Staff Writer @ Katrin Bennhold is a staff writer for The New York Times in London. A native German who spent most of her career based in France, Ms. Bennhold’s reporting has ranged from covering terrorist attacks in Algiers to youth rioting in Paris’s ethnically mixed suburbs, teenagers addicted to Facebook and rogue trading at one of France’s biggest banks.
Since 2010, Ms. Bennhold has been a main contributor to the Female Factor series on the status of women in the early 21st century, writing a regular column on gender issues and exploring work-life models across Europe. She met Swedish hunters on father’s leave, looked beneath the veneer of equality in republican France and discovered layers of stubborn history in Germany’s struggle to give women more opportunities.
As French political correspondent from 2004 to 2009, Ms. Bennhold covered the final years of Jacques Chirac’s presidency and the rise of Nicolas Sarkozy, writing about efforts to reform the labor market and zooming in on issues of religious and ethnic identity among Muslim immigrants. From March 2004 to Present (11 years 10 months) London, United KingdomNieman Fellow @ From 2012 to 2013 (1 year) Reporter @ Prior to being hired by the New York Times group, Katrin was a senior economics writer for Bloomberg News in Paris. From July 2000 to March 2004 (3 years 9 months) Television presenter and producer @ Katrin worked as a television reporter for Bloomberg TV and N24, a German 24-hour news channel, in London before moving to Paris in July, 2000. From 1998 to July 2000 (2 years)
BSc and MSc, Economics @ The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) From 1994 to 1998 I.B. @ Armand Hammer United World College From 1991 to 1993 Katrin Bennhold is skilled in: Journalism, Breaking News, Business Journalism, Newspaper, News Writing, Storytelling, Online Journalism, Editing, Headline Writing, Editorial, Copy Editing, Media Relations, French, International Relations, Newspapers, Television, Facebook, New Media, Politics
Websites:
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/b/katrin_bennhold/index.html,
http://www.nytimes.com,
http://adubiousexperiment.wordpress.com/