CAITLIN FITZSIMMONS

After five years in London, the opportunity came up to move to San Francisco. I’m always one for a new adventure so I seized the chance and for the past few months I’ve been working on the arrangements in my spare time. Since I’m from Sydney originally, I’ve told my family that I am slowly moving home in a westerly direction!

I arrived here yesterday and I’m focusing first on getting settled in my new home and sorting out the paperwork to be allowed to work here in the US. Hopefully this won’t take too long because I’m keen to start writing for some US publications and also to report from the West Coast for British and Australian publications. There is plenty to write about, whether in my specialist fields of media, social reportage and the environment, or as a travel writer exploring California and the Pacific North-West.

My profile of Rebekah Brooks, nee Wade, is in The Australian today. The editor of British tabloid The Sun, the biggest selling newspaper in UK, is set to take the helm at News International, Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper division.

I interviewed some of Wade’s current and former colleagues at News International, including her former editor at the News of the World, Phil Hall.

The full story is in The Australian’s Media section today and online.