Journalism
Contact me to commission a thoughtful, intelligent and balanced story.
I have more than five years experience as a freelance journalist. I’m best at writing in-depth features and interviews. And I’ve got a great instinct for a compelling story and the quirky details and personalities that really bring stories to life.
I have a wide range of interests including travel, environmental architecture, the media, social history, literature and digital communication. See a complete list of my special interests here
.I am also editor of the Media Society newsletter and a council member of the Media Society.
Find out about some of the articles I’ve written:
Guardian travel section:
Super Green European Breaks
This was a feature about an ecological holiday home in Normandy. This is also being published in a Guardian book about ecological holidays in January 2009.
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BBC Who do you think you are magazine:
Suffer the little children
This was an in-depth feature of more than 2,000 words about Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital. I also wrote a book about the history of the hospital. Buy a copy now – proceeds from the sale of the book benefit the hospital charity.
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The Architects’ Journal:
Earth Mover
This was a UK exclusive interview of maverick American architect and inventor of earthships, Mike Reynolds. My interview with Reynolds in 2003 sparked my interest in earthships and four years later I co-wrote a book about them with the project manager of Earthship Brighton, Mischa Hewitt.
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Grand Designs magazine
Building with the eagles
I travelled around Europe with Channel 4 as they filmed the series Grand Designs Abroad. This article focuses on one of the projects covered in that series, near Malaga in Spain. I also co-wrote the book to accompany the series with TV presenter Kevin McCloud.
