NATALIE POWELL
REPORTER AND VIDEO JOURNALIST, FEATURE STORY NEWS BROADCAST, 2009 Did you always know you wanted to be journalist? When I was younger I used to say I either wanted to be on the television or be a vampire slayer. Sadly there isn’t much call for vampire slaying these days.
What has been biggest change in journalism since you began your career? The mobile and digital explosion; I’m now live broadcasting from my iPhone.
Where do you think you’ll be in 5 years? For the first time in a long time I honestly cannot predict where I will be in 5 years. The landscape is constantly changing and evolving and I’m keen to evolve with it. This is a very unique time for journalists, where the integrity of our profession is being questioned from some of the highest parts of society. We find ourselves under attack and under threat from the emergence of fake news. It means that we have to strive to work with the utmost integrity. Challenge accepted.
What is one thing you learnt at City that you still use in your career today? Always write to pictures. That was the key message during a workshop with ITV’s Penny Marshall and has been absolutely invaluable advice ever since. I’m currently in Johannesburg on secondment to eNCA - South Africa’s commercial broadcaster where I’m training some of the reporters here, this is one of the main lessons I’m passing on.
What is the best career advice you’ve received? You need to have the skin of a rhino.
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2010 International Adwan Adwan Sports reporter, Abu Dhabi Sports; commentator,
talkSPORT; freelance sport presenter/producer Nefeli Agkyridou Freelance assistant producer, Reuters Insider; associate producer, CNBC; director of online media, Star Channel - Nea Tileorasi Kanika Ahuja Reporter, Zee News limited; manager, Angry Birds Yass Ajang Journalist, Le Monde en Marche; weekend manager; head of editorial services, International, Kantar Media Lamide Akintobi sub-editor, Nigerian Entertainment Today; producer/presenter, EbonyLife TV; sub-editor; editor, Diaspora Quarterly Magazine Arzu Aliyeva Unknown Arash Anghaei PhD student, innovation studies, University of East London; visiting lecturer in Psychosocial Studies, University of East London Kathrine Anker Editor, Lux Review Australia & New Zealand; editor, Cedar Communications; associate editor, Bonnier Publications A/S Chiara Albanese Reporter, FX Week; reporter, financial reporter, Wall Street Journal; reporter, Bloomberg Arzu Aliyeva Unknown Morade Azzouz TV producer &
cameraman, Thomson Reuters; camera operator & video editor, Al Jazeera; camera operator and video editor, BBC Stefanie Bainum News reporter, ABC News 4; Co-host/reporter Central Valley Today, KSEE24 Jelizaveta Belozerova Unknown Priyanka Boghani Freelance, CNN; senior reporter, Asian Private Banker Paola Bonfanti Special content director, 4IT group; wide and industrial printing content manager, Stratego Group Anna Brunetti Structured finance and FIG reporter, Reuters; chief reporter, P2P Finance News; senior editor, Investing.com Sakshi Budhraja Unknown Anelise Chagas Unknown Indu Chandrasekhar SEO executive, Telegraph Media Group; audience development manager, Wall Street Journal; Head of audience development, Marketwatch; director of audience development, WIRED Jessica Chesko Intern, Travel, The Sunday Times; reservation sales agent, Apple Vacations; sales associate, Massage Envy Heather Christie Investment communications analyst, BlackRock; Vice President, BlackRock; Nonexecutive director, Herstmonceux Castle Enterprises Limited; director london discretionary sales, Blackrock Ayesha Chundrigar Freelance, Asian Express, MenuOne; social media researcher, Cision Sergio Colombo Art director, 30G; freelance, Il Fatto Quotidiano (Rome); deputy editor, Lettera43; freelance, Eastwest; freelance, Panorama (Milan) Jaime Concha Associate editor, European Gas, Platts; associate editor, International Coal, Platts; senior European natural gas reporter, Energy Intelligence. Kelly Cregg Unknown Milenna Da Unknown Allya Davidson Associate producer, The Fifth Estate, CBC Television; producer, Vice Canada; investigative producer/director, CTV W5. Flora Desponts field producer, Al Jazeera Rijuta Dey Editorial assistant, associate editor, IntraFish Media; freelance, The Hindu; staff writer, Einstein Medical Athina Dimitrakopoulou Online journalist, Bankingnews.gr; news writer, content editor, Newsbeast. gr, Prime Media; interview editor, Bankingnews.gr Hau Dinh Cameraman, Current TV; producer, editor, scriptwriter, Associated Press Television; freelance producer, freelance cameraman, freelance fixer, Bloomberg, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CNN Nidhi Dugar-Kundalia (née Dugar) Sub-editor, Kindle Magazine (Kolkata, India); assistant editor, Kindle magazine; freelance writer, The Hindu Jorge Estevao Content editor, BetClic; web producer, Queen Mary University of London; freelance photographer, Getty Images, iStock, Alamy Niklas Fagerström Reporter, Finnish Broadcasting Company; national broadcast news reporter, YLE Lorena Fernandez Abdo Unknown Elisabeth Fischer Online feature
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writer, Progressive Digital Media Group; online reporter; editor, IntraFish Media Daniele Fisichella UK correspondent, Radio Popolare Milano; freelance producer, talkSPORT; reporter, MundoFutbol. com; press officer, Beat. Maria Furtado Unknown Federico Gatti Presenter, Massimo Ascolto Radio (London); Middle East correspondent, conflict reporter, London TV correspondent, Mediaset Maral Gholampour Creative producer, Marjan Television Network; member of directing panel, Ivaz Company, founder and director, Media Consultants Bureau Limited; correspondent, World Is One News Hanna Hauck Trainee, DAPD News Agency; volunteer, Educational Video Center; web development Immersive, General Assembly Natalie Halliday (née Higashi) Digital editor, Sedai Legacy Project (Toronto); freelance (CBC, Toronto); founder, managing editor, Moringa Media (Toronto); outreach officer, INTERPOL Meredith Humphrey Staff writer, Audience Media; journalist, IQ Media; community moderator, community manager, Spotify Anthony Johnston Copy editor, proofreader, editor-in-chief, Metro World News; director of hub operations, Culture Trip Hitani Kaur Lifestyle writer, India Today Group; Travel writer, Times of India; deputy editor, Eat Treat; writer, happytrips.com Dominic Kavakeb Freelance, Al Jazeera; political campaigns coordinator, Bahrain Justice & Development Movement; communications manager, Transparency international UK Atiya Khan News anchor, senior reporter, TimesNow Nimra Khan Unknown Soo Kim Travel editor, The Daily Telegraph; commissioning travel editor, The Telegraph Alexey Kovalev International coordinator, assistant editor, Time Out Moscow; freelance writer, The Guardian Katharina Kruppa Communications manager, Evonik Industries AG; luxury travel blogger, blog. reiseworldtv.de Quentin Leboucher Video journalist, Agence France Presse; Middle East and North Africa video deputy coordinator, AFPTV Lillian Leclair Writer, photographer, Oyster.com; correspondent, Jetsetter. com; concierge, The William Vale Hotel Johannes Ledel Karreskog; Reporter, Wall Street Journal; business reporter, Sverigas Radio; reporter, Dagens Nyheter; reporter, Svenska Dagbladet Geraldine Lennon Unknown Andre Lewis Productions; freelance photographer, News 12 Networks; multimedia news production fellow, Democracy Now!; video production coordinator, ASPCA Meng Liao Vice president, global markets group, Bank of America Alice Lin Editorial intern, Chronicle Books; copy, content writer, Party City; copywriter, Tiny Prints; editor, Fanmei Education; senior copywriter, Ebates Heng Lu Ethnography researcher,