Paris, France
$400 - $600 / Day
Catherine Field is an award winning journalist whose expertise covers radio, television and print media. Catherine has lived in France since 1999. Prior to that she was based in Hong Kong, where she was China Correspondent for The Observer newspaper. From 1986 until 1993 she was the Berlin correspondent for The Observer. Catherine was awarded a silver medal at the New York International Festival of Radio for her reporting of the lead up to and the eventual fall of the Berlin Wall; she was runner-up in the New Zealand Canon Media Awards 2015 in the category 'best innovation in storytelling' for coverage of the anniversary of ‘The Rainbow Warrior’ attack, published in June 2015; also runner-up in the New Zealand Radio Awards 2015 in 'best coverage of a news story' for 'The Paris Attacks,' 13 November 2105. She began her career with the BBC in London; firstly with BBC World Service news and then BBC-2 TV current affairs 'Newsnight' programme. She covered the handover of Hong Kong, fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union. She has travelled on numerous occasions to North Korea, Burma, Tibet and Albania. She is a frequent contributor to French, Canadian and American television.
Produced for The New York Times
Catherine Field, a journalist based in Paris, writes that due to the strange constitution and cosseted style, France encourages a presidency where monarchical ideas take root like tropical plants in a hothouse. Time for a reminder of humility that governors and governed would do well to remember today, and not just on polling day?
Produced for France 24
Foreign correspondent Catherine Field joins panel of Paris-based journalists reviewing the week’s international news: the stories that made the headlines and also those you may have missed.
Produced for Seven Network Australia
I worked as producer / fixer organising access / permits / logistics with French state officials to enable Australian Television 7 Network to report on the day-in-day-out work clearing unexploded munitions in the Verdun area.
Produced for The New York Times
Catherine Field, a journalist based in Paris, writes that innumerable French Arabs are well integrated and accepted by the native French. Yet resentment or disaffection among Muslims not only breeds the radicals, it also provides a refuge for them. Sympathetic neighborhoods thwart police investigations, and jihadists returning home become the new heroes for teenagers.
Produced for The New York Times
Catherine Field, a Paris-based journalist, writes that a good handwritten letter is a creative act, and not just because it is a visual and tactile pleasure. It is a deliberate act of exposure, a form of vulnerability, because handwriting opens a window on the soul in a way that cyber communication can never do.
Produced for The New York Times
Catherine Field, a Paris-based journalist, writes that the sad little life of Louis XVII shows us, the French Revolution also inflicted a terrible price in blood and suffering. A revolution born in blood and cruelty is doomed to turn on its creators.
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