I am taking part in the Giants program, Cohort 8, for early stage founders.

I'm the founder of Hembury Books, which is a hybrid publisher in Sydney. It provides end-to-end book coaching, editing and publishing services to nonfiction authors.Hembury Books authors retain their IP and royalties, and Hembury Books does not retain any royalties.

I'm the author of two memoirs, Once Around the Sun and Our Home in Myanmar. Praise for Our Home in Myanmar"An honest, detailed, and well-structured account of the personal and political." KIRKUS REVIEWS"This book captures an extraordinary period in Myanmar’s tragically short-lived transition to democracy... This is the first book in English to recount what it felt like to live through that ecstatic period." AUSTRALIA'S FORMER AMBASSADOR TO MYANMAR, NICHOLAS COPPEL, IN AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW “Our Home in Myanmar is a delightful read, both an accessible introduction to Myanmar and a candid behind-the-scenes look at journalism in a developing country.” JOHN GRANT ROSS, BOOKISH ASIA"Anyone interested in Southeast Asia should read this perceptive and illuminating book." KEITH LYONS, BORDERLESS MAGAZINE“A beautifully paced, enlightening and empathetic account of what it took to get by in this beguiling, but sadly blighted land.” JAMES PETERS, BETTER READ THAN DEAD"Jessica Mudditt deftly brings home the absurdity, humour, danger and enchantment of life in Myanmar in a time of change." JEREMY FERNANDEZ, ABC SYDNEY NEWS ANCHOR"It's a terrific memoir of a place and time unknown to many Australians. Very much recommended!" WENDY HARMER, ABC RADIO

My articles have been published by Forbes, BBC, Economist Intelligence Unit, CNN, GQ, Company Director Magazine, Australian Geographic, The Telegraph, The Guardian and The Sydney Morning Herald. I mostly wrote about business and technology for these publications.

My work with the Myanmar Climate Change Alliance, which sits under UN Habitat, involved going on a 10-day mission in drought-stricken and cyclone-hit areas to produce a series of articles for national media outlets. I also produced digital content and helped organised training on climate change for journalists.

I founded the Myanmar Foreign Correspondents Club to bring journalists together in a challenging environment for reporting. We met every month for three and a half years and had guest speakers in our third year. The club had up to 40 attendees each month, which included local journalists, expat journalists and those flying in on reporting assignments from the likes of Al Jazeera and The New York Times. Due to the military coup of 2021 and ongoing oppression of journalists in Myanmar, the MFCC no longer exists.

I was the first foreign staff member employed by Myanmar's state-run newspaper. The opportunity arose in the lead up to Myanmar's historic general elections of 2015, which ended 50 years of military rule. My responsibilities included editing front page news stories, writing features and coordinating the copy-editing team. I also conducted training workshops for journalists at state-run newspapers in the capital city of Nay Pyi Taw and provided input on layout and design for the newspaper and its website.

My responsibilities included writing reports on investment opportunities for British companies across a range of sectors such as oil and gas, producing regular investment news bulletins for embassy staff and members of the British Chamber of Commerce, writing press releases and helping to arrange visits by British trade delegations. The position was a six month consultancy and I have continued to work for the embassy on a variety of projects.

Based on interviews with UNAIDS and Save the Children’s implementing partners and beneficiaries in Yangon and Kachin State, I wrote a report titled, "Innovative approaches to promote harm reduction programs in Myanmar." I also produced a case study on promoting harm reductions programs in Myanmar through peer workers.

I wrote news and features about humanitarian issues in Bangladesh and Myanmar.Some of the topics I have reported on include malnutrition, HIV and sex work, bird flu, anthrax, bio-fortified foods and earthquake preparedness.

I edited news and feature articles for the first privately owned daily newspaper in Myanmar for 50 years. I worked part-time on Myanma Freedom Daily's news desk until it suspended publication in April.

I wrote, edited and commissioned feature articles for The Myanmar Times special reports, which were published every 3-4 weeks and are up to 20 pages in length. I also mentored reporters and translators.

ULAB publishes Bangladesh's only campus newspaper exclusively produced by students. I ran workshops on various aspects of journalism, such as sourcing, interviewing tips, feature writing and hard news reporting. The ULABian is published quarterly in both English and Bangla.

I wrote news and feature articles and had a weekly column in The Weekend Independent Magazine. The Independent is a Bangladeshi national newspaper:

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I filed breaking news stories for a number of newspapers owned by News Quest in North London, such as The Enfield Independent. I also had features, photographs, restaurant reviews and obituaries published.

Subjects:Media law, shorthand (100 words a minute), local and central government, news writing.