Investigative data Journalist
Sydney Morning Herald December 2017 – Present
∞ Data and investigative reporting for Sydney Morning Herald and The Age. Working with journalists on stories in many categories including health, education, transport, city planning, the environment, the economy, and politics.
∞ Research, analysis, interviews and writing for a broad audience focused on data-driven news and long-form journalism.
∞ Developing data and human sources from commercial and other sources for exclusive stories.
Data Journalist / Senior Journalist
Newslocal / Hills Shire Times / Rouse Hill Times / Hornsby Advocate October 2015 – December 2017
∞ Group reporting for Newslocal (20 community newspapers) including the NSW budget in 2014, 2015 & 2017, as well as Daily Telegraph & other group campaign-related stories.
∞ Research, interviews and writing for an online and print newspaper audience reporting on local, state and federal politics, police, transport & general news.
∞ Data journalism (one-day-a-week) for Newscorp and Newslocal including regional campaign stories/data for the Daily Telegraph and other mastheads.
∞ Developed data journalism NewsU editorial development program for NewsCorp national metro mastheads, presenting the course beginning in November 2017.
∞ Developing & adapting digital tools for wider use within Newscorp (Python scraping, Google tools like Fusion tables, Excel, Tableau, IBM Watson Analytics).
University Tutor
Sydney University August – December 2022
Journalism tutor at Sydney University
Macleay College Sydney 2018 – 2021
∞ Wrote the data journalism course for Macleay College in 2018 and was a lecturer and tutor there.
University of Technology Sydney (UTS) August 2017 – 2018
∞ Teaching two classes of UTS journalism students basic data skills including Excel, data cleaning and research plus the use of tools such as Tableau.
Senior Journalist
North Shore Times January 2015 – October 2015
∞ Political, police & senior news reporter working on a bi-weekly newspaper producing 8 – 10 news stories each week.
∞ Covered four state electorates, two federal seats and a local council.
Senior Journalist
Blacktown Advocate May 2014 – December 2014
∞ Senior reporter covering politics, sports and general news.
∞ Renamed Blacktown City to “Gougham” City (in a headline) during a debate about Gough Whitlam’s legacy.
Journalist
Hills Shire Times January 2014 – May 2014
∞ A weekly diet of restaurant reviews, peppered with breaking news, local business chamber views and police clues.
∞ Use and slight abuse of News Corp systems: Methode, News Machine, Cyber and PhotoDiary.
Journalist
Rouse Hill Times March 2013 – January 2014
∞ Political and general news reporter.
Journalist – Intern
Manly Daily November 2012 – January 2013
∞ General news reporter/intern.
Production Manager
Onion Media Group September 2011 – March 2013
∞ Production wizardry, casting talent and spellbinding pitches for several feature films.
∞ Supervised, scheduled, budgeted and assigned duties to crew for films, ads, corporate videos and documentaries.
∞ Worked within tight pants and budgets to create high-quality broadcast content.
∞ Wrote pitch documents for content or funding opportunities such as MIPCOM.
Sales Executive
Village Roadshow July 2008 – August 2011
∞ Presentations, reports, quarterly business reviews and several successful inter-office reviews of high-quality microwavable menus.
∞ Relationship management of national and local accounts in retail and rental channels for clients such as Civic Video and Quickflix. Monthly sales presentations to these clients.
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