Managing a team of journalists in the BBC's Singapore bureau - deciding how to cover news in China and the rest of the region in a way that engages readers and attracts more people in Asia to the BBC News website and app while also serving readers in the US, UK and elsewhere. I've also been rebuilding the team here and helping reconfigure how online works with the rest of the BBC so we make the most of our resources and deliver coverage with real impact

Senior journalist covering global news for the BBC News website: news editing - deciding what to cover and how to cover it - along with writing major breaking stories and sub-editing other writers' work

Covering news from around the world for BBC News online

Freelance broadcast journalist at BBC World News

Radio journalist at the now defunct Voice of Russia radio in London, producing the day's coverage, making radio news and feature packages, hosting debates and taking photos and video for the website. Main areas of focus included the Middle East, China and international politics in general

Freelance journalist, editor and photographer in China, Myanmar and Thailand, writing for publications including The National in Abu Dhabi, IPS News and IRIN, a web-based humanitarian news agency run by the UN. Major topics included UN climate change negotiations in Bangkok, civil society in China and the Chinese internet. While in Beijing I worked as a reporter at the Blue Ocean Network, a Beijing-based English-language satellite TV station, where I appeared on camera, carried out interviews, wrote scripts and edited video. Also worked as an editor for the Global Times, an English-language newspaper.

While in Beijing I worked as a reporter at the Blue Ocean Network, a Beijing-based English-language satellite TV station, where I appeared on camera, carried out interviews, wrote scripts and edited video.

Staff reporter at The National in Abu Dhabi, covering domestic UAE issues including security and the drive to get more Emiratis into work. Launched the newspaper’s Twitter feed.

Freelance journalist and photographer in China, covering the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games for The National.

Launched coverage of Israel/Palestine for IRIN - irinnews.org - a humanitarian news website run by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), which is part of the UN. The work involved reporting on the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah conflict and subsequent emergencies and managing a team of journalists spread across Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

Freelance journalist in Israel/Palestine, providing stories for the Al Jazeera English-language website and Emirates Today, a daily newspaper in Dubai, UAE (since relaunched as Emirates 24/7).

Staff reporter at Emirates Today, a daily newspaper published in Dubai, UAE, since relaunched as Emirates 24/7.

Freelance journalist based in Damascus, Syria, contributing to publications including the Christian Science Monitor in the US, IRIN, a humanitarian news website run by the UN, and the Catholic Herald in the UK.

Shift work at The Mail on Sunday, a national newspaper in the UK.

Shift work at the Daily Express, a national newspaper in the UK.

Staff reporter at National News, a London-based press agency, reporting breaking news all over the capital.

Staff reporter at the Hendon & Finchley Times, a local newspaper. Covered everything that went on in this multicultural corner of northwest London and received the ‘story of the year’ award for identifying a bombmaker who blew himself up.

Short period of reporting at this daily-updated financial news website after the monthly magazine I previously worked at at Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC was discontinued.

Staff reporter at eVantage, a monthly magazine focussing on internet business. The title was discontinued in February 2001.