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Catherine Jacob

Catherine Jacob is Sky News’ Environment Correspondent.  She previously worked at Five News as a correspondent and presenter and has won several journalistic awards. 

She was awarded the prestigious Golden Nymph for Best News Item at the Monte Carlo Film Festival 2007, for her exclusive report on the child shipbreakers of Bangladesh.  Catherine has also won a bronze medal at the New York Festival Awards 2006, the Women in Film and Television "New Talent" Award 2005 and has been a finalist in the Royal Television Society's Young Journalist of the Year Award. 

In her role as Environment Correspondent, Catherine has reported from most of the world’s continents: polar bear contamination in the Arctic Circle, drought in North East Brazil, global climate negotiations in Bali and Poland and climate change in Bangladesh.

In 2008, she spent three weeks in the Peruvian Amazon, with the Ashaninka tribe, reporting on how deforestation is affecting the country. In January 2009, she exposed the scandal of toxic e-waste being shipped from the UK to Nigeria, which made front page news.

Amongst her previous investigations, Catherine went to Africa’s Ivory Coast, to interview the parents of Victoria Climbie. It followed her exclusive report into the scandal of failing NHS child protection services in Britain. 

Other big stories at Five News included three months of daily coverage on the 21/7 terror trial and the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal. Catherine was also Five News' Royal Correspondent. 

Previously, Catherine was a general reporter for ITV News and also worked across ITN's other news productions, Channel Four News and Channel Five News as an ITN News Trainee. 

In 2003, Catherine got her first big scoop, when she exposed the story of Gulf war widow, Lianne Seymour. Lianne was asked to repay part of her dead husband's salary and move out of her home. It was then revealed the MOD had mislaid body parts belonging to her husband. 

The story made front page news and as a result, secured Lianne a face-to-face apology from the Defence Secretary. 

Catherine went to Durham University where she received a BA Hons degree in Spanish and French.  She spent a year abroad teaching English in Andalucia, Southern Spain.  After university she began her journalistic career in Newcastle as a reporter and then presenter on regional radio and TV. 

Catherine is married and lives in London.