Writer, podcaster, video editor.
I’m an experienced multimedia journalist and content producer with a career spanning traditional print media, online, radio broadcasting, podcasting, and video production.
My work includes writing news and feature articles, producing and hosting syndicated radio shows, recording voiceovers, and creating video content.
I entered print journalism by joining my local weekly, quickly progressing to senior journalist, section editor, chief sub editor, and eventually deputy editor overseeing 14 regional newspapers. Total weekly print run was one million copies across Essex. For a few years I was club DJ by night and mild-mannered reporter by day.
I contributed as a freelance journalist and researcher to Private Eye, News of the World, Daily Mirror, and Thames News (TV).
Before relocating to New Zealand in 2000, I wrote for Norwegian engineering firm Kvaerner, and was managing editor at Barkers Trident Communications, a contract publishing firm in London.
Upon joining The New Zealand Herald, I served in several editorial roles including chief sub editor of the daily business section, travel editor, careers section editor, and managing editor of NZME’s commercial publications.
As a freelancer in New Zealand, I wrote for and edited numerous consumer and B2B publications, primarily covering business, employment, investing, photography, and engineering. I also served as editor of Herald Homes.
I launched my first podcast in 2008, focusing on the New Zealand sharemarket, and later authored the popular Podcasting Made Easy book. Numerous other podcasts followed covering WordPress, employment, and an international news magazine show.
My entrepreneurial projects include launching Viewfinder – a magazine for hobby filmmakers – running a membership site for freelance journalists in New Zealand, and a movie-review YouTube channel. I also host the weekly Just Jazz radio show.