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Perth, Wa, Au

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Coordinating the strategic development of ABC News and the crossover between content and technology, with a focus on digital transformation.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Content lead, CoreMedia 10 web content management system upgrade program

Perth, Australia

Leading the digital transformation of the ABC newsroom in Perth and beyond.

Sydney

Coordinator of the news agenda and editor of the homepage for The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia's leading quality independent news masthead. I oversee news being created across all sections of the newsroom - including local, national and international news, business, sport, entertainment and lifestyle - and determine the priorities to be promoted on our mastheads. I coordinate major cross-topic news stories, liaising with five Fairfax newsrooms across Australia and affiliated… Show more Coordinator of the news agenda and editor of the homepage for The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia's leading quality independent news masthead. I oversee news being created across all sections of the newsroom - including local, national and international news, business, sport, entertainment and lifestyle - and determine the priorities to be promoted on our mastheads. I coordinate major cross-topic news stories, liaising with five Fairfax newsrooms across Australia and affiliated newsrooms in New Zealand, along with foreign correspondents located in bureaux throughout the world.Analytics are used to closely monitor the performance of content and generate a close insight into the digital readership, which informs more accurate story commissioning and promotion. Show less

Coordinator of the news agenda for the Sydney Morning Herald, including liaising with foreign correspondents and editors from news, sport and lifestyle sections across the newsroom. I had overall editorial control of the newsroom out of hours, including legal responsibility for copy, commissioning all staff and dealing with reader feedback.

Sydney, Australia

I was a core member of a team tasked with implementing a new editorial content management system into Fairfax Media to unify digital and print production across five states and New Zealand for the first time.The project included a rigorous international examination of the market-leading systems that involved newsroom visits to the US, UK and China. The CMS chosen was the new Adobe AEM system - at that time untested in mass-scale editorial production, but now acknowledged as one of the… Show more I was a core member of a team tasked with implementing a new editorial content management system into Fairfax Media to unify digital and print production across five states and New Zealand for the first time.The project included a rigorous international examination of the market-leading systems that involved newsroom visits to the US, UK and China. The CMS chosen was the new Adobe AEM system - at that time untested in mass-scale editorial production, but now acknowledged as one of the market leaders. My role involved designing the system from the ground up, leading a multi-departmental team of editorial, product and technology staff. It also involved coordinating the training and rollout of the system across more than 700 editorial users in Australia and New Zealand over 12 months. Show less

Sydney, Australia

Coordinator of breaking news for the Sydney Morning Herald, with specific focus on digital platforms. Pioneered the introduction of live blogs into news coverage through events such as the death of Apple founder Steve Jobs. These have since become the cornerstone of breaking news coverage for Fairfax Media, forming the anchor of all local, national and international news, sport and lifestyle events.

Newsroom coordinator for launch of WAtoday.com.au, Fairfax Media's first venture into the WA media market. Responsibilities included coordinating the news agenda, homepage editing and day-to-day management of newsroom staff, including rostering.

Perth, Australia

Manager responsible for homepage content and design, supervising junior production staff and overseeing digital coverage of big events including 2008 US presidential election and death of Perth-born Hollywood film star Heath Ledger.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Perth, Australia

I covered rounds including general news, police and features. During my time as a reporter I won the WA Media Award Tourism Prize for travel writing in 2004 and the A.H. Kornweibel Arts Prize for feature writing in 2005.

Kalgoorlie, Wa

I completed a cadetship for WA Newspapers on the Kalgoorlie Miner. In this year I was awarded the Country Press Association award for best news story of the year and the Perth Press Club Country Prize for best non-metropolitan journalist across all platforms.

Bachelor Of Journalism, Journalism

Bachelor of Journalism

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Us Politics

Bachelor of Arts - Politics and History