I have worked as a reporter, commissioning editor and features editor on Fleet Street news, business, sport and arts desks.
From January 2006 to December 2009, I was Arts & Entertainment Editor at Times Online, the website of The Times and Sunday Times.
I am an ITN trained multimedia journalist with extensive presentation, production and editing skills. I have reported from the Bafta Awards, Glastonbury and the Cannes Film Festival, and created Sony Award-winning multimedia productions.
I dig the arts big time: theatre, opera, dance, classical, rock, pop and comedy. Most of all I dig the movies and the art. Give me the keys to Kahlo’s La Casa Azul or Dali’s Portlligat in Cadaqués and I’ll die a happy man.
While at The Times, I interviewed Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller, and rubbed shoulders with Mike Tyson and Diego Maradona in Cannes. It was a tough job, but someone had to do it.
Today I am Online Editor at The Cairns Post, Australia. Published continuously since 1888, the Post is the oldest business in Cairns.
Since touching down in Oz, I have discussed the merits of Speedos with our future king, taken our readers Behind the Portico, and hovered over the Great Barrier Reef in a helicopter looking for Migaloo, the elusive white whale.
I live blogged and tweeted throughout cyclone Yasi, my category five introduction to tropical mega-storms. Cairns.com.au received three million page impressions in three days, smashing our monthly record.
I’ve interviewed Blade Runner star Daryl Hannah, taken Oprah Winfrey* above the rainforest canopy, and filed live reports, images and video from the Coral Sea on a centenary expedition to Australia’s most famous shipwreck.
Over the last six months I have led the Post’s entry into the multimedia world, managing a team producing a diverse array of news and feature productions, including the most watched video ever produced by News Limited Australia, Cassius the Crocodile, viewed 990,000 times. View videos on our YouTube.
You can download my resume as a PDF here. And view my LinkedIn here.
The Cairns Post: my current employer
As a younger hack, I honed my skills at the sharp end on Britain’s biggest selling quality Sunday newspaper, interviewing artist Damien Hirst, biologist Richard Dawkins and world wide web inventor Tim Berners-Lee.
Ten years as a digital journalist makes me a zealous ambassador for the best of high tech. Six months on the Sydney Morning Herald‘s SMH.com.au was my rapid fire introduction to rolling 24/7 news.
A year as Web Editor for environmental charity Friends of the Earth gave many insights into the environmental concerns increasingly shaping our world.
I am hugely enthused by the rapidly evolving technologies continuously redefining the ways we find, consume and share news. We are living during an epochal moment in the transfer of printed news from paper to screen. I’m thrilled to be bang in the middle of the shakedown.
My journalistic interests encompass the arts in their widest sense, scientific discovery, politics, travel and history in all its forms. I like dishing dirt too.
I’m passionate about traditional and contemporary news sources and their role as conduits between facts and understanding. To me, nothing is more thrilling than digging up something important and spreading the word.
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*well, a life-sized Oprah Winfrey cut-out anyway
(an award-winning campaign!)