Freelance writer

​2016 - present

 

My main projects since starting as freelance are as follows:

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Content Innovo - Since August 2020

Providing content for CI's clients - mostly special reports on IT strategy and change management. 

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Uswitch - Since July 2020

Providing content for the price comparison website's pages on insurance, mortgages, banking and other personal finance products.

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iResearch Services - Since February 2020

Report writing based on qualitative and quantitative surveys.

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OpenLedger - June 2018 - August 2019

Writer and news editor for this blockchain business consultancy and crypto-asset exchange services provider. Covered daily news items and features about cryptocurrencies, and the development of blockchain technology and its growing use cases in industry, government, healthcare and other sectors. I also commissioned reports, blogs and features for the website, helped devise promotional and search engine optimisation strategies and advised on website design.

 

Enodo Economics - June 2018 - February 2019

Writer and editor of a weekly email newsletter on Chinese economics.

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Capital.com - Jan 2017-May 2018

Writer and deputy editor for this trading platform's news website. I commissioned and wrote daily news analysis and features and covered daily news shifts writing on all financial markets, including commodities, currencies, stocks and crypto-assets. Advisor on strategy and design of the company's web offering. Here's my work.

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FX-MM - April 2016 - January 2018

I contributed large analysis pieces for business-to-business title FX-MM every month. I've written about liquidity, cyber crime, collateral management, foreign exchange and financial utilities for this publication, which folded in January 2018.

 

Ghost writing and media consultancy

I have also ghost written articles and media content for financial institutions commissioned by various media content providers, and have provided media consultancy and writing services for private clients, including development finance company PIDG.

 

 

Financial Times

​2000 - 2016

 

​Reporter and editor on the markets desk. During 16 years at the FT I wrote news stories, analysis and feature articles on most financial asset classes, including fixed income and derivatives, equity markets, commodities and foreign exchange. The growing importance of China and emerging markets was a strong theme of my time at the FT, and I was a news editor on the desk during the turbulence of the financial crisis. During my time as online markets editor I also appeared as a guest commentator on various other media, including BBC News, CNBC, Al Jazeera and on UK and US radio. As the FT developed new media strategies, I became familiar with live blogging, podcasts and in-house video. The FT has a graduate trainee programme that is much respected by its rivals, and I had great pleasure in mentoring and training many of the young journalists that were a part of this programme.

 

 

Evening Standard

​1998 - 2000

 

Features desk assistant and writer. Having completed a three-month internship on the Standard, I was taken on initially to cover the Crime in London weekly column – a brainchild of then editor Max Hastings – which was a first person interview of crime victims throughout the capital. Also during this time, I was office contact, researcher and fixer for various columnists, including Brian Sewell, Jon Ronson and Sebastian Faulks. I also worked on several projects with the comment editor James Hanning.