Experience

Bespoken Media

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Creative Director and Founder

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  Based in Edinburgh, Bespoken Media offers podcast and audio production, training and consultancy. We can: - advise on developing compelling audio formats to support your own brand, business, or organisation - handle end-to-end production of your podcasts, or advise from 'arms-length' if that better suits your budget - offer training and consultancy, helping you to be self-sufficient at podcast production and distribution within in-house teams - handle the admin of uploading and distributing podcasts to iTunes, Spotify, Podcatcher, etc We offer all potential clients a free initial consultation. Talk to us! Show less



BBC

• Italy
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editor - BBC Own It

  • Aug 2017 - Jan 2020

  At BBC Own It, I led a production team of 12, making and delivering digital content to help UK children navigate the digital world with happiness and confidence. We launched the Own It website for Safer Internet Day 2018, in partnership with Prince William’s Cyberbullying Taskforce. The Own It app was launched in autumn 2019.

• Senior Producer - BBC Generation youth cohorts (2014, 2015, 2016, and Referendum Generation)

  • Feb 2014 - Aug 2017

  Generating, developing and overseeing content across BBC output for the 600 diverse contributors to the BBC's successive 'Generation' series of youth cohorts for BBC News and BBC Scotland. Working collaboratively with programme teams across the BBC and external partners including the University of Edinburgh, the National Theatre of Scotland and others, to maximise the project's impact both within the BBC and externally. Coordinating and overseeing work schedules of a small team of project producers. Working safely with young people, ensuring where necessary that Child Protection concerns are appropriately factored into plans. Maximising project reach and impact whilst working within the constraints of a modest production budget. Show less

• Producer, Radio Documentaries and Features

  • Feb 2013 - Aug 2017

  I pitch and produce a range of factual programmes and other content for outlets across the BBC network (see publications).



Radio 1 Newsbeat at BBC News

• Senior Reporter

  • Oct 2011 - Feb 2014

  - Skills include: getting the best out of broadcast interviewees ranging from prime ministers to young people struggling with mental health conditions, creative package-making, shoot-edit video-production, social media expertise, live reporting, programme editing, and newsreading. - I regularly prepare packages and report live for outlets across BBC News, including 5 Live and Breakfast TV, as well as Today, PM, WATO and BH. - I occasionally stand in as presenter of Radio 4’s ‘Farming Today’, and regard agriculture and rural affairs as personal specialisms. - In 2012, examples of my work featured heavily in Newsbeat’s ‘best news and current affairs programme’ Sony ‘Gold’ winning entry. Show less



BBC News

• Australia
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution

• Producer / coordinator, "Kids Who Care"

  • Oct 2011 - Nov 2011

  My colleague Jonathan Wells and I spearheaded a day of pan-BBC coverage focusing on the lives of young carers. See the links below for examples of the finished work:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11757907http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_9190000/newsid_9192900/9192901.stmhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/11758368

• US Reporter - Radio 1 Newsbeat

  • Mar 2011 - Sep 2011

  As a multimedia lone operator in New York, I spent 6 months travelling the US responding to breaking news and working up original features for broadcast and online.

• Social media reporter and producer - Radio 1 Newsbeat

  • 2010 - 2011

  Creating, optimising and delivering video and other digital content for Newsbeat’s online and social platforms.

• Politics Reporter - Radio 1 Newsbeat

  • 2008 - 2010

  As politics specialist, I made news from Westminster, Brussels, Holyrood, etc, relevant and accessible to R1’s target audience of 15-to-25 year olds. I also trained and enabled young people to interview senior politicians themselves, on issues that most matter to them.

• Producer and reporter - Radio 4, Five Live and Radio 2's Jeremy Vine Show

  • 2005 - 2009

  I produced and presented 5 Live Reports' documentaries and was the regular stand-in 5 Live Weekend Breakfast reporter. I also produced Radio 4's flagship World at One and PM programmes.

• Politics Reporter - BBC English Regions

  • 2005 - 2008

  Live radio reporting, package-making and filming bespoke TV News interviews from Westminster for BBC English Regions.

• Broadcast Journalist - BBC Hereford and Worcester

  • 2003 - 2005

  My documentary about life in a mental health unit was a major part of the station’s Sony Gold Award-winning mental health strand ‘Hearing Voices’.