Role Reporter | Occupation Technology reporter Name Kate Russell | |
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Books Working the Cloud: The Ultimate Guide to Making the Internet Work for You and Your Business Nominations Shorty Award for Journalist Born 1968 (age 53) Similar Martin Lewis (financial journalist), Spencer Kelly, Lara Lewington Profiles | ||
Kate Russell (born c. 1968) is an English technology reporter.
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Early career
Russell is from Harpenden, Hertfordshire. She appeared on children's television in the show Fish and Chips on Nickelodeon in 1995, but moved on to present on technology a few years later, fronting a show called Chips With Everything on The Computer Channel (later renamed to .tv).
Russell has previously featured regularly on CNBC Europe as both a reporter and producer. She has also appeared on GMTV and The Pod Delusion.
Current activities
Russell is a freelance reporter on the Webscape segment of the BBC technology show Click, which is broadcast in the UK on BBC News and internationally on BBC World News.
She writes columns in Webuser and National Geographic Traveller magazines. She also writes a column for the Original Volunteers website. Her first published book Working the Cloud is a collection of tips and resources to help businesses better use the Internet. Russell's novel Elite: Mostly Harmless was the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign which raised over 400% of its funding goal. It is a story set in the Universe of the Elite computer games.
In the 2015 UK Blog Awards she won the individual digital and technology category.
She enjoys kick-boxing and creative writing.