian earthquake to Britain's role in the Iraq war, I have covered some of the world's top news stories for the largest news organisations. I 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. I 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, I worked as a foreign correspondent for Thomson Reuters in Brazil, covering general news and politics, natural and man-made disasters, corporate news and macroeconomics. I 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.

I have reported from Africa for Time and have written for the Thomson Reuters Foundation's women's rights and humanitarian news websites. I speak Spanish and Portuguese fluently and am proficient in French.

Below is a selection of international news stories and features.

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.

Thomson Reuters Foundation

• 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.

The Guardian

• 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.