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Newsletters

A set of three sample newsletters are arrayed at odd angles in a single image to demonstrate the variety of content included in each edition.

In 2023, I launched BBC Studio’s international technology newsletter, Tech Decoded. Each edition included news writing and analysis from me, and I commissioned and edited features for each one too. You can read the blurb for the project here or check out a few of the 100+ past editions below.


Writing

An oddity of working at BBC News is that for most of my decade here, there was a policy of not placing bylines on daily general news stories. I have hundreds – if not thousands – of stories to my name, with pageviews counted in hundreds of millions. Most, however, don’t have my name on them. Below you’ll find some of the handful that do.


Broadcast

As a specialist technology reporter on the daily news desk, I’d write two or three stories a day for online, and then offer those stories to broadcast as needed. That meant a little bit of on-camera stuff and a lot of radio – most often as live reporter two-ways explaining a story to large audiences on BBC Radio 4 or to the World Service.

I was also a regular co-host or presenter’s friend on our weekly radio programme Tech Tent (largely recorded from home during Covid), and occasionally contributed to national news bulletins and other radio programmes.

On-camera
Microsoft Flight Sim 2020: Earth’s digital twin
Pixel 6: Hands-on with Google’s ‘magic eraser’ phone

Radio
Programmes

World Business Report: Can you trademark a shape?

Tech Tent on BBC World Service:

WhatsApp and YouTube act on Covid conspiracies

Tech firms boosted by Covid-19

Legal victory over facial recognition

Students marked down by algorithm

The Tech Quiz of the year 2020

Facebook blocks Australia’s news

Ad cookies facing the crunch

Antivirus pioneer John McAfee found dead

Intel’s road ahead

Facebook’s punishing week

Tech for future living

Quiz of the year 2021

Bulletins


Special projects

Over the course of a decade, I’ve been involved in plenty of special projects at the BBC, including:

  • The redesign and relaunch of the morning daily newsletter, as part of a two-man editorial team in new formats
  • Fact-checking politics for the UK 2019 election with the Reality Check team (now BBC Verify) – including sending a midnight single-authored briefing to the entire BBC political staff assessing the truth of claims in the Conservative manifesto
  • Testing new tech from BBC News Labs from chatbots to audio visualisations
  • Working with the visual journalism team on graphics, mapping, data crunching and animation