Experience

Assistant Editor

Manage 12 local teams across the UK, as well as helping train editors, commission content, and edit articles.
Write content for The Tab's national site, focusing on entertainment news and features, as well as pop culture, trends and TV.
Use SEO to further promote local and national content.
Assist and advise local editors on legal issues, as well as working with the legal team on more nuanced legal situations.
Pitching national and local stories in daily meetings.
Analysing the site's and authors' statistics via Parsely to better keep track of goals and see where viewership growth can be optimised.
Train and educate teams on dealing with legal issues, how to find scoops, and how to best help their writers.
Liaise with PR companies for useful and relevant content, both for national and local.
Approach companies and individuals for comment and clarification.
Create TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook content to promote stories and keep followers engaged.
Use Content Management Systems (CMS), such as WordPress.

Wrote news bulletins for Heart, Capital and Smooth output in the West Midlands.
Interviewed contributors in person and via Zoom.
Attended events and went on location to find stories, vox pop, and speak to contributors.
Used Burli to write bulletins, edit clips, and embed audio.
Used Burli's PA channel and redeveloped these stories to work for commercial radio.
Used a range of microphones and recording devices to optimise sound quality.

Ran a team of 45 writers, commissioning, editing, and writing news content which covered Cardiff and the rest of Wales.
Had a strong focus on scoops and breaking news, writing original stories that were picked up by numerous organisations such as The Times, The Sun, The Guardian, and Daily Mail.
Featured on TalkTV's breakfast show, to be interviewed about an original scoop.
Covered topics such as university news, pop culture, sport, politics and court stories.
Left this role as was promoted to the Assistant Editor position at The Tab HQ.

Wrote articles to be shared across Cardiff University's newsletters and on its website, focusing on wellbeing, safety, and support.
Covered topics such as violence against women, how to cope with stress, and how to report assaults or abuse whilst in higher education.
Attended events to speak to charities and organisations dealing with women's safety and violence.

Covered South Wales, creating content for TV, radio, and digital platforms.
For digital, wrote articles for the website, went to location to capture videos for stories, and created and edited TikTok and Instagram content.
For TV, presented the lunchtime news, took part in two ways, and partook in lives outside the Senedd.
For radio, presented the hourly news, interviewed contributors, attended press conferences including for the Welsh Rugby Union.
Used Burli, Abode Rush, Adobe Audition, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Avid.
Specialised in sports journalism, writing live blogs for football, snooker, and boxing.
Worked with Google Analytics and Google Trends to follow popular topics and analyse stories' performance.
Trained in Data Journalism, and in how to use a Panasonic CX350.

Worked under The Cardiff Tab's News Editor, covering crime, coronavirus, politics, and student news.
Was promoted to News Editor from this role in 2022.