Hello! I’d love to share with you a bit more about my career history. I’m a multimedia journalist, content writer, editor and an all-round communications enthusiast from Aberdeen, Scotland, currently based in Berlin, Germany. I am a former editor of The Local Germany and I hosted and produced the Germany in Focus podcast – this was a real dream come true!

Let me pause here and say: I’d really love it if you subscribed to my Substack newsletter, Kaffee+Kuchen. You’ll find me chatting about life in Germany, Berlin, being a freelancer, creativity and lots of other interesting topics.

Throughout my career over the last 15+ years I’ve written for several publications including Grazia, Glamour, The Debrief, Refinery29, The Herald and Sunday Herald and Deutsche Welle, I’ve also contributed to BBC Radio Scotland and TV news show The Nine as a Germany correspondent.

I’m also a CELTA-qualified business English teacher and have taken on copywriting, editing and proofreading assignments for clients.

I previously worked as a content editor, features writer and reporter at the Evening Express in Aberdeen, and as a reporter and columnist at the Evening Times, Herald and Sunday Herald newspapers in Glasgow.

As part of the International Journalists Programme (IJP), I worked as a foreign correspondent at Die Welt/N24 in Berlin in 2015.

I have covered social affairs, crime, gender issues, including violence against women, politics, culture and lifestyle stories. I have written extensively about refugees and have received awards for my coverage. Major events I’ve covered include various German, UK and Scottish elections, the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, and the Irish referendum on abortion.

I’m also interested in a wide range of other topics – from tech and travel to food (yes, I’ve even been a bread correspondent at one point!).

Please get in touch with any questions, comments or commissions by emailing rachel.loxton1@gmail.com or stop by for a chat on TikTok (@RachLoxton) or Instagram (@RachLoxton) where I’m often found talking about life in Germany.