+44 7983264465

laura@lauragrb.com
@tiktok_journo @lauragrb
www.lauragrb.com

FIRST DRAFT / Training & Support Manager Jan 2020 - current

Creating and delivering multimedia training material , delivering
live courses

UNIVERSITY FOR PEACE / Lecturer Nov 2019 - current

Delivering module “Social Media for Social Innovation”

FREELANCE / Bloomberg Mexico & others June 2016 - current

Translate and explain UK politics for Mexican audiences

Mar 2018 - Oct 2020 PRESSPAD / Co-Founder

Social enterprise designed to increase diversity in the media.

Dec 2013 - Dec 2019 UNIVERSITY OF KENT

May 2017 - Dec 2019 Lecturer
Delivered broadcast/online journalism teaching (PGCHE)
Coordinated and manage intern program with KMTV
Designed and delivered TV Production module

Dec 2013 - April 2017 Graduate Teaching Assistant

Jun 2015 - Oct 2019 KMTV / Special Programmes Producer

Coordinated, produced and directed weekly politics magazine TV programme

Sep 2018 - Sep 2019 CENTRE FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM / Access to Tools Trainer
Delivered two-hour workshops on online investigation tools

Oct 2016 - Nov 2018 AMMPE World / Organiser

Main organiser for XXIII Congress of AMMPE with >400 international participants

Sep 2012- Oct 2017 ITN Channel 5 News / Assistant News Editor
Organised logistics, coverage and planning for national news network

Sep 2016 - Nov 2017 CUMBERLAND LODGE / Research Associate

Produced short doc film - “Darknes over Germany”

Jul 2012 - Mar 2013 FREELANCE / Broadcast Journalist

BBC R4 World Tonight, BBC Radio Kent, ITV Meridian

Apr 2012 - Jun 2012 FREELANCE / Digital content producer & social media editor
1908: Body and Soul, Small Media, Lupita UK Restaurants, Indigo Media

Aug 2009 - Sep 2012 1/60 STUDIO / Studio Manager, photographer & videographer
Photography, portaits, video, editing, proyect management, budgeting
EDUCATION
Sep 2015 - Jul 2018 PGCHE - University of Kent

Dec 2013 - incomplete PhD Journalism - University of Kent

Mainstream news coverage of social movements
50th Anniversary Scholarship

Sep 2011 - Jul 2012 MA Multimedia Journalism - University of Kent (Distinction)

International Scholarship for Postgraduate students

Aug 2006 - Dec 2010 B.A. in Journalism and Media Studies

Tec de Monterrey (Class Valedictorian)
Summer 2010 - Global Citizen Parthership program Virginia Tech
Fall 08-Spring 09 - University of Texas at Austin (Dean’s List)

Aug 2006 - Aug 2007 Technical Degree in Professional Photography

Ansel Adams Photography in Monterrey Mexico

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

Spanish (native), English 100%, French 50% Languages

Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Flash, Illustrator, Software

Lightroom, Audition, After Effects)
Wordpress, Drupal HTML
Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, Audition, ProTools, Headliner
Tableau, Flourish, 360 video, interactive video, maps

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

2020 Judge, Press Gazette British Journalism Awards
Oxford Brookes Journalism Advisory Board

2019 Diversity and Inclusion shortlist, NCTJ Awards

Georgina Henry Award for Innovation, Press Awards

2017 Mentee, Women in Journalism mentorship scheme

2015 Mentee, John Schofield Trust mentorship scheme

2015 Barbara Morris Prize for Learning Support (teaching prize £2k)

2009 “STOKED”-short doc film about deaf kids surf camp

-Crowd Award- Junior Deaf Film Festival in Rochester NY
-Official Selection for ASL FIlm Festival in Washington DC
-Official Selection for Maine Deaf Film Festival
-Official Selections for Film about Dissabilities Austin TX
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laura@lauragrb.com
@tiktok_journo @lauragrb
www.lauragrb.com

SMS 14 day course

How to protect your community from
disinformation (2020)

Paul on Politis
Weekly TV chat show
(2015-2019)

¿Y dónde quedó el Cumberland Lodge

comunismo? Interactive timeline
Photoessay (2017) (2017)
Discrimination and the
forgotten batwa
Multimedia piece (2016)

“Politics of post-truth”
podcast (2018)
PressPad
Interactive video (2020)

TikTok verification
example (2020)

360 video (2018) STOKED

Short doc film (2009)

Foreign correspondent for Spanish

language media (2016- 2020)