2024 is the biggest election year in history. Starting with Taiwan in January and running through to the US presidential election in November, more than two billion people in 65+ countries will take p...
Catherine Mackie
Catherine Mackie is the Training and Communications Editor for Thomson Foundation. She is responsible for designing training programmes for Thomson’s e-learning platform Journalism Now, as well as for the Telegram messaging app, enabling journalists in the field to access clear, concise and constructive guidance in a ‘bite-size’, accessible way. The latest on disinformation includes a look at the psychology behind its power and pre-bunking. Catherine has more than 30 years of experience as a senior journalist most of it with the BBC – both in front of and behind the camera. She reported on every local and national election in the UK from 1990-2016. In 2018, she was awarded a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship by the University of Michigan.
Events IJF 2024
After COP: how do we keep climate crisis coverage engaging and link local communities to a global audience?
The COP26 summit yielded some progress on emissions cuts but fell short on coal - the dirtiest fossil fuel. Global governments and corporate leaders are to double down on their commitments to curb gre...
