"Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Travel - Women - Culture - Adventure
Louise is a journalist, writer and editor whose career spans international women's magazines, national newspapers and reporting from some of the world's more remote corners.
She holds a BA in English Literature and Art History from the University of Bristol and a PgDip in Journalism from Cardiff University, alongside NCTJ training, Media Law and Teeline Shorthand qualifications (100wpm). She began her career in local and national newspapers before moving into magazine journalism, and has worked for Conde Nast Traveller, The Guardian and best-selling women's magazines in the UK and Middle East.
Women's lives have been a recurring thread throughout her journalism, from investigations into sex trafficking, forced marriage and date-rape drugging to reporting on major stories including Britain's first conviction for an honour killing, the IVF ruling and UK's first face transplant. She has interviewed figures including Emma Thompson, Richard Branson and Kate Adie, and was a young media panellist on BBC Woman's Hour. She has also been invited to Number 10 Downing Street and Scotland Yard in her capacity as a journalist.
In 2011, her Closer! cover story exclusive investigating the link between underage sunbed use and rising skin cancer was read out in Parliament and contributed to public debate around sunbed regulation. The Sunbeds (Regulation) Act 2010 came into force in 2011, preventing under-18s from using sunbeds.
Today, Louise writes primarily about travel with a particular interest in family and adventure, ski and heli-ski, safari and experiential travel. She adapts her voice to each publication, bringing her own perspective while writing with its readership and editorial identity in mind.
Her own adventures have included skiing to the North Pole while recording scientific data; a climb-ski of Mt Blanc's North Face; racing Murren's historic Inferno; a family elephant-conservation on the Zambezi; a sunrise hot-air balloon over the Sahara with her son; and visiting women-led artisanal workshops on Lake Malawi.
In March 2024, she reported exclusively for BBC Sport from St Mortiz on the historic return of the Ladies' Grand National at the Cresta Run, where women raced from the Top on equal terms with men for the first time since 1921. The story ran on Mothering Sunday as the BBC Sport and BBC.co.uk front-page Top Story of the day, remaining prominently featured for several days.
In April 2024, she broke an international exclusive on the Verbier ski helicopter crash, published under her pen name Josephine Surcouf with The Telegraph's foreign correspondent Henry Samuel. Her follow-up "Verbier 'in mourning'", ran under her own byline. The story subsequently became front page news internationally, and in 2025 she was named a finalist for TravMedia's 2025 "Exclusive of the Year" award.
Alongside journalism, Louise has worked across education, charity and conservation projects in Cambodia, Malawi and the Philippines, and with UK travel brands on media strategy, press campaigns and story placement. In 2025, for example, she and her team secured national and International coverage for Thames Rockets launch of Rocket Rebel, the UK's first eco-tourist jet sightseeing boat, including exclusives in the Daily Mail and Financial Times, She has also appeared on BBC's Travel Show and on travel, ski and adventure podcasts, and has interviewed leading figures across travel, adventure, sport and the arts.
Her work continues to be driven by the same wide-reaching curiosity that brought her into journalism in the first place: a fascination with people, places, cultures and experiences.
