KERRY ALEXANDRA

Kerry Alexandra is a freelance reporter based in London, United Kingdom.

 At six years of age my mother sat me down in front of the television and said... "Watch this, it's important; this is something people will talk about for the rest of your life." What she made me watch was the fall of Berlin wall; and she was right - what she didn’t realise was that she had just begun a life long obsession with the news… *In 2014 I went to Berlin for the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the wall and did my first proper news report.

I read English Literature at undergrad, before taking an MA in Broadcast Journalism at City University in October 2008. Whilst at City I won an ITN/BJTC Award for the Best Short TV News piece.

My first real news job was at Sky News as a Researcher in 2009, before joining The BBC in 2010 on the 5Live Breakfast team. I later worked on the BBC Elections Team. And then between The BBC's User Generated Content Hub and Social Media News Team for 3 years. As well as launching and reporting for a new project for BBC Trending.

In 2015 I went freelance and worked as a (regularly on air) producer across a number of teams at The BBC World Service. I also worked with ITN's online team writing articles and Children's news outlet First News as a shoot/edit producer. Writing, filming and edit producing packages aimed at a younger audience.

In 2017 I took up an offer of living and working in Istanbul... initially as a producer and later a reporter.

I’m now back in London, freelancing and looking for interesting projects.

Other things: of interest:

I was also lucky enough to be one the 2013 John Schofield Trust mentees -http://johnschofieldtrust.wordpress.com/

And one of the 2014 BBC Global Women in News mentees.

Social Profile:

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kerryalexandra/

Twitter - https://twitter.com/KerryAlexandra

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