EXPERIENCE
Correspondent | BBC News | Oct 2013 - Present
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Deployed nationally and internationally across all BBC News outlets.
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Highly experienced live broadcaster.
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Creative, accurate packaging.
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Frequently uncover original stories.
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Technologically minded; self-shooting, editing and feeding from the field.
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Maintains presence online and through social media.
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Trained to work in Hostile Environments
Reporter | BBC South Today | April 2006 – Present
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District Reporter for BBC South, researching, producing and bringing to air my own, exclusive stories as well as reacting to breaking news of the day.
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Film and edit my own material on a regular basis - user of several cameras and the FCP, Quantel and Avid edit systems.
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Live presenting experience, including anchoring Outside Broadcasts.
Bradford Reporter | BBC Look North | 2002 – 2006
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Relied heavily on my contacts in and around the City to constantly originate exclusive, lead stories.
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Worked on stories such as the Bradford riots and the discovery of the London 7/7 bombers living in Leeds.
Presenter/Reporter | BBC Newsround | 2005
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Applied creative editing and filming techniques on a six month attachment to Newsround.
Broadcast Journalist | BBC Look North | 2001 – 2002
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Handling items both in the studio and out on location I developed a true understanding of the way television news works.
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February 2002 awarded “Newcomer of the Year” at the BT awards.
BBC News Trainee | BBC News| 2000 – 2001
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Selected in a highly competitive process to become a BBC News Trainee.
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Completed six months of full time tri-media training
Freelance Reporter | ITN | 1999 – 2000
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Whilst a student at City University, worked as a producer and reporter across several ITN outlets (radio and television).
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Assistant Producer at FIVE News researching, scripting and field producing coverage of national and international stories.

