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About Me

Caitlin is a professional writer and editor based in San Francisco. She runs a freelance business, specializing in media, society and culture, travel and environmental issues.

Caitlin is an international journalist. Originally from Sydney, she lived in London for five years before her move to California. She has traveled all over the world for work, from Nicaragua to Senegal and Norway to Syria. Her work is published around the world, including in BusinessWeek in the US, The Guardian in the UK, the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong and The Australian in Australia. Read selected articles or view her resume.

Caitlin has extensive experience with blogging and social media. She runs a travel and food blog, Roaming Tales, and writes for green lifestyle blog EcoSalon. You can find her on Twitter at @niltiac.

Caitlin has previously lived and worked abroad, in Germany as a school exchange student and in Costa Rica and Guyana as a volunteer on community development projects with Youth Challenge International.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Charles Sturt University and a Master in International Studies from the University of Sydney.

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Work History

• Self
• Freelance journalist and blogger
• January 2006 to Present

• Freelance journalist specializing in social and environmental reportage and business and media. Published in BusinessWeek, The Guardian, The Australian and others. Based in London and now San Francisco.

• Media Week (UK)
• Acting news editor
• July 2004 to December 2005

• Managed a team of reporters to produce 16 pages of news, analysis and reviews for weekly publication on the UK media industry.

• The Australian
• Reporter
• August 2000 to April 2004

• Technology reporter and then general news and features reporter for national broadsheet newspaper in Australia.

• IDG Communications
• Section editor
• September 1999 to August 2000

• Section editor for weekly IT newspaper, Australian Reseller News.

• Village Suburban Newspapers
• Journalist
• November 1997 to December 1998

• Local newspaper journalist.

Education

• University of Sydney
• Master of International Studies, International Relations
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• Charles Sturt University
• Bachelor of Arts - Communication, Broadcast Journalism, Politics, Theatre
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