Portfolio

Experience

Yahoo! – Entertainment News Editor – October 2023 - December 2025

• Managing, editing and commissioning freelance staff across all rota patterns, this includes training staff. 

• Coming up with traffic-driving feature ideas, with a focus on high dwell time. Track record of increasing website traffic.

• Interviews through cold calling and contacts, including: Robbie Williams, Kate Garraway, Amanda Holden and more.

HELLO! Magazine – (Mat cover) Acting Premium Content Editor July 2022- September 2023

• Securing exclusives for HELLO! including booking celebrity talent and special digital issues as well as arranging shoots.

• I secured the first time Prince Harry and Meghan worked with HELLO! Q&A features include Kate Moss, Elizabeth Hurley, and more.

• Managing the third annual Kind List, including special nominations for the first time for HELLO! from Prince Harry and Meghan, Steve Irwin's daughter Bindi Irwin, and more. Apple News picked up the HELLO! Kind List from the website for the first time and gave it a special box and the Kind List featured top of their newsletter.

• It featured across eight pages in the magazine and on a segment of Trisha Goddard's show on World Kindness Day.

• Created Breast Cancer Awareness Month digital issue in tribute for Olivia Newton-John featuring exclusives with Olivia's family, Dolly Parton, Cliff Richard and more.

Evening Standard – Assistant News Editor – June 2021-July 2022

• Managing journalists on the day-to-day running of the News desk, running the homepage and track record of increasing traffic.

• Commissioning and creating the list of traffic-driving stories for the team. Running the paper conference where I put forward the team’s ideas for the next day's Evening Standard.

• Exciting time to be on news desk including Boris Johnson’s resignation and Downing Street parties.

Daily Mirror: Mirror Online Senior Showbiz Reporter – Editing on nights and weekends, August 2019-June 2021

• In my last appraisal, it was noted I am an “outstanding” senior in The Mirror team for enthusiasm, inspiring and training. 

• Using analytics to drive ideas list.

• Managing a team for night shifts and weekends successfully on a budget. Deputising for editors on the day shift team while they are in meetings or sick.

• The Mirror flew me to Mallorca to get exclusives and made money on my trip by selling my content to the MailOnline and The Sun.

• Interviewing on camera front of house at The Mirror’s Pride of Britain  (POB) red carpet. For the 2020 event, I was elected to manage the coverage including interviews with Susanna Reid and Love Island winner Paige Turley.

Daily Mail: MailOnline Showbiz Reporter, March 2017-August 2019

• Writing and representing the biggest newspaper website in the world. 

• Working under pressure for fashion and award shows as well as TV coverage and interviewing reality stars.

• Representing MailOnline at events from reviewing a celeb hotspot hotel in Greece, interviewing TOWIE stars at the launch, to a party at the Celtic Manor Resort.

• Managing the MailOnline sidebar, editing the Showbiz page at the weekends.

Daily Star Online: News Reporter, May 2016-February 2017

• Track record for writing exclusives of global interest on a weekly basis, with my best bringing in 4.7million hits.

• My original stories were picked up by newspapers (The Sun, The Mirror and The Daily Mail) and American news sites (including Fox News and The New York Post).

• My exclusive on sex robots being ‘mind-blowing’ in bed was top of the website with 4.7million hits.

• Other exclusives I personally sourced achieved 2.76million, 1million and 237K hits.

Work experience placements

• Guardian's Books desk, March 2016 Pitching ideas, writing features and editing reviews as well as attending events.

• Country Living magazine, February 2016 Coming up with feature ideas in meetings, researching and writing articles.

• We Love Sunday magazine, September 2015-January 2016 Writing articles. My 'How to keep spiders out of your home' story was one of the most read on The Mirror website over the weekend it was published.

• Country and Townhouse, November 2015 Sent out to see Exhibition on Screen’s Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood.

• Landlove magazine, August-December 2015 Pitching ideas and setting up interviews LandLove on freelance basis.

• The Daily Telegraph: Working on the News Desk, 2014 I knew I wanted to be a journalist when I got my first front page byline. Health editor Lauren Donnelly wrote the expose article after I helped her carry out research on food outlets in NHS hospitals.

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