Researcher / report-writer

I have researched, authored and co-authored reports on:
- How the internet and connected technologies impact on human rights: Cameras Everywhere (with co-authors Sam Gregory, Yvette Alberdingk-Thijm, Bryan Nunez, WITNESS, 2011, pdf)
- The internet’s impact on coverage of the wider world in UK public service broadcasting: Reflecting the Real World 2 (with a chapter from Prof Stephen Coleman and Dr Myria Georgiou, IBT, 2007, pdf)
- The internet’s impact on local radio journalism in Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia: Local Radio in the Information Society (with co-author Francesca Silvani, Panos/SDC, 2005, pdf)
- Local radio’s appetite for global stories on local topics: Audio and the internet in Eastern Africa (contributed research to chapter by Francesca Silvani, FAO, 2002, pdf)

Interviews / expert contributions

- on changes in the news, journalism and information landscape, in The Economist (2011)
- on technology and human rights, in The Financial Times (2011)   |   For a MobileActive/USAID report (pdf)   |   For an internal Nokia report on ‘phon-tography’
- on WITNESS and the Hub by Loic Le Meur   |   At Etech 2009 #1, #2, #3   |   At GFMD in Athens (2008)   |    In PRINT Magazine   |   On MSNBC   |   For the State Department website   |   For PBS Mediashift   |   On Rocketboom   |   By Prof Molly Land in the Harvard Human Rights Journal
- as a jury or selection panel member on the Amnesty UK Media Awards 2011   |   Knight Foundation Community Information Challenge 2010   |   BAVC Producers Institute 2009   |   One World Media Awards 2007   |   We Media Game Changer Awards 2007

Journalist / blogger / curator / editor

In 2006, I worked with WITNESS, the New York-based human rights organisation co-founded by Peter Gabriel, and the international blogging network Global Voices Online to write and edit a blog about the emerging phenomenon of citizen-filmed human rights video around the world (it won a One World Media Award in 2007). In 2007 I joined WITNESS full-time to manage a human rights video-sharing platform called the Hub. As well as overseeing the editorial direction of the Hub, I wrote for and edited the Hub blog, and then a separate WITNESS blog. In mid-2010 I co-wrote a series of posts for YouTube and the WITNESS blog about human rights video in the digital age with Steve Grove, Director of News and Politics at YouTube, and in 2009 I curated a Human Rights Week for the online anthropology project In Media Res..

Between 2001 and 2006, I worked in the UK for Panos London, working with developing world partners to devise and manage journalism and media development projects, like AfricaVox (bringing 7 African journalists to cover the 2005 G8 meetings for UK and African media), for which I conceived and edited the blog.

I also retain an interest in cultural journalism – in the early 2000s I wrote a series of reviews and profiles for UK film website and magazine Kamera, and in 2010 interviewed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips for Brooklyn’s BOMB Magazine.