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Jacob was educated at Saint Anthony"s Girls School in Sunderland and graduated from Durham University with a degree in Modern Languages in 1999.
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Catherine Jacob
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Career
Foreign the French actress, see Catherine Jacob (actress). In her early career she was a traffic reporter for British Broadcasting Corporation Newcastle and news correspondent for British Broadcasting Corporation Look North. In September 2000 she moved to ITN an editorial trainee, working across Channel 4 News, Independent Television News and 5 News.
She became a fully-fledged producer and later reporter for Independent Television News in 2002.
From 2004 she was the Royal Correspondent for 5 News and from 2007 the Environment Correspondent for Sky News. From 2010 she would become a freelance news correspondent for Sky News until April 2013.
In 2013 she appeared as a news presenter for Granada Reports, Independent Television News Tyne Tees and Lookaround. She is the youngest journalist ever to be awarded the for Best News Story at the Monte Carlo film and television awards for an investigation into child labor in the ship breaking yards of Bangladesh.
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