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 a loose connection to an otter-obsessed weekly. She currently commissions pieces for The Comment Factory from those Noam and un-Noam and is part of a team that won some award for Innovation in Journalism.
Having a knack of being in the wrong place at the right time, she’s been at the forefront of news glut 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, the Index on Censorship, Juxtapoz Magazine, Who’s Jack, Sky News Online, 48hrmag [winner, 2010 Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism], The Atlantic Monthly, The Art Street Journal, and a bi-weekly rag that gets sued a lot. She’s sold her soul in punditry for outlets from LBC Radio to Current TV. She owns a trumpet, but prefers if others blow it [you go blind otherwise].
Able to generate, shoot and edit her own material for broadcast and print, she is currently making her first documentary on Indian cotton farmer suicides, pesticides and fashion.
All work published on this site, unless stated, is her own.
REFERENCES
“Leah’s been a 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 [worked] 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. She 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
“You are like a cross between a political conscience and an alarm clock.” Waldemar Januszczak, The Times
“What I like about you is you cut the crap and just get on with it.” Shaista Aziz, Amnesty International
“You’re a bit c-list and show your bra in a desperate bid for publicity.” Zoe Griffin, Party Princess
“You know you’ve made some people cry in this newsroom.” Mark Smith, Senior Producer, Sky News
“****.” Martin Benedyk, Home Affairs Editor, APTN
“What Leah can give you is a bit of colour. She’s not your run of the mill Mohammed.” Nick Toksvig, Executive Producer, Al Jazeera English
“…your work is awesome.” 48hrmag
“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.”
“The biggest show off since Lady Godiva entered the Royal Enclosure at Ascot claiming she had literally NOTHING to wear’.” Blackadder Goes Fourth
