Background:
A Video Journalist and Digital Producer creating content for CNN.com and CNN International. I shoot, produce, and edit my own work covering topics from cars and luxury, to conflict, commodities and sanctions. I have experience adhering to budgets, finding fixers and keeping to tight deadlines.
Experience:
CNN:
Video Journalist/Producer (2016-Present)
Founding member of the news enterprise team for digital video in London. Covering stories about Syrian war surgeons getting training in Gaziantep to a Syrian philharmonic orchestra in Germany as well as the numerous terror attacks across Europe and the UK.
Bloomberg
Video Journalist/Producer (2013 – 2016)
My work has recently taken me to Molenbeek in Brussels in the wake of the 2015 Paris attacks. However I have also produced from Iran, Russia, East Ukraine and other parts of the world. Topics have ranged from a half hour show on an Italian luxury brand to an exclusive interview with the Russian Prime Minister.
Night Editor, Digital Media Desk (April 2012 – December 2012)
Here I was part of a launch team that started Bloomberg's award winning iPad app. I produced content and curated the app during Asia and early European broadcasting hours
The Economist
Multimedia Producer (March 2012 – April 2012)
Created and edited video and audio content for Economist.com
Al Jazeera English
Interview Producer (August 2011 – March 2012)
Booked guests for live TV-news bulletins and for programmes including the flagship daily discussion show Inside Story.
Skills:
- Editorial
- HTML/CSS
- Analytics (Chartbeat, Parse.ly, Comscore, Adobe Omniture)
- Editing (Premiere Pro, FCP, Avid)
- WordPress and other CMS systems
- Arabic, French, basic Javascript, C++
- After Effects
- Social Media
- Writing
- Shooting (Sony FS7, Canon C100, Canon C300, Sony a7s, RED Raven, DJI Osmo, Gimbal stabilisers, sliders etc)
- Radio Production
Education:
City University, London MA International Broadcast and Online Journalism (Sept 2010 – June 2011)
Cardiff University, Wales BEng Civil & Environmental Engineering (Sept 2007 – June 2010)