Caroline Turriff is an award nominated social affairs journalist who was shortlisted for the Amnesty International Media Awards for a report on race and police brutality she did for BBC TV's Newsnight which was also broadcast on BBC1, Radio 4, Radio 1 and run by the Guardian, Mail and Metro newspapers. The report was seen, heard and read by over 10 million people.
Since returning to journalism in 2016, she has broken dozens of exclusive headline stories on social affairs, mental health and addiction for Newsnight, Radio 4, BBC London and various newspapers.
Prior to this, while working as a foreign correspondent in the Caribbean, she wrote and performed a series of 10 comedy dramas about race and identity in Jamaica which were broadcast on BBC World Service Radio and Radio 4 to an audience of up to 44 million people each time. She has also completed reporting trips for the BBC to Sudan, where she spent a month covering the war, Kenya, Spain, Cuba and Argentina.
Caroline has been diagnosed with or experienced significant problems with 11 different mental health conditions since the age of 7 including drug, alcohol and shopping addiction, bulimia, OCD, PTSD, self-harm, BPD, bipolar and gender dysphoria. She is now in long term recovery from most of these conditions and celebrated 19 years clean from drug and alcohol addiction in January 2024. She has however remained on the Register of Severe Mental Illness in England since 2008.
She is an obsessive gardener, tree planter and parent to her furry cat baby, Angel.
