JESSY
EDWARDS
Journalist, Video and Audio Producer
About Me
I'm an award-winning news reporter audio/video producer with experience writing, editing and producing for top international news outlets including NBC, Rolling Stone, CNBC, BBC and Fairfax Media.
Specialties: Breaking news, feature writing, video production and editing, podcast production, digital strategy, product development, digital innovation, web production.
Work Experience
FREELANCE BUSINESS/TECH REPORTER
Various news outlets | May 2016 - ongoing
Writing business, tech and society stories for various international media outlets including Rolling Stone, BBC, Vice Media, CNBC, NZ Marketing Magazine, Idealog, StopPress, The Spinoff, Complex Media
- Features include: How an emoji gets accepted into the global lexicon, a story on the first city in NZ to get gig-speed internet, why an Australian megachurch is a quiet giant in the global music industry, artists finding refuge in Colombia during COVID-19, an investigation into a company trying to regulate the cleaning industry in
Singapore
- Broke a story for the BBC on how businesses could use Facebook tools to discriminate against certain demographics in ads
MULTIMEDIA REPORTER
NBC New York | Sept. 2016 - current
Reporting, writing, producing and editing local stories for the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut audience. Specialty areas include employment and housing.
- Storytelling for NBC New York across multiple platforms -- written, video and audio/podcast
- Coming up with editorial project and product ideas and executing them. Examples include 6-part podcast series on public housing in NYC, a digital documentary on the medical debate around Lyme disease.
- Executive producer of award-winning weekly podcast 'The Debrief,' a deep dive into NYC's biggest stories
- Managing 3 production/editorial interns and 1 full-time reporter. Commissioning and editing their stories.
- Run WNBC Instagram account (150k+ followers)
- Mining social media for stories, sources
MULTIMEDIA REPORTER
Fairfax Media | Apr. 2015 - Apr. 2016
Writing news and features for New Zealand's largest daily news website and daily newspaper
- First at the media company to pitch and write about Uber's entry into NZ, broke major business/tech stories in the New Zealand market
REPORTER/PRODUCER
CNBC | Jan. 2015 - Apr. 2015
Short-term media scholarship working in television video production for CNBC Asia. Reporting daily business news for the CNBC website.
Education
2019 / JUNE
Yale University, Connecticut
Yale Writers' Workshop, Summer 2019
2014 / MAY
Massey University, New Zealand
Postgraduate diploma, journalism
2009 / JAN
Victoria University, New Zealand
Bachelor of Arts, English Literature and History
