Experience

Scriberia

• United Kingdom
• Design Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scriptwriter

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  Working with a talented team of animators, experts in the evolving markets of visual content and visual thinking, I write scripts to accompany their animations. Working with a talented team of animators, experts in the evolving markets of visual content and visual thinking, I write scripts to accompany their animations.



The Times

• United Kingdom
• Media Production
• 700 & Above Employee

• Obituarist

  • Apr 2017 - Present

  I write obituaries for The Times' Register section. I write obituaries for The Times' Register section.



Freelance features writer and editor

• Freelance features writer and editor

  • Dec 2009 - Present

  Working on retainer for Femail since 2008, I have written a wide variety of features for the newspaper, as well as freelancing widely for other publications, from The Guardian, to Psychologies, Grazia, Mother & Baby magazine and others.I am practiced at generating fresh ideas, interviewing and writing compelling copy, often under time pressure. Working on retainer for Femail since 2008, I have written a wide variety of features for the newspaper, as well as freelancing widely for other publications, from The Guardian, to Psychologies, Grazia, Mother & Baby magazine and others.I am practiced at generating fresh ideas, interviewing and writing compelling copy, often under time pressure.



Guardian

• Columnist, Guardian Family

  • Jul 2012 - May 2013

  I wrote a weekly column for the Family section chronicling my dad's vascular dementia. I wrote a weekly column for the Family section chronicling my dad's vascular dementia.



Daily Mail

• Newspaper Publishing
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Commissioning editor, Femail

  • Aug 2008 - Dec 2009

  Generating constant ideas, commissioning a huge variety of writers, editing copy, writing headlines and sells, proofreading. Generating constant ideas, commissioning a huge variety of writers, editing copy, writing headlines and sells, proofreading.



News UK

• United Kingdom
• Online Audio and Video Media
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Writer, Sun Woman, The Sun newspaper

  • Aug 2006 - Aug 2008

  The role involved lots of travel - from visiting Kiribati, a remote archipelago of islands in the Pacific affected by climate change, to visiting Moscow to attend a 'school' for women trying to bag oligarchs. It also involved generating constant ideas, writing for the next day's newspaper and commissioning freelance writers. I interviewed Gordon Brown at 10 Downing Street in his short tenure as PM and I worked on many Sun Woman campaigns (against domestic abuse, for example) which had a big impact.



The Times

• United Kingdom
• Media Production
• 700 & Above Employee

• Features assistant and writer, Saturday Times Magazine

  • Jul 2003 - Aug 2006

  I was shortlisted for The Times' prestigious graduate trainee scheme and then got offered a role on the Magazine. Starting out working for the food editor, I wrote two weekly columns - the 'Taste Test' and 'My Best Dish', asking a wide range of celebrities about their favourite food memories.I then wrote features for the Magazine on a wide variety of topics and interviewed lots of celebrities, including Coleen Rooney, Grayson Perry, Claudia Schiffer and John Mayer.I also wrote a weekly beauty column, 'Bag of Tricks', asking well-known people to share the contents of their make-up bags.And I wrote for the now defunct Body and Soul section on personal development.