Katherine Dunn is a journalist based in London who specialises in covering the intersection between climate change, the energy transition, and business.

I’m the content editor for the Oxford Climate Journalism Network at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University, where I help run an international project that aims to increase the quality of climate reporting in newsrooms. I’m also writing a book on the history of GPS.

I’ve worked as a reporter and editor for more than a decade, across breaking news and features for newspapers, newswires and magazines, covering business and political news. As a freelancer, I have covered U.K. news for the Globe and Mail, helped with editorial projects at Forbes, run the Reuters Institute summer school, and written features for Fortune. I am also available for long term research projects, and I occasionally give presentations on climate reporting.

You can reach me at katmagdunn@gmail.com, on Twitter, or on LinkedIn.

Mini CV.

 

Since 2022, I’ve worked at the Reuters Institute on the Oxford Climate Journalism Network, as the content editor. We work with hundreds of journalists around the world. You can read more about the OCJN here. You can read more about my book here, or on the “book” page of this website.

From 2019 to early 2022, I was an editor at Fortune, where I covered climate change and the energy industry, and wrote long form features about ExxonMobil’s shareholder battle, Alberta’s attempt to transition its economy, the pandemic puppy boom, and disappearing GPS (it’s a thing.)

At Fortune, I interviewed CEOs from all sides of the energy industry. I also co-wrote a climate newsletter, and moderated live interviews and panels with CEOs and senior executives for Fortune conferences. 

Before Fortune, I covered oil markets at S&P Global Platts, and was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal, where I covered commodities markets, particularly coffee and cocoa.

As a grad student, I wrote a daily business briefing for the Canadian newsmagazine Maclean’s from London.

I trained as a journalist at Carleton University in Ottawa, the Danish School of Journalism and Media, Aarhus University, and City University, London. I got my start on (paid) summer reporting programs at the Toronto Star and the Canadian Press. (Young journalists need more of these!)

I grew up in the oil & gas town of Calgary, Alberta. The photos you see on this website are from the Crowsnest Pass region of southern Alberta, and were all taken by my Dad.  

I’m represented by Sophie Lambert at C&W in the U.K. and Eric Lupfer at Fletcher & Co in the U.S.

My publisher in the U.S. and Canada is Bloomsbury and my publisher in the UK and Commonwealth is Mudlark (HarperCollins.)