As a senior BBC journalist, Karen worked in Radio 4 News and Current Affairs as an output editor on The World at One, PM andThe World this Weekend. She was also a field producer in the Middle East, covering the Gulf Crisis and War in 1990/1 and producing news output from Moscow, Europe, Northern Ireland and the United States, with a stint as Washington bureau producer.
Karen works closely with the journalism industry councils: the Broadcast Journalism Training Council (BJTC) and the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ), particularly in the area of journalism ethics, as well as the BBC. She has been interviewed on radio and in print on various topics including careers in broadcast journalism and has spoken in the UK and overseas on trauma awareness, storytelling and journalism education.
Her latest book (co-edited with Stephen Jukes) New Journalisms: Rethinking Practice, Theory and Pedagogy (Routledge) encourages discussion about re-imagining journalism in the post – truth context.