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Education
Sutton Grammar School for Boys
MA Natural Sciences Selwyn College, Cambridge University
MPhil Architecture and the Moving Image Hughes Hall/Cambridge University Moving Image Studio
NCTJ Newspaper Journalism with shorthand

Career
2001 Freelance journalist Time Out London
2002 Editor, Varsity, freelance journalist The Daily Telegraph
2002 (New York) Intern Time Out, intern The Village Voice, intern/booker XM Satellite Radio
2002-2003 Assistant Editor (film and nightlife) Time Out Dubai and Time Out Abu Dhabi
2003-2004 Assistant Editor Reed Business Information
2004-2005 Reporter, Property Week
2005-2006 Reporter, The Architects' Journal
2006 Arts and media correspondent, The Observer (maternity cover)
2006-2007 Freelance journalist The Sunday Telegraph, The Times, The Evening Standard,
Icon, The Art Newspaper, researcher Channel 4 Dispatches (Ken Livingstone, aired Jan 2008)
2007- Staff features writer The Independent, freelance, The New Statesman, Wonderland

Awards/Nominations
2007 Nominated, Young Journalist of the Year, British Press Awards (as freelance)
2005 Winner, Young Journalist of the Year, International Building Press (at Architects' Journal)
2005 Nominated, PPA New Business Journalist of the Year (at Architects' Journal)
2002 Winner, Cambridge Student Features Journalist of the Year (at university)

Articles
2008 Cuba: rap on the run (The New Statesman)
2008 Cambodia water shortage (The Independent)
2008 The death of Richard Davis, Los Angeles (The Independent)
2006 Death in paradise (British Virgin Islands) (The Observer)

 

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