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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 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.