Kate Russell (reporter)


Kate Russell is an English technology reporter, author, speaker, gamer & streamer.

Early career

Russell is from Harpenden, Hertfordshire. She made her first TV appearance with her family in a pilot episode of the game show, Johnny Ball Games, presented by Johnny Ball.She appeared on children's television in the show Fish and Chips on Nickelodeon in 1995, but moved on to present on technology a few years later, fronting a show called Chips With Everything on The Computer Channel.
Russell has previously featured regularly on CNBC Europe as both a reporter and producer. She has also appeared on GMTV and The Pod Delusion.

Current activities

Russell is a freelance reporter on the Webscape segment of the BBC technology show Click, which is broadcast in the UK on BBC News and internationally on BBC World News.
She writes a column called Tech Traveller in National Geographic Traveller magazine. She has previously written columns for Webuser, and the Original Volunteers website.
Russell's first published book Working the Cloud is a collection of tips and resources to help businesses better use the Internet.
She self-published her first short story, Taken , as a trial of Kindle Direct Publishing on 5 August 2011.
A second novel A Bookkeeper's Guide to Practical Sorcery, a children's fantasy, was published in 2016. An audiobook version read by Charles Collingwood was the subject of another successful Kickstarter campaign.
Russell's third novel Elite: Mostly Harmless, a story set in the Universe of the Elite computer games, was the result of a successful Kickstarter campaign which raised over 400% of its funding goal..

Awards

In the 2015 UK Blog Awards she won the individual digital and technology category.
In 2016 she was voted the 13th most influential woman in UK IT by Computer Weekly.