James M. Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

An award-winning journalist and editor with over 15 years’ experience writing and commissioning across print, digital, TV & radio at CNN and The Times. Subject matter expert in news, sport, politics, communications, with extensive newsroom and managerial experience. Reputation for leading teams to cover multichannel campaigns and live events.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for planning, commissioning, and editing content acrossinternational news & politics, features, opinion, breaking news & majorevents
• Manage full production team with four direct reports
• Work closely with senior management to shape company direction anddigital-first strategy, leading company-wide meetings in absence of Editorin-Chief
• Run full content & event planning process across organisation,implementing new workflow structure and meeting strategies to improveemployee engagement, production efficiency and content quality

London, England Metropolitan Area

• Editor, Content Writer and MentorNews and feature writer on a range of subjects from art to antisemitism as well as a media consultant for a number of small businesses.
• News and feature writer for leading international websites
• Providing content strategy and editorial advice to small businesses
• Media adviser to various charities
• Leading mentoring sessions for young BAME journalists

London, United Kingdom

• Award-winning news and feature writer for CNN.com, reporting on political, social and sporting affairs across Britain and Europe. Played leading role in digital and broadcast integration across all platforms including.
• Project manager for award-winning series on antisemitism in Europe
• Led successful integration between television and digital for several high-profile projects including 2014 World Cup, 2019 Rugby World Cup and 2019 Cricket World Cup
• Key player in growth of CNN social media channel growth across all platforms
• Use of A/B testing, SEO and Google analytics to ensure best possible performance across CNN.com
• Managing of budgets for a number of projects including overseas trips

• Responsibilities:
• Breaking international sport stories and securing interviews with some of the biggest names within the industry
• Covering global sporting events including the Ashes, Champions League football, and international cricket and tennis tournaments
• Making regular television and radio appearances to provide sports analysis and insight for media outlets including BBC 5live, BBC London & CNN
• Writing expert comment and analysis for national newspapers and broadcasters
• Led 2013 media campaign to free football player Zahir Belounis from captivity in QatarKey Achievements:

London, United Kingdom

Cover Premier League football matches across the country for the Times and Times online. Also write news and feature pieces.

UK

London, United Kingdom

Reported on football matches across the country for Daily Mirror. Wrote match reports, interviews and stories for the paper on a regular basis for four years.

Interviews and reporting from various sporting eventsBroadcastingCommentary on digital radio and websiteEditing packages and producing for live showsResearchFeature reporting

Ba Hons, Politics And Modern History 2:1

Education record

A Levels, .

Post-Graduate Diploma, Journalism