Katie Arnold is an award-winning filmmaker and investigative journalist who makes current affairs and documentary programming for top broadcasters including Channel 4, the BBC and Al Jazeera. Katie's films focus on major human rights issues, from genocide to human trafficking, and her pursuit of these stories has taken her to five continents and numerous hostile environments.

 

Katie has a particular interest in Myanmar - a country that she's been reporting on for over ten years - and she is one of the few international journalists to have reported from inside rebel-held territory since the outbreak of civil war in 2021. She was a field producer on the BAFTA award-winning film Myanmar's Killing Fields about the 2017 Rohingya genocide. Her investigative documentary Myanmar: The Forgotten Revolution earned a five star review in The Guardian and was nominated for multiple awards, including a prestigious Peabody Award. The Yazidis' Secret Children - an investigation into the Yazidi community's refusal to accept children born to ISIS rape victims - won the 2020 One World Media award for best television documentary. In 2024 Katie became the first journalist to have two films nominated for a Rory Peck award in the same year, recognised for her coverage of the conflicts in Myanmar and the West Bank. In 2026, she won the Amnesty International Media Award for best broadcast news report for her investigation into the shooting of Palestinian farmer Saeed al Amour.

 

In January 2026, Katie was appointed executive producer of video news features at The Guardian.