#040 FiLiA meets: Louise Tickle
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English - September 30, 2019 09:13 - 30 minutes - 16 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsNews Society & Culture Philosophy Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
An award-winning freelance journalist, Louise specialises in education and social affairs. She has written extensively on domestic abuse, the effects of poverty on children’s education and child protection.
She has a particular interest in family courts and the care system, and is a member of The Transparency Project which aims to promote greater understanding of family law.
In 2017, Louise was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain's Social Evils for her work on the BBC One film Behind Closed Doors and her Guardian reporting on domestic abuse. In 2016 she was also shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism, and was joint winner of the Bar Council’s Legal Reporting Award. She has won a number of CIPR Awards for outstanding education journalism, and has twice been winner of the Rosemary Goodchild Award for Sexual Health Journalism run by Brook and the Family Planning Association.
She speaks with FiLiA’s Sally Jackson for this podcast.