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United Kingdom

United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

As Director of Commissioning, I head up the Future Video Team, a department we put together in April 2022 to make video for Future’s 200+ brands.Key responsibilities are:• Liaising with brand stakeholders to determine what video needs making.• Commissioning and overseeing the production of that video, with final sign-off of films. • Managing resource to ensure the right areas of the business are receiving the correct level of video production support.In our first year we made over 1200 videos for over 50 brands and won the Team of The Year award at the Future 2022 Awards.

In my 5 years at Barcroft Studios I managed the team that produced the content for Truly’s portfolio of short-form documentary series. Our hit digital shows included Born Different, Hooked On The Look, Dog Dynasty, Shake My Beauty and Love Don’t Judge, all of which racked up tens of millions of views a year. Our films were aimed at a young, diverse audience and told stories often overlooked by mainstream television.In 2021 alone, Born Different episodes had over 1.7 billion views, with Hooked On The Look not far behind on 1.3billion.From 2016 to 2021 our YouTube subscribers rose from 2 million to 9 million subscribers, an increase of 350%.Overseeing the production of all episodes of these series, my key responsibilities were…• Commissioning the episodes for all our digital series.• Overseeing the production of our documentaries, with final sign-off of all films.• Scheduling our episodes and series across key platforms including YouTube and Snapchat.• Overseeing, writing and signing-off headlines, thumbnails and tiles for key digital platforms.During this period our channel won a number of key industry awards, including the following Broadcast Digital Awards...Best Original Web Channel 2019Best Factual Channel 2019Best Original Web Channel 2017Judges said, “Creative innovation and fresh programming is reflected in Barcroft’s success. A true digital trailblazer that more than competes with linear platforms. ”

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

I worked on developing a number of projects with The Sun's digital team at News UK, including the launch of The Sun's movie site, Popcorn.

London, United Kingdom

I worked on The Sun On Sunday's award-winning women's weekly, Fabulous on a year's contract covering the Deputy Editor's maternity leave. I assisted the Editor in all aspects of running Fabulous' multi-platform offering, and lead the team in creating compelling, shareable content that worked across both The Sun and Fabulous' websites.

I worked as a consultant for Contented on the launch of Turnstile, a lifestyle website created for JD Sports. Launched to develop JD Sports as a media owner, I created regular feature templates and contributed daily sports and fashion-led content, published direct-to-page via wordpress.

London, United Kingdom

I edited Britain's biggest selling mens' weekly magazine for seven years until its closure in May 2014. During this period Nuts sold more magazines than any other British mens' general interest title. When it closed Nuts was the No.1 best seller in Apple’s iPhone Newsstand chart, ahead of apps by The Economist, Guardian and Daily Mail.

Sydney, Australia

I was seconded to Australia for a year to edit FHM. Just before returning to the UK I was Highly Commended in the Editor of The Year category at the Emap Australia Awards.

London, United Kingdom

I was recruited by Editor David Davies as his deputy to help rebuild the team, re-invent the magazine and halt an ongoing sales decline. We twice re-invented the magazine, re-emphasising FHM’s ‘Funny, Sexy, Useful’ doctrine to stabilise sales and halt its decline.

London, United Kingdom

In 1997 I was asked to help Editorial Director David Hepworth lead the launch team of Emap's first ever entertainment weekly - the magazine that would become the era-defining title, Heat. I assisted in all aspects of the launch and worked alongside three editors developing the product as Heat moved from the 'British Entertainment Weekly’ of its launch to the picture-led women’s weekly we know today. I won the Exclusive of The Year award at the 2001 Emap Awards for a Big Brother interview – a cover story that saw Heat break the 450,000 sales barrier for the first time.

London, United Kingdom

Big! was Emap Metro's sister title to Smash Hits, launched to reflect the massive success of TV shows like Beverly Hills 90210 and the Aussie soaps. As Editor I re-invented the magazine as a paparazzi-led teenage gossip title. It was an overhaul that was considered a big departure for both the magazine and the market, and was successful in halting the magazine’s sales decline.