News editor and producer

In my decade in journalism, from local radio to the heart of BBC News in London, I’ve learned how to find and tell stories that matter. Here's some of what I’ve created as an editor and producer at BBC News.

Programme editor, BBC World News

Alongside my presenting work, I spent four thrilling years in the control room at BBC World News in London. I was in the chair when the UK Prime Minister was hospitalised with Covid-19, when a fire tore through Notre Dame Cathedral, as well as for countless other breaking news stories. I’m especially proud of the work produced by the team I led in the hours after the Beirut port explosion. Other highlights were pivotal moments in the Brexit process, and the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue operation in Thailand.

Editor and producer, Outside Source

I worked for years as a producer, and later editor of Outside Source, BBC News’ most distinctive and innovative programme. The show tells stories with diverse media, an informal tone, and crystal-clear language. I helped develop the show’s very successful ‘Ros Atkins on…’ videos, which are now featured prominently across BBC News, and generate huge social media engagement. The videos grew out of our story sequences on the pre-Covid Outside Source touchscreen. Here’s one I produced on press freedom in Brazil, and the harassment of a female journalist by the country’s President.

Story producer, BBC World News

Before my editing and outputting roles, I was a story producer: booking guests, writing scripts, and finding stories. I also worked across the United States after being selected for a posting in our Washington bureau. One TV piece I originated and produced there remains close to my heart: the families caught in Trump administration’s refugee admissions clampdown. I also wrote about it for the BBC News website. You can read it here.

Digital story producer, BBC World News

I’ve produced digital stories too, like this one about a feminist Wikipedia “edit-a-thon” at a museum in Washington DC. Aimed at the younger, mobile-first US audience, it did very well on Instagram, and got 200,000 views on Apple News - the most watched video that week.

BBC local radio

My first ever shifts at the BBC saw me driving around the Cornish countryside in a branded 4x4, interviewing all sorts of people. As I drove from place to place, with my recording kit on the passenger seat, I knew I was going to love working as a journalist; and it’s in local radio where I learned my trade. The radio package here - about flower producers providing Lily of the Valley for the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in 2011, is the first ever story of mine to go to air.