I’ve been working in digital since 2008… before it was cool and before it was a thing. This stretches from two-person local newsrooms to some of the biggest international players including Al Jazeera, BBC and Unicef. Some of the things I do include:

• Leading and managing teams through empowerment and empathy

• Digital strategy, growth and development (analytics/data, AI, all things social, audience, editorial and content)

• Presenting and facilitating

• Training and consulting

• Judging/award panels

• Mentoring

This work took me to 18 countries in 2018 alone, and I’ve worked/lived in seven, including working with:

• Al Jazeera Media Network (Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera Turk) in Qatar and Turkey

• BBC News, BBC World Service and BBC Media Action (UK and remote)

• Canva (Australia)

• Changer Studios (YouTube channel and creator accelerator) (Australia)

• Constructive Institute (Denmark, Norway, Sweden)

• CrowdTangle (a now sadly defunct Facebook/META product).

• Facebook (India)

• Freedom House

• Centre for Excellence in Journalism along with Northwestern University, (Pakistan)

• International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) (Sri Lanka)

• Thomson Reuters Foundation (TRF) (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine)

• Media24 (South Africa)

• M4Asia on behalf of the French Foreign Ministry (Indonesia)

• US State Department (Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova and Turkey)
  

Links to my work:

Presenting

• Showreel

• What Facebook matters and what you need to know about digital (Reuters Institute, University of Oxford)

• Various talks at the International Journalism Festival

• Web Analytics, the basics (BBC)

• Web Analytics key terms - the jargon buster (BBC)

• How web analytics informs online journalism (BBC)

Interviews

• Metrics that matter (Global Editors Network)

• The future of news is not what you think, and no you might not be getting ready for it in the right way (Global Editors Network)

• How Newsrooms Find Digital Identity (NewsWhip)

• Talking Digital Transformation, Leadership and the Changing Media Landscape with Minter Dial

Writings

• How Turkey Uses Social Media, (Reuters Institute Digital News Report, 2015)

• Turkey’s relationship with social media: “it’s complicated” (BBC, 2015)

• Amid grief and rage in Türkiye, community spirit shines through (SBS, 2023)

Editing

• The Legal Studies Reader

Awards

• Leading Australian national publisher/broadcaster SBS to Most Trusted News Brand (2024) in the Reuters Digital News Report for the first time ever.

• International News Media Association (INMA) Award (2023) for Transforming Editorial and Content Strategy using an Audience user needs data approach. If the member wall stops you, the entry is duplicated here

Fun fact:

One day BBC publicity asked if they could take some press pics of me. Sure I said. Little did I know that it was to become the face of an internal BBC campaign, displayed in every BBC office worldwide. I’ve been a poster child for former design leader Idean too, and appeared in several ads for the Doha Film Institute, including this beauty (these were borrowed lenses, which were so thick, I couldn’t see through them).