Catherine Jacob is a London based reporter.  She previously worked as Sky News' Environment Correspondent and held the role of correspondent and presenter for Five News. She has won several journalistic awards. 

Catherine 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 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.  

Whilst at Five News Catherine spent three months covering the 21/7 terror trial as well as the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal. Catherine was also Five News' Royal Correspondent.