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.