CV

Contact me:

katrina.j.bishop@gmail.com

Employment:

Sky News – Business producer. March 2010 – present

Dow Jones Newswires – Reporter, copy editor. June 2009 – March 2010

Education:

City University PGDip: Newspaper Journalism – Distinction

University College London: BA Hons Philosophy – 1st Class

Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School: Four As at A Level and 10 A*s at GCSE

Journalism experience:

FT Internship, UK News Desk. June 09

Sky News, Business Desk. April – June 09

Evening Standard. April 09

Sunday Times Magazine. January 09

thelondonpaper. January 09

Hampstead and Highgate Express. December 08

City AM, financial and business newspaper. September 08

London Student newspaper, Features Editor. September 06 – May 08

Accrington Observer. July – August 07

Rossendale Free Press. August 07

Rochdale Observer. July 07

Lancashire Telegraph. July 07

London Studios Runner. July 07

Sunday Mirror, shadowing Political Editor. June 07

BBC World Service, World Have Your Say.  March 07

Political Experience:

Rossendale Borough Council, Planning Assistant. June – July 08

Parliamentary Intern, House of Commons. May – June 08

Rossendale Borough Council, acting Land Charges Manager. July – October 07

Parliamentary Intern, House of Commons. May – June 07

Also…

I spent the summer of 2008 travelling across Europe and wrote a blog about the experience which was critically acclaimed by the three people that read it: http://www.katandcharlotte.blogspot.com

And I was nominated for, and won a Laurel Award from the University of London Union for my work on London Student newspaper.