Joined as regional correspondent at the UK and Ireland's national news agency covering South East England. Moved to main London newsroom before joining the news desk as Night Editor in 1998.

News editor on global TOP Desk team, focusing on EMEA. At the core of directing the running order and presentation of the main stories of the day across all platforms; specifically responsible for daily strategic planning and presentation of all main news coverage across EMEA, and coordinating and implementing innovative services. Edited and published content on all main TOP pages.

Managed a small team of journalists to cover all late breaking news coverage across EMEA. Delivered improvements to speed and accuracy and boosted productivity. Implemented systems to better monitor and deliver breaking news faster and introduced better news desk hand-off process.

Joined launch team in London to produce and curate the international edition of the CNN.com website. Involved writing and editing breaking news for a web audience, building stories in CMS, cutting audio, video and photos to deliver value-added content. Involved in TV production for UK political coverage.

Supervised a newsgathering operation with a rolling team of 30 editors and reporters across EMEA. Co-ordinated all news coverage, directed monitoring of all news sources, assigned stories and oversaw all copy flow. Transformed weekend coverage to make it more competitive through the introduction of editorial processes to improve speed and accuracy and deliver efficiencies.