Louise Tickle

Award-winning journalist Louise Tickle specialises in reporting on domestic abuse, family courts and child protection.

 

In 2026 she and fellow journalist Hannah Summers won Campaign of the Year at the Press Awards for their family court reporting on murdered schoolgirl Sara Sharif. In 2025 they won the Media Freedom Awards prize for Campaign of the Year for the same investigation, which took them to the Court of Appeal in a successful challenge to a ban on media naming the three judges who made orders relating to the Sharif children.

 

In 2022, Louise's Tortoise investigation Hidden Homicides was nominated for the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils. She was previously shortlisted for her work on the BBC ONE film Behind Closed Doors and her Guardian reporting on domestic abuse.

 

In 2016 she was also shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism, and was joint winner of the Bar Council’s Legal Reporting Award. She has won a number of CIPR Awards for outstanding education journalism, and has twice been winner of the Rosemary Goodchild Award for Sexual Health Journalism.

 

Louise is a committee member of The Transparency Project which aims to promote greater understanding of family law.

 

A confident and engaging public speaker and commentator, Louise is available to chair conferences, workshops and seminars.

 

Louise is based near Bristol. She heads west to the Pembrokeshire coast and its spectacular island wildlife with her partner and two sons whenever she can.