About
Leah Borromeo is a London-based journalist with a nose for the noise behind the headlines. She has served as Foreign Editor at Sky News, fawned over Jon Snow’s bad jokes at Channel 4 News, and nearly died in a Land Rover for APTN. Always keen on a juicy story and an inappropriate comment, she may or may not have an involvement with an otter-obsessed weekly popular culture mailout.
Having a knack of being in the wrong place at the right time, she’s been at the forefront of 24-hour rolling newsgathering for many of the past decade’s “big ones”. Frontline yet fashionable, she’s been featured in Grazia Magazine for her Tweets over the 2009 Iranian elections and received not one, but two kisses from Yasser Arafat. She’s written for the Guardian, Juxtapoz Magazine, Who’s Jack, Sky News Online… and has had work picked up by The Atlantic Monthly, The Art Street Journal, and a bi-weekly rag that gets sued a lot. She owns a trumpet, but prefers if others blow it.
Able to generate, shoot and edit her own material for broadcast and print, she is unleashing herself to an unsuspecting public in the hopes of becoming one of those fuckers you consult when you want to know more about shit. And to win the Pulitzer.
All work published on this site, unless stated, is her own.
REFERENCES
“Leah’s been a freelance news editor on the home and foreign desks for years. She’s one of the few able and willing to flip-flop from one to the other. She’s very vigorous, determined, and strong minded. I’d say she’s a one-off. She’d bring something very bright and original to your desk.” Rob Kirk, Editorial Development Manager, Sky News
“Leah’s association with Sky News is working on the home and foreign desks and in the field both home and abroad. She is highly intelligent and is a driven and committed journalist. Leah thinks outside the box and is always full of ideas on how to move on a story. She has an excellent contacts book too.” Simon Cole, Managing Editor, Sky News
“****.” Martin Benedyk, Home Affairs Editor, APTN
“D U D E.” Nick Toksvig, Senior News Editor, Al Jazeera English
“What I like about you is you cut the crap and just get on with it.” Shaista Aziz, Amnesty International
“You know you’ve made some people cry in this newsroom.” Mark Smith, Senior Producer, Sky News
“Where do you get off trying to pull that shit?” Nick Pollard, fmr Head of News, Sky News
“Pfft. You’re not a vegetarian…!” Jacky Rowland, Middle East Correspondent, Al Jazeera English
“Thank you.” Peter Sharp and Eve Johnson, Beijing Correspondent and Producer, Sky News after a particularly dodgy and illegal live hit which involved late night knocks on doors and much hiding in closets from Amdo, China ahead of the 2008 Olympics.”
“God, why are you such a twat?” internal dialogue, Leah Borromeo
