cath turner

Born 🇻🇳 • Raised 🇦🇺 • TV Reporter + Producer • Now: Reuters in LA • Before: Channel 7 in London

[cath turner @cctturner]

Hello, Twitter! It’s been a while.

I’m in LA now and freelancing as a reporter/producer for news, features, documentary, sports and general media malarkey.

If you think I might be a good fit for your story or project, I’d love to hear from you.

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@jayrosen_nyu Agreed @jayrosen_nyu. They also underestimated Americans' distaste/hostility towards the Al Jazeera name/brand. Dropping it from this new venture is a smarter move.

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@DionLimTV Hi @DionLimTV.. if you aren’t on deadline and have a spare minute, can you pls follow me back so I can DM you? Have a question for you about the Chinatown attacks. Thankyou.

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@Sofakingdonew45 @SteveSchmidtSES @MSNBC @ProjectLincoln Deafness and lip reading runs deep in my family. I just watched it frame-by-frame several times. I think he says, "But you let me finish. Very professional."

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@KBAndersen @NormOrnstein Possibly because they have already been assigned a particular story/angle by their producer/editor and need a Trump soundbite on that specific topic - and they may only get one chance to ask a question.

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@Olivianuzzi Deafness runs deep in my family and we all learned to lip read. First he says “Go ahead” to the photographers. Then he says to Melania “Do you wanna smile?”

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How I came to be in Ho Chi Minh City for the emotional reunion between a Vietnamese mother and her American daughter, separated through Operation Babylift in 1975.

https://t.co/IdJot9f7RU

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Dep spent the next 44 years looking for her daughter.

Leigh was living in Maine, unaware of her mother’s desperate search.

They recently found each other, and were reunited in Saigon.

My @Reuters story is coming on Monday.

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Can you imagine giving your 3-year-old child up for adoption during a war, without knowing what happened to them?

In 1975, Dep feared the Communist Vietnamese would kill her daughter because the father was an American soldier, so she put her on a plane to the US.

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“I think there is such a thing as fate, a divine power. It took away something but gave something else back in return. I was being patient. I would have looked for her until I die.”
~ Nguyen thi Dep

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In 1975, a desperate mother in Vietnam gave up her 3 yo daughter to Operation Babylift, the US govt’s evacuation of 3,000 children to western countries for adoption.

44 years later, she’s reunited with her American daughter in Saigon.

My @Reuters exclusive coming Monday.

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[Sydney Opera House @SydOperaHouse]

Our hearts go out to everyone affected by the tragic events in Christchurch.

Photo by Craig Greenhill.

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Stunning - and scary - animation from The Weather Channel showing potential storm surge from Hurricane Florence.

To my media friends in her path, who will be working around the clock in dangerous and uncomfortable conditions, providing vital info: thankyou and please stay safe!

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@EmilyGould Hi Emily, just messaged you

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@_kassbekillinem A go fund me account has been set up for Antoine Dangerfield (a fittingly great name), per @jacobinmag , who did the excellent interview with him.

https://t.co/SPN8yyzFHC

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@_kassbekillinem “I’m not mad about getting fired. Because it’s five million people who saw that. And it might change their view on things. Empowering people.

So me losing a job is nothing compared to the big picture. If we can get it in our heads that we are the people, we can change anything.”

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@SheaSerrano “I’m not mad about getting fired. Because it’s five million people who saw that. And it might change their view on things. Empowering people.

So me losing a job is nothing compared to the big picture. If we can get it in our heads that we are the people, we can change anything.”

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@SheaSerrano He got fired for posting the video

https://t.co/bHO6VJdKOn