Kimberley Mannion

Currently reporting on global business for Bloomberg News, I am a an MA International Journalism graduate of City, University of London, which I won a full scholarship to complete.


Over the last year I have worked as a freelance journalist for Agence France-Presse, the i Paper and The Herald in Glasgow.  


During my undergraduate degree at the University of Glasgow I was Editor-in-Chief of The Glasgow Guardian. I was shortlisted for Student Journalist of the Year at the Scottish Press Awards. At the UK Student Publication Awards, I won Best Arts & Culture piece, and was shortlisted for Best Reporter and Best News Story. 


I have worked as a journalist abroad at the Olive Press in Spain and World Radio Paris. Recently I won the Rupert Cornwell Student Prize for Foreign Reporting and will be reporting from Lithuania. 

Inside police WhatsApp groups and why officers keep getting it wrong

“Callous, degrading and desensitised” were the words Emma Webber used to describe the way officers from Nottinghamshire police discussed the murder of her teenage son Barnaby over WhatsApp following last year’s Nottingham attacks.
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Foreign students offered 12 times more clearing courses at uni than UK students

Foreign students have access to 12 times as many clearing courses as UK students for the University of Glasgow, the Herald can reveal.
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Inside the cyber 'war room' where Israeli AI experts work to locate Hamas hostages

“I have not slept for almost two weeks now, but every time I start falling asleep I have pictures of the hostages on my desk that get me up and running again,” says Omri Marcus, who is heading one half of the Gitam BBDO “war room” in Tel Aviv.
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