Catherine Mackie

Learning and Communications Support Manager

Catherine is responsible for designing training programmes for Thomson.

She has created many of the most popular e-learning courses on Thomson's Journalism Now platform including the ground breaking Rethinking Disinformation and AI in the newsroom: the ethical approach as well as a series on Environmental Journalism: Why local matters.

For Thomson's training programmes, Catherine draws on years of experience as a senior journalist with the BBC, both in front of and behind the camera as well as on radio and online.  She has interviewed thousands of people from Prime Ministers and CEOs to regular people who find themselves in the headlines. Her last five years at the BBC were spent as a digital video specialist and mobile filmmaker, devising and delivering a country-wide training programme for BBC staff.

Catherine is regularly invited to speak at international conferences and is a recipient of a Knight-Wallace Journalism Fellowship from the University of Michigan, where she developed ways to increase social diversity in news output and connect with new and underserved audiences.