Caitlin Barr

About Me

I'm an enthusiastic London-based journalist interested in writing about culture, current affairs, mental health and lifestyle. 

I am currently on City's MA Magazine Course, and my final project is centred on female experiences with autism. Modules have covered Media Law, Journalism Ethics, Production (Video, Digital, and Subediting), Magazine Storytelling (producing two portfolios of work), and Business of Media (creating a brand and pitching it to industry professionals). I also chose to do the following specialisms: Political Headlines, Arts and Culture, and First-Person Narrative Non-Fiction. I received either a Merit or a Distinction for all of these modules, as well as for my participation in creating XCity Magazine and for my final project.

I was deputy features editor for XCity Magazine this year, and deeply enjoyed working with writers to bring their pitches to print, as well as writing three news pieces and two features across the magazine.

I have also undertaken three internships this year: on the news desk at The Bookseller, where I wrote 26 articles on rights deals, hires in the industry, and other publishing news, as an editorial intern at The Fence, where I did research for features, edited copy, and pitched ideas as well as producing a feature for publication in their next print issue, and finally at The Times as an editorial assistant, researching for interviews and features and writing newsletter copy.

From April 2021 to June 2022, I was Print Editor for the University of Exeter's RAZZ magazine, having previously been Outreach Officer.

In 2021, I won the Student Publication Association's award for Highly Commended in the Best Student Journalist of the South West category. 

Words for Polyester, XCity Magazine, Larder, The Bookseller, RAZZ Magazine (print version available here), the University of Exeter's Exeposé, The Collective Magazine, LAPP, The Indiependent, and Chartist, on topics as varied as the period poverty bill, abortion rights, palatable feminism, the cinematic female gaze, pandemic-fuelled fatphobia, StudyTube and Percy Pig pancakes. I've had the pleasure of interviewing Mandy Barnes from Devon Rape Crisis, online activist and co-founder of The Speak-Up Space, Pheebs Jameson, filmmaker Sayna Fardaraghi, small business owner Kia Wing, and Scouting for Girls frontman Roy Stride.

When I'm not writing I can be found at the cinema, or at a spin class.

You can find me at @caitfrom5to7 on Twitter.