- Reporter based in the Sheffield bureau for BBC Look North. Specialism in sport, in particular football and cycling. This has included reporting on Huddersfield Town’s pre-Premier League season training camp in the Austrian Alps.- Filming and editing my original stories using a iPhone MoJo kit, JVC ProHD camera, Final Cut Pro & iMovie. My stories also feature on the BBC News website, BBC Breakfast and the BBC News Channel.- Regular sport Reporter and Producer where I put together the news on all the major sport stories in Yorkshire. - Reporting live on BBC Look North and the BBC News Channel including on the Tour of Britain bike race.- Present Look North bulletins.- BBC School Report mentor, supporting students aged 11-16 and their teachers with the annual news day where they make TV, radio and online stories.

Editing, scripting and voicing packages and OOV ACTs on a range of sports for the BBC News Channel Sportsday programme and bulletins at Media City UK in Salford.

• Reporter and item producer based in the Sheffield bureau. This included reporting on Huddersfield Town’s pre-Premier League season training camp in the Austrian Alps.• Reporting live on BBC Look North and the BBC News Channel including on the Tour of Britain bike race.• BBC School Report mentor, supporting students aged 11-16 and their teachers with the annual news day where they make TV, radio and online stories.

Self-run business. DJing in front of up to a thousand people for a variety of commercial and private clients nationally. DJed at over 150 events

• Reporting on the Tour de France when it started in Yorkshire for BBC local radio and providing interviews with riders & team principals for BBC 5 Live during the race in France.• This role included coming up with and reporting on more than 50 original cycling-related stories for all daytime programme on BBC Radio Sheffield and providing live 2 ways for other BBC local radio stations.• In charge of devising and setting up an 8 hour all-speech outside broadcast for BBC Radio Sheffield’s coverage of Stage 2 of the Tour de France including choosing and recceing locations for 10 reporters.• Producing and co-presenting a week of Cycle Heaven evening programmes on BBC Radio Sheffield about the sport of cycling which were the most listened to programmes in BBC local radio on the iPlayer. This included a live show in front of a 100-strong audience of listeners at Sheffield Hallam University with some of the biggest names in British cycling. Another of my programmes was on the downfall of Lance Armstrong including exclusive interviews with Tour de France winner Greg LeMond; David Walsh, the journalist who exposed Armstrong as a cheat; and Jamie Burrow, his former team-mate in the US Postal Team who spoke for the first time about Armstrong’s confession of guilt.• Subsequently reporting every year at the Tour de France for 5 Live and the BBC Sport website where I interview riders, team management and British cycling fans.

• Reporting for the breakfast show on my original news stories in South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire• My stories featured on Jeremy Vine on BBC Radio 2• Assistant producing the Toby Foster Breakfast Show• Producing the Drive and Football Heaven programmes including setting up guests, writing scripts and providing original treatment and story ideas though my diverse range of contacts• Scripting and presenting sport bulletins• iPhone/iPad Lead User. In charge of training reporters on how to set up and use their iPhones/iPads for broadcasting live, sending back recorded interviews to Radioman, filming and taking photos

Selected among journalists across BBC local radio who applied to produce a 30 minute programme for Face The Facts on BBC Radio 4. I investigated the impact of the closure of the Remploy factories which provided sheltered employment for disabled people. I travelled to Wigan, Swansea and Darlington with presenter John Waite and uncovered serious concerns about the propriety of the Remploy factory sell-off programme and examined the employment prospects of the disabled ex Remploy staff. My programme was broadcast on 15th May 2013 and the issue was raised at PMQs on the same day. My story was previewed on the You & Yours programme and I provided audio and illustrated 2 ways for 15 breakfast and mid morning BBC local radio programmes. I wrote an in-depth feature for the BBC News website on my investigation which was featured prominently on the UK homepage. I have gone on to do paid work at You & Yours for my original stories including on the DVLA and the MOD.

• Bringing in original stories, setting up guests, scripting cues and briefing presenters• Assisting editor while programme on air: chasing breaking news stories, editing audio for the opening hour sequence, selecting listeners who text in to put on the programme

• Output editing and day producing the breakfast and drivetime shows• Reporting live from the radio car and making packages for the breakfast show• Live sports reporting on league football matches

• Producing Calendar news bulletins covering Yorkshire and Lincolnshire: writing scripts, editing pictures, deciding programme content and running order and output producing in the gallery• Reporting for the 6pm flagship programme• Acting as Planning Editor and Assistant Programme Editor, producing 12 minutes of the main programme

• Based at ITV Meridian in Southampton and trained at ITV newsrooms across the UK by leading journalists and media lawyers• I learnt to: write scripts, edit pictures, report live, self-shoot stories, present and produce news programmes, advance knowledge of media law and editorial judgement• Presenting and programme editing 2 x 30 minute ITV trainee programmes

- Scripting and presenting news bulletins at Three Counties and Mix 96, a commercial station in Bucks.- Day producing Rocker Radio on Three Counties, the only programme for gypsies and the travelling community in the UK.

Freelance day producer and reporter for the breakfast show, summer 2008. Live reporter on football and rugby matches and Broadcast Assistant on each of the station’s daytime shows, 2004 to 2008.- Breaking exclusive cross platform stories through my contacts one of which was lead story on the Education section of www.bbc.co.uk/news.- Live football commentating from Craven Cottage and Loftus Road.- Self-shooting Oxford United matches for BBC South Today.- Assistant producing Radio Oxford’s weekly sports show during my time at university in Sheffield.

The sole representative of the student body on a range of the most senior University decision-making committees chaired by Pro Vice Chancellors.Conceiving and managing £30,000 construction of the Media Hub, a multi-media newsroom where student media teams work collaboratively across platforms; the first of its kind at any students’ union in the UK.