Rosie Waterhouse
Senior Lecturer
Course Director, MA in Investigative Journalism
Rosie is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Publishing and freelance journalist with extensive experience as an investigative reporter, having worked on the staff of five national newspapers and as a TV reporter. She has twice been a member of the Sunday Times Insight team and worked for the Independent and Independent on Sunday, where she was investigations editor, and for BBC Newsnight, where she contributed to a BAFTA for a film revealing how BSE had spread through the animal feed chain.
She began her career as a reporter on the Chester Chronicle, and later went on to work for Chester News Service, the Manchester Evening News, the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Telegraph.
Rosie has been a lecturer and personal tutor at City University since July 2003 and has taught practical journalism and research on several courses including the Postgraduate courses in Newspaper and Television Current Affairs Journalism. She is currently teaching features and investigations on the BA in Journalism and a Social Science. She developed the pioneering MA in Investigative Journalism which began in September 2007. She has been awarded an Introductory Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education and is an associate member of the Higher Education Academy.
Her investigations have included: revealing the existence of the River Companies, a secret network of companies run by the Conservative Party to launder political donations from companies; babies for sale; MPs for hire. After investigating the origins and spread of allegations of Satanic ritual child abuse she was the first British journalist to reveal it was a myth.
As a freelance, Rosie has contributed articles to The Guardian's G2 section, the New Statesman, the Daily Mail, the Mail on Sunday, the Times Educational Supplement, GQ, The Oldie and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s Search magazine. She has most recently contributed a series of articles in Private Eye on the Satanic Panic. Her television contributions include working as consultant on a BBC Newsnight film on the recent Satanic child abuse panic on the Isle of Lewis, and as research consultant on a BBC Real Story documentary on the Rochdale Satanic abuse controversy.
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