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Greater New York City Area

As the launch editor for a new magazine product designed for the North American market, I was privileged to have the opportunity to design, staff, and launch a new digital-first operation from the ground up. Working closely with the head office in London, I directed designers and technicians, led recruitment, and conceived and built editorial workflow systems. Building on the UK New Statesman brand but developing it for a new audience was a challenge I relished, and I successfully led the new publication to its 2018 launch while simultaneously helping implement a new company-wide paywall strategy that would go on to dramatically increase global digital revenue. My strategy of focusing on high-impact literary essays, insightful analysis, and deeply-reported long-reads – both from experienced journalists and from new writers whom it was my responsibility (and joy) to find and nurture – bore fruit as our audience grew and our relationship with US readers deepened.

New York - San Francisco

With reporting stints in New York, on Capitol Hill, and in Silicon Valley, I covered breaking news as well as working on longer-term investigations and features for the US operation of The Guardian. An investigation I co-headed into US police use of “Stingray” surveillance technology led to a Senate probe which changed DoJ policy; and I anchored the paper's coverage of the Baltimore riots, the Papal visit, and the trial of Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and at the beginning of 2016 I joined the team covering the presidential election. During my time at the Guardian I developed a special reporting focus on internet subculture and was one of the early journalists covering the radicalization of “incels” and the emergence of the alt-right.

As US correspondent for the New Statesman, the UK's premier progressive politics and culture magazine, I produced a mix of on-the-ground reportage, long-form features, and political analysis. I was embedded in the battleground state of Ohio for the 2012 presidential election, where I wrote a column detailing the campaign as it played out on the ground.

London, United Kingdom

Master Of Arts - Ma, Journalism

Activities and Societies: International Fellows Program, SIPA

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