Hello.

My career in the media began in the UK when I joined my local hospital radio station.

In my mid-twenties I landed a job in the newsroom of my local weekly, and it wasn’t long before I rose to senior journalist, section editor, chief sub editor, and deputy editor responsible for 14 regional newspapers (distribution one million copies).

I worked as a freelance researcher / journalist for Private Eye magazine, was a stringer for News of the World, Daily Mirror, Thames News TV, and worked in the newsrooms of both BBC Essex and Essex Radio.

Prior to leaving the UK for New Zealand in 2000 I was managing editor at a contract publishing house in London.

Having arrived at The New Zealand Herald I was first chief sub editor of its daily business section, and then – during the course of seven years – travel editor, careers section editor, and left as managing editor commercial publications.

What followed was a long period of freelancing where I wrote for dozens of consumer and B2B magazines, mainly reporting on business and employment, and I managed a range of popular titles covering investing, photography, and engineering. I was also the editor of Herald Homes for five years until mid 2019.

I recorded my first podcast in 2008 about the weekly ups and downs of the New Zealand sharemarket, and went on to front the Podcasting Made Easy podcast – I wrote the popular self-help book of the same name.

I currently live in Australia, and in my spare time volunteer at my local community radio station, and record the syndicated Just Jazz radio show.