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You can find my audio work here
You can find my video work here
Here’s everything I’ve written over the years, thanks to Muck Rack
Here are all my New Statesman pieces in one place
Below is a selection of my writing. If a piece isn’t marked with a publication, it was written during my time as a staffer at the Daily Mirror (2015-2018)
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Writing
Personal Essays
- Freelancing in the media – Representology Journal launch issue, a joint publication by Birmingham City and Cardiff universities
- How personal essays can help you win commissions – Journalism.co.uk
- Unconventional Wisdom: Grief doesn’t have five stages – The Outline
- What’s in a name? Plenty. – Zora, Medium
- This Artwork Changed My Life: Masaccio’s “Expulsion from the Garden of Eden” – Artsy.net
- The House of Tomorrow (re-published on Medium) – gal-dem magazine, UN/REST, September 2019
- The #MeAt20 challenge is trending—but I remember my twenties as a time of grief – Prospect Magazine
- In a WhatsApp group for orphans, a group of strangers helped me finally understand my grief – Prospect Magazine
- ‘How a WhatsApp group of strangers is helping me grieve’ – Marie Claire
- How WhatsApp Eased the Pain of Losing My Parents – OneZero, Medium
- The storage unit that became a portal to my childhood home – Curbed, Vox Media
- The storage unit – Cruel Summer Book Club
- After losing my parents 20 years ago, I’ve learnt that grief never truly disappears – Metro UK
- Coping with Grief – Inessa Wellness
- I Live Near One of the Most Photographed Places in the World. Here’s Why I Love It – Apartment Therapy
- I Found My Mother With This London Tube Map From 1977 – CityLab, Bloomberg
- Romford to Upminster to Romford again: An ode to Transport for London’s most obscure branch line – Citymetric
- My Hometown: Hornchurch, UK – Popula
- My Dad’s Dictator – Popula
- Growing up with a schizophrenic mother: doctors, detainment, and dealing with her death – gal-dem
- What I Learned About Career Pivots From Being Laid Off (Three Times!) – The Muse
- The 10 things I learned from speaking in public 5 times over the last year – Medium
- Looking back on a year of freelancing, via my third-person biographies – LinkedIn
On Podcasting
- Point of Entry: The Allusionist – Pod Bible
- Why Podcasters Are Turning to Crowdsourcing During the Coronavirus Lockdown – Bello Collective
- How to host a live podcast recording to grow your audience – background for 2019 Newsrewired conference workshop
- What to do before, during and after a live podcast event – write-up of my workshop, and the audio from made into a podcast
- How to create a successful podcast in five steps – 2018 Newsrewired conference talk
- How mojo thinking scored Trinity Mirror a top-shelf podcast – interview with me
- How to make a hit podcast – Next Radio conference talk (video)
- 7 reasons a freelance journalist should start a podcast – Muck Rack
- How a ‘Side Project’ Helped Me Overcome Freelance Fatigue – The Freelancer, Contently
- Splicing Stories: Shape imperfect human conversation into a podcast episode – The Writer Magazine, May 2019 (print version)
Business
All featured in print for The Times of London and online for Raconteur
- Meet the CCO: the role future-proofing business
- Closing the ethnicity pay gap
- How you can make the most of podcast advertising
- Data dealings: how social media treats people data
- Balancing data with creativity in marketing
- Having a ‘purpose’ is no longer enough
- The potential for AI in market research
- Why put learners in charge of their training?
- How the connected lab can transform drug development
- How the cloud transformed employee learning
Interviews
- Deborah Frances-White on what she’s learned about men from hosting The Guilty Feminist – Marie Claire UK
- “For civilisation, it’s a bit depressing”: Charlie Brooker on Black Mirror’s relevance – New Statesman
- Terry Waite: I Remember – Reader’s Digest Magazine (print version)
- “No one would meet my eyes”: meet the Rwandan genocide survivor who returned home to forgive her neighbours – Prospect Magazine
- “I’ve been burnt so many times”: actress Natalie Dormer on sex, lies and being misquoted – New Statesman
- “It’s perfect, just as it is”: Lauren Laverne takes the reins of Desert Island Discs – New Statesman
- Black Mirror’s Charlie Brooker on using Bandersnatch for politics: “That’s the fantasy, isn’t it?” – New Statesman
- Charlie Brooker: “Everything’s gone a bit Black Mirror – but it’s free publicity for us” – New Statesman
- From a self-fundraising MA student to award-winning chef, Zoe Adjonyoh knows being the first isn’t always easy – gal-dem
Arts / Culture / Internet / Lifestyle
- Performing comedy is an expression of power (PDF) – New Brave World report for PopChange
- Coping with sensory overload – BBC.com
- “It made me look like I was in a ransom video”: Inside the chaotic world of Zoom punditry – Prospect Magazine
- “I’m still intimidated by him”: what it’s like to be the ghostwriter behind some of pop’s greatest hits – Prospect Magazine
- Review of Wendy Liu’s non-fiction book Abolish Silicon Valley – Red Pepper magazine (in print)
- How memes became the language of the internet – Metro
- ‘Fantastic Beasts 3’ will be ‘better’ promises Warner Brothers CEO – Yahoo Movies UK
- The ‘Inside Black Mirror’ Book Contains Possible Clues About ‘Bandersnatch’ — If You Read Closely – Bustle
- 10 Black Mirror episodes that changed dramatically from script to screen – SYFY
Politics
- What Does the Rise of the Child Activist Say About Us? – GEN, Medium
- ‘Building the Wall’ is a template for theatre in the age of Trump – New Statesman
- Celebrities including Hugh Grant and Jennifer Saunders join three million others to sign petition petition to cancel Brexit – Yahoo
- 10,000 fill streets in London and around UK against President Trump’s Muslim ban
- Why are junior doctors striking? We asked them to explain
Op-eds
- 5 things I’ve learnt about the power of voice – and 3 predictions for 2019 – LinkedIn
- A combined journalism & PR degree shows how bad things are for journalists – New Statesman
- There’s one way that Black Mirror isn’t dystopian at all – in fact, it’s hopeful – Digital Spy
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Technology
- Why attempts to make sex robots “family friendly” deserve to fail – New Statesman
- LG G6 smartphone review
- 11 Gmail tips to make your life easier
- Would you let Google be your guide in Rome?
Travel
- Got 36 hours in Hong Kong?
- Best bars in Havana
- Explore the vintage charms of Cuba on a dreamy Celestyal Cruises trip
- Maldives reef resort is a true paradise both on land and underwater
- The 5 best things to do in Koh Samui
- Head to the Thai island of Koh Samui for beautiful beach bars and a green lagoon
Long reads
- I spent a month trying to spend nothing – this is what broke me
- The true story of billionaire arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi
- The betrayal and bloodshed behind the Koh-i-Noor
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Humour
- 9 people who look hugely unimpressed by Nigel Farage’s gloating in the European Parliament
- In an uncertain time, in an unpredictable world, let’s all fancy Mark Carney
- Ever thought Jurassic Park needed more running in heels?
Relationships
- Men reveal how abortion affected them
- 7 lessons learned from painful break ups
- Cougars tell all about their toyboys
Live coverage
Juvenilia – yeah, I was writing on the internet back in 2006
- Where’s the best place to buy school uniform? – The Guardian
- An Inconvenient Truth: on the blogs – The Guardian
- Vendor’s grumbles cause waves on eBay – The Guardian
- Q&A: Hosepipe bans – The Guardian (joint byline)
- Money? It’s only a Fringe benefit – The Guardian (additional reporting credit)
- Rendition: ‘Innocence and guilt are entirely subjective states’ – Netribution
- Short films: ‘An art form in themselves’ – spiked
- Inside Man: just a heist movie? – spiked
