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NZ/French Paris-based journalist. Berlin & China correspondent The Observer London. Previously BBC News. Author: 'China' @catherinefield.bsky.social

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Catherine Field’s Biography

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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 Field travelled throughout East Germany in the years leading up to the fall of the Wall.

She covered the fall of the Berlin Wall, the revolutions across Eastern E…

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Catherine Field: France Correspondent on Europe-China rivalry at the Paris Motor Show

Catherine Field: France Correspondent on Europe-China rivalry at the Paris Motor Show

Listen to this episode from The Mike Hosking Breakfast on Spotify. Tensions are running high at the Paris Mot…

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Catherine Field: European correspondent on the restoration of Notre Dame

Catherine Field: European correspondent on the restoration of Notre Dame

It's been five years since a devastating fire gutted Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral - but the wait is almost ove…

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Catherine Field: New French Prime Minister To Focus On Saving Factory Jobs

Catherine Field: New French Prime Minister To Focus On Saving Factory Jobs

France's new prime minister said Saturday his government will focus on keeping French manufacturing jobs and …

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Catherine Field: France Correspondent on Europe-China rivalry at the Paris Motor Show

Catherine Field: France Correspondent on Europe-China rivalry at the Paris Motor Show

Tensions are running high at the Paris Motor Show. The industry is struggling with weak demand as European au…

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Gisèle Pelicot rape trial - 51 men including her ex-husband are sentenced t...

Gisèle Pelicot rape trial - 51 men including her ex-husband are sentenced t...

Tabitha Monahan is joined by Paris-based freelance journalist Catherine Field to discuss the verdict . They …

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The Indo Daily: From Telegram CEO's arrest in France, to X being blocked in Brazil - is freedom o...

The Indo Daily: From Telegram CEO's arrest in France, to X being blocked in Brazil - is freedom o...

The name Pavel Durov might not be a familiar to most people. However, you have probably heard of his company …

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Articles

Doubtful Result Will Endanger UK's Global Role

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By Catherine Field
| yaleglobal.yale.edu
Belying forecasts Prime Minister David Cameron won reelection and is set to form a new cabinet. During the campaign Cameron promised to stage a referendum on British membership in the EU. Catherine Field, writing for the New Zealand Herald, points out that such ballot measures divide the electorate.
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The sickness in France's heart

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By Catherine Field
| The New York Times Verified
CLICHY-SOUS-BOIS, France — Clichy-sous-Bois has the feel of an artificial town, parachuted at bureaucratic behest into the featureless fields northeast of Paris and left there to rot. In the 1960s, planners chose this spot for a "Grand Ensemble" of public housing to lodge workers who came from North and West Africa in droves to do the dirty, boring and dangerous jobs shunned by the native French.
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The Fading Art of Letter Writing

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By Catherine Field
| The New York Times Verified
PARIS — The envelope arrives with the address painstakingly handwritten and the stamp with the Queen’s head always evenly placed in the top right-hand corner. The postman stops his bike to slide the missive through the letterbox and the dog lets out two yaps. It’s time for me to make tea, and read. The letter comes from Joyce, my 75-year-old mother-in-law in England.
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New York International Festival of Radio

1990 - Radio Journalism

The Fall of the Berlin Wall : Outstanding coverage of a breaking news story.

New Zealand Canon Media Awards

2015 - Best Innovation in Storytelling

Coverage of the anniversary of ‘The Rainbow Warrior’ attack, published in June 2015.

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New Zealand Radio Awards

2016 - Best Coverage of a News Story

The Paris Attacks, 13 November 2105.

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