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
Awards
2019 Outstanding Podcast Award
'The Debrief' - Executive Producer
NY State Broadcasters Association
2018 Digital Innovation Award for Best Video Strategy
NBC 4 New York 'Listen Up' Instagram Story
Local Media Association
2018 Best Breaking News Coverage Emmy
Digital Production during 'Hospital Shooting Rampage' of 2017
New York Emmy Awards
2018 Best Multimedia Reporting and Presentation
'Lyme Wars' digital documentary - executive producer
Society of Silurians
2018 Outstanding Use of Digital Platforms
Digital Video Production, NBCNewYork.com
NY State Broadcasters Association
2017 Best News Reporter, Junior - Nominee
Nominated as Best Junior Reporter at the 2017 NZ media awards
Canon New Zealand Media Awards