MEET KAREN
Obsessed with non-scripted TV and documentary and finding potential stories.
Always seeking new ways to shine a light on voices that have been unheard.
Eat, breathe and sleep stories.
I am a Producer/Director and NCTJ trained journalist with 15+ years in broadcast television and previous experience working in the music industry for Ministry of Sound and various magazine publications. My background includes live daytime TV, breakfast news, leading on investigations and legal frameworks, producing the camera shy right through to royalty.
My career highlights include:
Gaining access to mother who admitted to allowing FGM on her daughter on the UK for the BBC. Filmed anonymously as part of the BBC Stories documentary ‘FGM for Why some British girls do it’.
Producing, directing Fleur East, Craig Charles, Kriss Akabusi and Margie Aderin-Pocock for ITV celebrating their Black history icons for in Black history for Black History month.
Interviewing formula legend Lewis Hamilton about key milestone in his life in Italy and Malaysia for Sky idents and F1
Live gallery producing breakfast news, leading a team of producers and editors to deliver VTs, live studio chat and rolling news coverage
Random things about me...
I am obsessed with music and have an encyclopaedic knowledge of Jungle, Garage, 90’s - 00’s Hip Hop, old stool reggae and 80’s soul.
My favourite documentary (and first I ever watched at 10 years old) is Fourteen Days In May about the final days on death row of a black man facing execution in 1980’s Mississippi
I worked on a documentary about the Bermuda triangle and made it back home from the vortex in one piece
I cook a mean Mac cheese and Bbq jerk chicken
I am a socio-political history geek in particular post Thatcher Britain in the arts and film
I’ve spent many years researching my family and DNA history across Jamaica, Cuba and the UK
