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Kate Russell (reporter)
British reporter (born 1968)
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Biography
Russell was born on 22 May 1968, in Harpenden.[1] She made her first TV appearance with her family in a pilot episode of the game show, Johnny Ball Games, presented by Johnny Ball.[3][4] She appeared on children's television in the show Fish and Chips on Nickelodeon in 1995,[5] 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).[5]
Russell has previously featured regularly on CNBC Europe as both a reporter and producer.[5] She has also appeared on GMTV and The Pod Delusion.
Russell was 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.[6]
She writes a column called Tech Traveller[7] in National Geographic Traveler magazine.[8] She has previously written columns for Web User,[8] and the Original Volunteers website.
Russell's first published book Working the Cloud (2013) is a collection of tips and resources to help businesses better use the Internet.[9]
She self-published her first short story, Taken (Scary Shorts Book 1), as a trial of Kindle Direct Publishing on 5 August 2011.[10]
Russell's second book and first novel Elite: Mostly Harmless (2014),[11] a story set in the Universe of the Elite computer games,[12] was the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign which raised over 400% of its funding goal.[12]
A third book and second novel A Bookkeeper's Guide to Practical Sorcery,[13] a children's fantasy, was published in 2016. An audiobook version read by Charles Collingwood was the subject of another successful Kickstarter campaign.[14]
Awards
In the 2015 UK Blog Awards, she won the individual digital and technology category.[15][16]
In 2016, she was voted the 13th most influential woman in UK IT by Computer Weekly.[17]
Bibliography
- Taken (Scary Shorts Book 1) (2011)[10]
- Working the Cloud: The Ultimate Guide to Making the Internet Work For You and Your Business (2013)
- Elite: Mostly Harmless (2014)
- A Bookkeeper's Guide to Practical Sorcery (2016)