Since joining The Independent as an online news reporter I have broken stories on ‘hangover-free alcohol‘, Jeremy Hunt’s reaction to a new potentially live-saving HIV drug, and calls for violent threats towards female MPs to be taken more seriously.

I also covered the EU referendum, the US election and the killing of MP Jo Cox, and used my language skills to gather a number of eyewitness reports on an earthquake in south Japan, verify information on the Brussels bombings, and translate the French reaction to the Brexit vote.

Read more on my Independent contributor page: http://www.independent.co.uk/author/katie-forster