Factual and specialist factual producer, journalist and storyteller with many years of experience originating, developing, pitching, creating and outputting high-profile BBC content for Radio 4, the World Service, 6 Music, and digital - daily, weekly, long-term and documentary.Available now for current affairs, specialist factual and factual TV journalism, documentary and podcast development and production roles. **please see CV for full info**. Development relevant background writing about the media landscape for BBC Strategy, and in brand strategy, audience research and creative ideas development.· Highly experienced constantly and successfully conceiving, pitching, researching, developing, casting, making, and editing audience-first factual ideas, across formats, genres, programmes, and platforms - daily, weekly and long-term, incl full programmes and winning long-form commissions – and using full knowledge of editorial guidelines and media law.
· Current affairs, social issues, social justice, equalities, human rights, sensitive and human stories, politics, popular music, arts, culture, and other areas.
· Producer of Radio 4 daily flagships Woman’s Hour and Front Row, plus The Media Show, The Cultural Frontline, Outlook, Any Answers, 6 Music special content, and more.
· TV/radio and cross network collaborations, including with 5 Live, Radio 1, 6 Music, and BBC Music.
· Video
trained - Sony FX6 camera, Final Cut, TV long-form storytelling, social media shorts. Strong picture composition and visual skills. DSLR photography.
Profile
Freelance production & development: factual TV, documentaries & podcasts - from current affairs to culture.
A highly experienced factual producer, journalist & storyteller: of BBC Radio 4 & World Service flagship programmes, content, podcasts and digital - Woman’s Hour, Front Row, The Media Show, Documentaries & more - plus 6 Music special content.
Highly versatile, I’ve produced countless interviews, discussions & editions, spanning: current affairs, politics, social issues, equalities, human stories, arts, popular music, women, international & others, plus content shared across platforms - audio, digital, events & TV.
Creative, innovative & passionate about stories, I conceive and develop ideas daily and weekly, and source the strongest speakers - from human stories to the high-profile, experts & stars. I have won long-form commissions; worked in documentaries; shape, write & edit engaging narratives; apply editorial guidelines & media law; seek new approaches; and bring video & visual skills.
A strategic thinker, I’ve written for BBC Strategy - on the media, audiences & digital; worked in strategy, research & creative workshopping for top brands; and used content to reach new, young & diverse audiences - for Radio 4 & 6 Music, and via 5Live, Radio 1, 6 Music and BBC Music collaborations.
SKILLS · · - Undertake all aspects of producing: many roles in one, across ideas, development, creation, logistics, directing studios &compliance.·
- Multi-format: recorded; live; programmes; podcasts; interviews; discussions; location recording; commissioning; series; events.·
- Creative idea generation & development, tuned into social media, culture, trends & audiences, incl young, diverse and cross-uk.·
- Fast, skilled audio editor to tight deadlines, who learns new tech easily.·
- Skilled, accurate writer: structures, scripts, questions, briefs, articles, copy, ideas, social media, press info, copy editing, tone.
- Strong editorial judgement, with full use of editorial guidelines, compliance, law, regulations, copyright, safeguarding etc
- Source, cast, secure/book, interview & produce strong contributors, daily & weekly: experts, leaders, personal stories, high-profile names & music stars. Great empathy with new & vulnerable speakers. Booked and/or produced a roll call of huge names.·
- Produce and brief high-profile presenters, journalists and contributors of varied experience.·
- Digital: web; podcasts; social media; photography; writing; copy, audio, photo editing; UGC; CMS; SEO; data; etc.·
- Film/Video: BBC formal training, recently: FX6 TV camera; iphone shorts; Final Cut; TV longform storytelling. Strong visual eye, A*Art.·
- Self-starting independent producer, live/lead studio output producer, team member & collaborator.·
- Highly organised & work calmly, at pace, to tight deadlines, with accuracy, initiative & decisiveness, across subjects & projects.· - Committed to all equalities, incl UK wide: from studies, as a subject specialism, in casting and ideas, and with lived experience.·
- Strategic thinker, interested in development, content strategy, podcasting, TV, video, audience-first, digital-first & multiplatform.
EDUCATION & TRAINING
- University of Edinburgh: 1st Class Hons. Incl statistics & sociology. 1st prize dissertation: gender equalities - theory, policy & practice.·
- Data analysis short courses via UCL and Imperial College London Business School.·
- BBC training: editorial guidelines, compliance, law, health & safety, copyright, impartiality, safeguarding & child protection etc.
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