I’m 25. Journalist. Blogger. Online enthusiast. Currently working for Trinity Mirror Regionals division at Canary Wharf. Overseeing all things multimedia across out portfolio of sites – ranging from the Liverpool Echo to the Hounslow Chronicle.
Previously I was based in Cardiff, Wales, as online communities editor with Media Wales. I worked across Wales Online, South Wales Echo and the Western Mail. I primarily worked on the community website, yourCardiff.
I graduated from UCLan (University of Central Lancashire School of Journalism) in 2007 with a BA (Hons) in Journalism.
I founded and run a hyperlocal community journalism blog for where I lived: Preston, Lancashire. It’s called Blog Preston. In 2011 it was named as the best hyperlocal website in the UK by the lovely people at Talk About Local in their ‘Unawards’. In February of the same year we were also part of a successful bid for Nesta money to train community reporters.
In 2010 I was named as one of the leading innovators in journalism by journalism.co.uk in their J-list, described as: “a great example of a young journalist not afraid to carve out his own niche.”
My blog has also been ranked 7th by Fleet Street Blues in their Top 10 UK Journalism Blogs, they very kindly said: “it’s rare to find a journalist who can put a solid day’s work in as a local news reporter – print, video, online, whatever’s required – who then still has something intelligent to say about journalism at the end of it all.”
I am a member of the Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists blog ring hosted by journalism.co.uk. I blogged occasionally about a topic selected. The members are all journalists (in some capacity) under the age of 30.
I’ve also spoken at media/journalism conferences, including News:Rewired, about building online communities, NCTJ Skills Conference, about ‘converged journalism‘, and for the National Union of Journalists, about multimedia journalism. I also flew out to Perugia, Italy to speak at the International Journalism Festival in April 2011 about community engagement in local news. You can read my post on the topic here. All my coverage of the festival is here.
Away from the media, I was a trustee of Mencap Liverpool, with a specific interest in improving their web presence and communications.
In my spare time I enjoy live music, real ale, fell walking, swimming and driving ridiculous amounts of miles on motorways. I also have a Tumblr which I use as a dumping ground for random (good) stuff I find on the web.
The views on this blog are my own, and not those of my employer Trinity Mirror.
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