Providing value through media

Experienced media and communications professional with an extensive background in news and sports journalism – Executive key skills summary:

• Adept at briefing senior leaders and politicians and working closely with high-level policy officials and stakeholders in public sector and elite sporting environments.

• Proven track record of managing and supervising responses to sensitive, challenging and complex issues as well as media queries where there is a substantial reputational risk.

• Natural leader with a flair for writing, storyboarding and delivering memorable communications and content across the cutting edge of the modern-day media and digital landscape.

• First-class experience leading on and executing high-profile campaigns and media moments – as well as managing workload of interns, freelancers and supporting colleagues.

• 15+ years of experience operating out in the field reporting, organising events and handling logistics for political visits in addition to selling in stories to local, national and international media outlets.

• Fully trained videographer and editor with experience of filming video content for corporations, individuals, businesses and well-known organisations.

• Seasoned media trainer providing guidance and public relations expertise to a wide-range of people, coupled with a background in teaching lectures and seminars to sixth form and university students.

MORE ABOUt my career

My journalistic and media work has taken me around the world – where I worked previously as an in-house Interviewer, Producer and lone, self-shooting Video Journalist for the England Men’s Cricket Team, covering extensive tours away to Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean.

I was also – for just over a three-year period – based in Dubai, UAE, where I worked as a Senior Sports Journalist and Digital Content Editor for industry leader, Sport360°. Separately, I have also work-travelled elsewhere – reporting at events and conducting interviews in a number of countries, from Qatar to Germany to the United States.

With a solid background and pedigree as a news journalist working in UK media, I enjoyed spells in my early career at ITV News and MailOnline as well as spent time operating as a news and sports agency reporter with Hayters Teamwork. On top of this, I was part of the in-house media team at the All England Club for the 2013 Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

More recently, I have worked in Government Press Relations and Communications – playing a key role, among various other responsibilities, in relaying important messaging and policy developments externally, as well as handling crisis communications and reputation management scenarios. This included a spell working for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency and Her Majesty’s Coastguard in the Department for Transport before – in April 2022 – I joined the Mayor of London team at City Hall.

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Throughout the course of my career, I have completed interviews with hundreds of well-known people, including sporting greats like Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic, Billie Jean King, John McEnroe, Andy Murray, Zinedine Zidane, Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Roberto Carlos, Shane Warne, James Anderson, Sir Ian Botham, Ben Stokes, the Klitschko brothers, Anthony Joshua, Usain Bolt, Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis-Hill to name but a few – while I have also completed one-on-one interviews with famous names such as Sir David Attenborough, Sir Michael Parkinson, Dame Barbara Windsor, Stephen Fry and Sir Richard Branson.