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London, Gb

Crawley , Gb

Head of content for The World's 50 Best Bars, North America's 50 Best Bars, Asia's 50 Best Bars and The World's Best Hotels.

London, London, Gb

▪ Pioneered social first content at M&S including ensuring we were the first brand with an IGTV channel, the first European business to alpha test Google's Director's Mix campaign, the first UK food retailer on Tik Tok and remain the highest followed food retailer in the UK across social channels surpassing the 2 million threshold on Instagram▪ Transformed food publications, launching the first food-only magazine: M&S Food and created, edited and produced the first cook book at M&S for 10 years: Cook with M&S▪ Set the creative direction of M&S Food's photography for more than four years, evolving to keep food porn at the heart of everything we do▪ Created the celebrity ambassador tasting programme at M&S and launched the social-first series: What's New at M&S, which broke industry benchmarks on YouTube in its first year for viewing times (more than 30 years of footage watched)▪ Onboarded content and chef specialists including Fred Sirieix and Tom Kerridge, creating and managing their content across all channels from recipe cards to TV ads▪ Lead M&S Food's live streaming content programming during lockdown, launching Sparks Live - our live shopping and entertainment shows, which set a Guinness World Record for most people signed up to a live cooking event▪ Transformed food's online presence with dedicated inspiration content and launched M&S's first recipe hub▪ Worked across experiential, advertorial and TV content partnerships including The Big Feastival, Cooking with the Stars, Fresh Market Update and Observer Food Monthly▪ Managed a core team of social media specialists, SEO digital writers, publishing creatives and art buyers as well as commissioning freelancers

London, London, Gb

To concept, create and seed inspiring and informative editorial across the digital landscape of M&S.com, edit the online Adventures in Food magazine and produce, commission and edit topical, specialist food and drink features and social media assets for M&S's online magazine, Style & Living magazine.

New York, Us

London, Gb

Subeditor and features writer across an array of inflight magazines including Royal Wings, Virgin, SAS, Select, Aircalin and Lufthansa.

Berlin, De

Beverly Hills, California, Us

Writing, editing and subbing all content on the TM Blog. Producing, evaluating and maintaining creative and marketing campaigns and managing and commissioning a network of freelance contributors.

London, Uk - Inner London, Gb

Managing a content project that brought together a community of bloggers, photographers, videographers and translators for a series of city-centric local travel guides on London, Paris and Barcelona.

London, Gb

London, England, Gb

New York City, Ny, Us

Journalist and intern for AOL Money and AOL Travel. Huffington post blogger on Culture and Entertainment, Lifestyle contributor and Food correspondent.

London, London, Gb

Controlled the master storyboards at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Tracked, monitored and chased all news items (flash quotes, media conference highlights, previews, reviews and communications) produced by the central editorial team across all venues and all sports. Worked as a sub editor and reporter at multiple venues covering broadcast zones, media mix zones and media conferences. Floor manager at the Stadium managing the reporters, translators and volunteers at the Paralympics.

London, Gb

Contracted to write their annual ‘Far East’ magazine and brochure and various travel articles for ‘Vista Magazine’. Producing online copy and a regional guide to Italy for their luxury world guides website.

London, England, Gb

Editorial work, research and interviews. Production assistant on shoots, created and edited OOVs and trained in ENPS.

London, England, Gb

Research, column writing, features, pitching, proof reading, editing and transcribing. Copywriter for the books, theatre and travel sections, compiled events, club and concert listings and continued as a columnist for the books section.

Westchester, Illinois, Us

Online marketing and brand asset management. Website testing.

London, England, Gb

Wrote and researched news bulletins for GMTV and short news articles for the Meridian news website.

Gb

Produced, edited and uploaded the daily film news and the UK and US weekly film charts. Attended pre-screenings, premieres, theatre launch parties and interviewed directors and producers for online features. SEO and analytics.

Editorial, editing and subbing experience and worked as a culture critic.

Selected images and promotional products, liaised with press offices, wrote, proofed and edited copy. Compiled their fashion page, wrote book reviews, sourced and built the ‘Events’ page and was commissioned to write the quarterly ‘Dream On’ column.

Nctj, Broadcast Journalism/Freelance Journalism

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Ba Hons, English Literature & French