Kathleen started her media career in the USA as presenter, writer and eventually series producer for the weekly magazine chat show, “Catch the Spirit”. She has been working in the UK since 1992 as a print, television and radio journalist, as well as lecturer and media consultant. She has won international recognition, including several Emmy nominations and a Bronze Medal from the Charleston Film and Video Festival, for documentaries shot in Northern Ireland, the Balkans, Africa, and the USA - exploring topics such as divided communities, poverty, and multifaith/cross-cultural relations.
In her work as an on-air correspondent and producer, she has contributed to news and magazine programmes for broadcasters including the BBC and ITV in the UK, and ABC, CBS and NBC in the USA. Among her interviews are conversations with veteran journalist and former White House press secretary Bill Moyers, Nobel Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathai, heavy-weight boxing champion, Evander Holyfield, Jazz legend Dave Brubeck and Glastonbury festival founder, Michael Eavis. In 2008, Kathleen and her husband Chris Loughlin set up PictureWise Productions which develops video and other multimedia projects for broadcasters and not-for-profit organisations.
Kathleen has written news and feature stories for publications such as the St. Petersburg Times and Christian Century and has recently completed her first children’s novel, entitled Killing Secrets, which focuses on the effects of terrorism and family breakdown on teenagers. She also is a contributor to Connected Spirits (Pilgrim Press 2007), and Global Exchange: Reading and Writing in a World Context and Creating American: Reading and Writing Arguments (both by Prentice Hall 2005).
She is a staff member of a multifaith hospital chaplaincy team in the northwest of England and is an ordained Methodist minister with standing in both the US and British Methodist churches.