Accomplished freelance multimedia journalist and writer, with fluency in four languages – Spanish, Portuguese, English and French – and distinctive international editorial and leadership experience from over 20 years of working with major news organisations as a reporter, foreign correspondent, editor and director.
After cutting my teeth on a respected local UK newspaper, earning a nomination for regional young journalist of the year, I worked in London for the Evening Standard from 2003 in news, arts, sports and features. As a freelancer I also contributed to the Sunday Times, Mail on Sunday, The Sun, Daily Mirror and others.
In 2006 I moved to the US to work as a foreign correspondent and video-journalist, before transferring to Paris to launch the European bureau of a British news agency focused on breaking news, entertainment, features and sport. On completion, I returned to Miami as an editor, before becoming bureau chief and director for US, Latin American and Caribbean operations. After four years across those roles, I became a freelancer in 2020.
My professional archive reflects my passion for discovery, storytelling and the methodology that creates original and meaningful content: from defending victims of injustices while beat-reporting from gritty northern England, through exposing exploitation of illegal immigrants with undercover investigations in London, to covering a wild myriad of stories from across the US and Latin America, such as at the 2010 Chilean mining disaster.
Alongside that comes a wealth of strategic leadership, editing and business development experience, having managed budgets, projects and the work of staffers and freelancers across multiple locations as well as led editorial and distribution expansions into Europe and Latin America.