SELECTED PROJECTS
I work with organisations and individuals facing capability, learning, and communication challenges, helping them turn strategy into practical programmes, tools and ways of working. My work spans AI adoption, media innovation, stakeholder communications, and social impact and research communication — from initial analysis and design through delivery and implementation. I also work with individuals. Explore selected examples below. To discuss a project, DM me on LinkedIn or email me using this form.
Learning & Capability Design
I help organisations identify capability needs, then design practical strategies, programmes and learning frameworks to address them. My work includes needs analysis, programme architecture, curriculum design, stakeholder engagement and strategic communications for internal and external stakeholders.
University of Wollongong: Led establishment of UOW Academy, a new centralised learning and organisational development function supporting academic and professional staff across the university. Designed operating model, Theory of Change, governance framework, and enterprise learning framework providing a coherent learner experience while responding to distinct academic and professional staff needs. Established priority programs on leadership, performance, mandatory training, and AI for research. Developed strategic narrative and communications framework for executive, stakeholder and learner engagement. (2026).
Nine Publishing, Australia: Designed and launched Nine Publishing Academy, an in-house program at Australia’s largest locally-owned media organisation, to build skills and streamline processes at the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Times, and WA Today. Skills include AI for multimedia workflow, digital production to attract and retain subscribers, multimedia newsgathering, and video journalism. I also served as a GenAI Champion, supporting enterprise-wide AI innovation and skills acquisition (2025-26).
Global Forum for Media Development, Belgium: Strategic communications consultancy to strengthen communications with internal and external stakeholders, redesign web wireframe for web refresh, realign social media strategy with business goals (2022).
Intermedia Group, Australia: Research consultancy to review 34 B2B and B2C websites and social media platforms, identify staff learning gaps, design and run social media strategy and multimedia training (2022).
Magenta Consulting, South Asia: Research consultancy to support UNICEF South Asia to transition workplace culture and communications strategy from “C4D” to “social and behavioural change” (2022).
International Foundation for Electoral Systems, South East Asia: Research consultancy, ‘Strategic analysis of media literacy programming trends’, to improve IFES ability to bid for competitive programming. (2021).
New York University, USA: Personal branding and social media strategy training for Centre for International Communication (CIC) staff (2021).
International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Mekong: Research consultancy, ‘Strengthening Digital Media Literacy in the Mekong Region’, to inform design of Media Literacy Training of Trainers for social impact NGOs from Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam (2021).
University of South Wales, UK: Research and design of new post-graduate curricula combining journalism and PR skills to boost graduate employment opportunities (2020).
International Media Support, Denmark: Consultant advisor to global staff meeting in Copenhagen to help IMS develop its new 3-year strategy to support journalism innovation and sustainability worldwide (2019).
Oxfam: Designed and ran leadership & strategic communications training for 23 emerging leaders from Pacific Island NGOs (2018).
Consultancy to support 3-Year Strategy for International Media Support, Denmark
Design and management of Scholarship programs for the Walkley Foundation, Australia
Media Innovation and Development
I work with funders and media organisations to strengthen editorial capability, audience engagement, digital products, revenue approaches and newsroom workflows. My projects span organisational development, training, mentoring and innovation programmes across established and emerging media markets.
Melbourne Business School: Co-designed and facilitated a three-month hybrid programme for approx 100 regional journalists from Australian national broadcaster 7 News on: digital-first reporting, audience engagement, responsible AI experimentation, creator-style vertical video, and media law. Combined live instruction with asynchronous mentoring to support participants to publish their first digital-first stories. (2026).
Nine Publishing, Australia: Established the Nine Publishing Academy for Australia’s largest locally-owned commercial media company. The Academy supports editorial teams across The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Times, WAtoday, nine.com.au. Led enterprise learning-needs analysis; designed learning architecture, Training-of-Trainers approach and evaluation methodologies. Developed & launched programmes in newsroom leadership, mobile journalism, digital-first publishing to attract and grow subscribers, AI tools for photography production, multimedia storytelling and breaking-news workflows. Achieved >80% positive participant feedback and demonstrated workplace impact through longitudinal evaluation. Also Partnered with Product and AI teams as a GenAI Champion to support organisation-wide AI capability development and adoption. (2025-26).
Thomson Reuters Foundation, UK: Creator consultancy for Alternativata Bulgaria, to assist with audience engagement and video monetisation strategies, plus training in video shoot-editing for web and vertical platforms (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) (2025).
Thomson Reuters Foundation and BBC Media Action, UK: OSINT and Newsgathering - course for reporters and students in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova (2025).
Thomson Reuters Foundation, UK: Consultancy for iFact Georgia, on investigative filmmaking techniques to engage youth audiences, plus training in investigative film-making techniques (2024).
BBC Media Action, Cambodia: Creating and distributing content for social media, self-directed online course (2023).
Walkley Foundation, Australia: Management and budget oversight of six scholarship programs for emerging, disadvantaged, and Indigenous reporters including the Jacoby-Walkley Scholarship, WIN News Scholarship, Indigenous Journalist Scholarship, Walkley Opportunity Scholarship, Esme Fenston Fellowship and the Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism, (2023-2024).
Walkley Foundation, Australia: Training to help Australian newsrooms identify new income streams, and to define and measure audience impact from innovation approaches including solutions and constructive reporting (2024).
Walkley Foundation, Australia: Managed the Walkley Mentorship Program, a national program that pairs emerging reporters with industry mentors. Project included identifying and training mentors, and mentee matching (2023, 2024).
Thomson Reuters Foundation / Asian Development Bank, South Asia: Design of Reporting on Crises and Disasters, a training program that has been rolled out to hundreds of journalists in South Asia (2023).
Aga Khan University, Kenya: Media revenue and sustainability training for African Media Managers Boot Camp, a 7-month graduate program for mid-career media managers and editors from Kenya (2023).
WAN-IFRA, India: Podcast ideation and monetisation strategies, plus presentation skills training for the podcast team at The Hindu, one of India’s biggest newspapers (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025).
Thomson Reuters Foundation / United Nations, Global: Training reporters and CSOs from the 46 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to cover the UN LDC Conference in Qatar in 2023, including solutions and constructive angles. I also produced a handbook to help future LDC reporters to cover UN conferences (2022).
Judith Neilson Foundation, Australia: Member of advisory board convened to support creation of the Local Independent News Association, (2022).
University of Technology Sydney, Australia: I served as a Facilitator, for TechCamp Australia, a two-day USAID-funded workshop on techniques to counter disinformation for journalists from Pacific Island countries (2022).
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union ‘Media Academy’: Program for editors and reporters from 24 outlets across Central and East Asia to improve approaches and techniques to attract youth audiences to news content (2022).
USAID, Marshall Islands: Verification and fact-checking for reporters and journalism students (2022).
ABC International Development, Papua New Guinea: Training of Trainers for NBC radio editors, as part of the Media for Development Initiative, (2022).
ABC International Development / International Fact-Checking Network, Pacific Islands: Training of Trainers and fact-checking, online verification and OSINT to help regional editors establish the first Pacific division of IFCN, (2021).
BBC Media Action, Global: Reporting on Climate Change, self-directed online course (2021).
ABC International Development / International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Pacific Islands: Design and delivery of Training of Trainers: COVID-19 Reporting and Protecting Information Integrity, plus co-training 150 journalists from Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Palau (2021).
Google News Initiative / WAN-IFRA, Asia: Training to equip 20 Asia-based journalists with social networking and mobile multimedia skills, for Back to Work program, supporting reporters returning to work after being a primary carer (2021).
WAN-IFRA / Mathrubhumi Online, India: Podcast ideation and monetisation strategies for Mathrubhumi, one of India’s largest online news outlets (2021).
European Federation of Journalists, Serbia: Podcasting and social audio training for EFJ’s communications team (2021).
UNESCO France: Smartphone video and social media training for 500+ participants at UNESCO Remote Radio Week, (2021).
BBC Media Action, Ukraine: Mobile Journalism Self-Directed Course, for journalists and BBC staff in Ukraine (2020).
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Global: Research, training design and delivery: ‘How to deliver online training’, when face-to-face training shifted to online during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020).
WAN-IFRA South Asia / Times of India: Training on audience engagement techniques for senior editors, plus production skills training for reporters on social media, vertical video, podcasting, and mobile journalism (2020).
International Journalists’ Network, Global: Podcasting in Times of Pandemic - training for 300+ journalists (2020).
Internews, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: Mobile journalism training for journalists, delivered in Russian via simultaneous translation (2020).
Reach PLC / Google News Initiative, UK: Podcast Ideation and Monetisation Strategy, a roadshow training program for 80 reporters at Daily Mirror, Birmingham Mail, The Scotsman, and Manchester Evening News (2019).
WAN-IFRA Asia / Women in News, Vietnam: Newsroom strategy and convergence training for senior editorial leaders, plus multimedia production skills for women reporters, at the Vietnam News Agency (2019).
WAN-IFRA, India: Advanced training for editors from major outlets to design social-first editorial products. Program comprised in-person training in Mumbai followed by 3 months remote mentoring to support pilot projects at each participating outlet (2019).
BBC Media Action, Tunisia: Digital storytelling and editorially independent journalism techniques, to help Libyan NGOs to cover under-reported issues for the BBC Media Action program El Kul. (2018 and 2019).
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, Fiji: Training for Fijian TV journalists on covering elections (2018).
BBC Media Action, Algeria: Digital strategy, social engagement, and mobile multimedia production skills training for reporters from Radio Algerie in Saida and Tlemcen (2018).
International Mobile Journalism Festival, Ireland: Smartphone video production training for conference attendees (2018).
World Federation of Science Journalists, UK: Multimedia production and mobile journalism for African science journalists (2018).
BBC Media Action, Gulf Region: Registration-only social multimedia, digital privacy, online verification course (2018).
Oxfam, Fiji: Web and multimedia production training in Fiji for 23 Pacific Youth NGOs to produce content for PasifikaRising.Org, an EU-funded project to cover underreported stories for Raise Pacific Voices, (2018).
Journalism.Co.Uk, UK: Podcast ideation and monetisation training for newsrooms and small businesses (2014, 2015, 2016).
Digital convergence and multimedia training for female journalists in Vietnam
Digital editorial product design program, for editors from across India.
Digital multimedia training for Algerian State Radio
Communications training for Pacific Island National Youth Councils, Oxfam in the Pacific, Fiji
AI Enablement
I design practical learning and enablement programmes that help people use AI confidently, responsibly and effectively in their work. Projects range from enterprise adoption and policy-aligned resources to workflow training and facilitated experimentation.
Melbourne Business School: Co-designed and facilitated 3-month hybrid programme for regional 7News journalists, covering responsible AI use and digital-first reporting. (2026).
University of Wollongong: Led team delivering AI for Research, a self-directed online resource for academics to guide the selection and use of tools in line with university policies and guardrails (2026).
Nine Publishing, Australia: Served as a GenAI Champion - a team of in-house experts and ambassadors supporting enterprise-wide AI innovation and skills acquisition (2025-26).
Canva, Australia: Design of three AI-focused programmes: 1) Using Canva AI tools as a journalist 2) Using Canva templates and AI tools to cover elections 3) Using Canva templates and AI tools for rapid multiplatform content creation (2025).
Walkley Foundation, Australia: Design and delivery of AI and Journalism, a 6-month national program on the use of AI for day-to-day news reporting, photography, video journalism, audio reporting, investigative journalism, and newsroom workflows (2024).
University of Technology Sydney, Australia: Roundtable workshop co-facilitator for ‘How can we protect trustworthy news in the age of AI?’, a program for editors from India, Philippines, West Papua and Indonesia (2024).
Editors from Asia-Pacific attending ‘AI and News’ workshop at University of Technology Sydney.
Reporters from Nine Publishing attending a training workshop at The Age.
Solutions and Constructive Journalism
I work with media and social impact organisations to apply solutions and constructive approaches to complex narratives. My work focuses on practical implementation, audience impact and integrating these approaches into everyday journalistic and NGO communication practice.
Constructive Institute, Asia Pacific Hub: Consultancy to co-create CIAPH’s inaugural 3-year plan, including stakeholder mapping to gauge industry learning gaps and inform newsroom and university training programs in constructive journalism (2025).
Walkley Foundation, Australia: Design and delivery of Solutions Journalism, national 6-month program on using solutions reporting to boost audience engagement, impact, and revenue. Program developed in partnership with Solutions Journalism Network (2024).
Thomson Reuters Foundation, India and Brazil: Reporting on and Communicating Just Transition, dual-track training and mentoring for NGO communications staff and reporters to use solutions journalism to improve communication of climate change mitigation, green energy transition, and labour equity (2023).
The News Movement, UK: Solutions Journalism training for staff at The News Movement, an award-winning outlet providing news content for youth audiences (2022).
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Asia-Pacific: Social media, multimedia, and solutions journalism training for communication staff from biodiversity NGOs in 12 Asia-Pacific countries (2022).
Thomson Reuters Foundation / United Nations, Global: Training reporters and CSOs from the 46 Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to cover the UN LDC Conference in Qatar in 2023, including solutions and constructive angles. I also produced a handbook to help future LDC reporters to cover UN conferences (2022).
WAN-IFRA / Fathm, South East Asia: Training in Health Journalism and Solutions Journalism, for 30 reporters from South Asia participating in Journalism in the Age of Pandemics, (2022).
Social Impact and Research Communication
I help researchers, NGOs and public-interest organisations communicate complex evidence and social-impact issues clearly and effectively. My work spans research uptake, science and health communication, climate and biodiversity, and communications designed to drive research uptake among public and professional audiences.
MSF Australia: Audience engagement and video production skills for online and social media (2024, 2023).
Australian Council for International Development: Research consultancy and participatory human-centred design of Self-Assessment on Research Impact (SIRI) tool for Research for Development Impact Network. The tool directs international development researchers, academics, and NGO staff to relevant learning materials. It is paywalled for RDI Network members. See ACFID Annual Report, (2022).
Vienna Biocenter, Austria: Video filming and audio recording training, followed by post-training mentoring, to help communications staff and biomedical PhD researchers produce videos that drive public awareness and boost research uptake (2022).
Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland: Planning, filming and editing stories that drive research uptake, followed by communications team mentoring (2022).
Fathm, Asia: Design and delivery of training for reporters to cover COP26, as part of Challenge of the Climate Crisis (2021).
Thomson Reuters Foundation / Asian Development Bank, Asia: ‘Reporting on COVID-19’ for Asian journalists, covering virus science, tackling misinformation and disinformation, verification and OSINT skills, and smartphone multimedia production (2021).
Thomson Reuters Foundation / Sabin Vaccine Institute, Pacific and Eastern Europe: ‘Reporting on COVID-19’ for reporters from Pacific and SIDS states, and from Eastern Europe, covering virus science, tackling misinformation and disinformation, verification and OSINT skills, and smartphone multimedia production (2021).
Thomson Reuters Foundation / European Climate Foundation, Global: Design and delivery of ‘Climate Change Training of Trainers’ to equip reporters from 18 countries to train colleagues to cover the climate crisis (2021).
World Health Organisation / World Federation of Science Journalists, Kenya: Training science reporters from 23 African countries to cover public health emergencies (2015).
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Indonesia and Malaysia: Reporting Profit and Loss of Biodiversity, media and solutions journalism training and mentoring for NGO communicators (2022).
Thomson Reuters Foundation / Global Center on Adaptation, Global: Reporting on Locally Led Adaptation: media and solutions journalism training for 24 climate-focused NGO communications staff and journalists (2022).
Thomson Reuters Foundation / European Climate Foundation, South Asia: Reporting on Climate Change and Energy Transition – dual-track training and mentoring for South East Asian NGO communicators and journalists (2021).
Thomson Reuters Foundation / Global Fund, Pan-Africa: ‘Breaking Barriers to Public Health’ organisational media training and personal branding training for 35 African NGO communication staff (2020).
EuroFusion, Czech Republic: Social video and multimedia production for researchers at Europe’s peak body for fusion science (2018).
World Health Organisation Public Health Emergency training for science reporters, Kenya.
Strategic audience engagement consultancy and multimedia production training for Medecins Sans Frontieres, Australia
Professional Mentoring
I provide one-to-one mentoring for professionals navigating career change, new responsibilities, emerging technologies or practical workplace challenges. I have mentored journalists, editors, academics, communications professionals and senior media practitioners around the world.
Private mentoring: My clients include industry leaders, academics, and media managers seeking guidance on organisational strategy and emerging technologies, and individuals from a range of industries undergoing or seeking career transition (2018-present).
Thomson Reuters Foundation: I have provided 1:1 coaching and mentoring to editors, reporters, and NGO communication staff in more than 20 countries via TRF’s mentoring programs. Coaching supports a practical personal post-training project, to achieve real-world outcomes and build confidence and skills. (2015-present)
Nine Australia: I served as a mentor in the Nine Publishing Division’s women journalist mentoring program (2026).
Women in Media, Australia: I have served as a Women in Media mentor to female reporters from a variety of media roles, from junior journalists to senior editorial leaders (2023, 2024).
Walkley Mentoring Program Mentees 2024.
Working with a mentee to build practical videography skills.
Public Speaking
I speak at international conferences and industry events on media innovation, audience strategy, digital transformation, journalism practice and emerging technologies. Sessions range from keynote presentations, panels, workshops and moderated discussions.
International Journalism Festival 2024: Delivering and measuring social, editorial and business model impact
International Journalism Festival 2023: Find your brand voice on TikTok
Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Conference, 2022 Engaging Audiences and Youth on Mobile and Social Media
Digital Media Asia 2021: Trust, pay, and gateways in APAC
Asian Media Leaders Summit 2021: From content-centric to audience-centric: a data-led approach to better product
Indian Media Leaders Summit 2021: Digital Transformation, the strategies required to put audience needs first
International Journalism Festival 2020: Uncomfortable bedfellows? Balancing innovation in content and revenue models
European Journalism Centre, 2020: Visualising audio for video platforms, News Impact Summit ‘Audio and Voice’
Asian Media Leaders e-Summit, 2020: Inspiration and innovation in storytelling
International Journalism Festival 2019: What the international media development sector can teach newsrooms
Digital Media India 2019: Driving Revenue in Digital
International Journalism Festival 2018: How smartphones are making journalism fairer
International Journalism Festival 2024: Revisioning the journalism industry through a ‘solutions’ lens.
International Journalism Festival 2023: Find your brand voice on TikTok.
Reports and Publications
I develop practical reports, guides and learning resources that turn specialist knowledge into useful, accessible tools. My published work includes guides on solutions journalism, mobile journalism, climate reporting and digital media business models. Examples:
Implementing Solutions Journalism (2024)
This free online guide distils key takeaways from a 6-month training and mentoring program, which I delivered for the Walkley Foundation in partnership with the Solutions Journalism Network.
The guide will help you experiment with solutions approaches to journalism, navigate potential challenges, and leverage the opportunities it presents to forge closer relationships with audiences and improve your ability to cover diverse communities.
It also explains how to capture the impact of solutions stories to demonstrate social impact to financial stakeholders, including donors and advertisers, to boost revenue.
The Mobile Journalism Manual (2022)
The Mobile Journalism Manual for Reporters and Newsrooms: a free online book published by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s Media Programme Asia, in 2022. The Manual has been used as a set text at more than 50 universities worldwide. It is an excellent companion to an online or face-to-face workshop, and includes links to external tutorials on apps and equipment.
Challenge of the Climate Crisis (2021)
Contributing author to Challenge of the Climate Crisis, a handbook to help newsrooms cover climate change. It is based on learnings from journalism training I delivered on behalf of Fathm for WAN-IFRA in 2021, with funding from the Temasek Foundation.
Digital Business Models (2020)
I wrote the ‘Digital Publisher Business Models’ chapter in New and Niche Publishers Australian Guide to Digital Advertising, a guide for small and specialist media outlets to diversify revenue sources and strengthen online advertising published by IAB Australia in 2020.
Event Design
I support conferences and professional events through programme design, speaker development, content planning and facilitation. I have worked on major journalism awards, international conferences and practitioner events in Australia, Europe and Asia.
Walkley Foundation: Part of the team delivering the 2023 Walkley Awards, Australia’s most prestigious journalism awards, and Walkley Mid Year Celebration of Journalism, in 2023, and 2024.
Science Journalism Forum, Global: Consultancy to provide guidance on topics and speakers to the Science Journalism Forum, a virtual conference that has run annually since 2020 (2022, 2021, 2020).
Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Media Program, Asia: Consultancy to provide guidance on topics and speakers for the Mobile Journalism Conference for Asia. The inaugural conference in Bangkok in 2019 sold out, and an online conference, in 2020, attracted more than 750 participants from over 50 countries (2019-2020).
Mobile Journalism Meetups in London and Sydney: I ran monthly events on mobile journalism in London, hosted by Trinity Mirror, in 2015-2016. I ran similar events in Sydney, hosted by the ABC, in 2016-2017.
Mobile Journalism Conference Asia, Bangkok 2019
Walkley Mid Year Celebration of Journalism, 2023
University Teaching
I have designed and taught undergraduate and postgraduate journalism programmes, alongside guest teaching at universities internationally. My teaching spans digital journalism, editorial product development, revenue models, multimedia production and emerging newsroom practice. Examples:
University of Sydney 2020: Delivered ‘Digital and Online Journalism’, an MA Journalism course covering editorial skills, journalism revenue models and editorial product design. Received formal teaching commendation from Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
University of Melbourne, 2018: Designed and taught ‘Digital and Mobile Journalism’, a new final-year BA-level course covering journalism revenue models and editorial product design, and smartphone use for video shoot-editing, radio, podcasts, and photography.
Ateneo University, Philippines, 2018: Smartphone filming and editing, a module in the Masters of Journalism programme, for Konrad Adenauer Stiftung Media Program Asia.
Macleay College, 2017: Delivered BA Journalism units on Mobile Journalism, Video Journalism, Multimedia Journalism, and Newsroom Reporting (course includes multiplatform production and business model innovation).
Digital and Online Journalism lecturing, University of Sydney, Australia
Residential program, MA students, Ateneo University, Philippines
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