SERVICES

To arrange a confidential call about an upcoming project, please get in touch. Here are examples of the support I provide:

  • Newsroom Innovation

  • Social Impact and NGO Communications

  • Strategy, Research, and Project Management Consultancies

  • Online Course Creation

  • Sessional Journalism Lecturing

  • Guides and Handbooks

  • Event Design and Management

Newsroom Innovation

I provide consultancies coupled with the design and delivery of training where appropriate, to help newsrooms adapt to digital disruption and opportunities. Projects typically commence with a Needs Assessment, and can be followed by monitoring and evaluation (M&E) including pre and post-training surveys and impact reports for key stakeholders including donors.

  • Nine Publishing, Australia: Designed and launched the Publishing Academy, an in-house program to support innovation and professional development for staff at the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Times, and WA Today. Programs include: newsroom leadership, breaking news, video journalism, audience-first digital journalism, and digital production (2025-26).

  • Canva, Australia: Design of journalism training: 1) Using Canva AI tools as a journalist 2) Using Canva templates to support election reporting c) Using Canva tools for rapid multiplatform content creation (2025).

  • Thomson Reuters Foundation, UK: Consultancy in video engagement and monetisation strategies, plus video shoot-editing skills for online, social, and TikTok / Reels, for Alternativata Bulgaria (2025).

  • Thomson Reuters Foundation, UK: Investigative video filmmaking and promotion techniques to engage youth audiences, for iFact Georgia (2024).

  • Walkley Foundation, Australia: Industry-responsive training design and delivery: two 6-month programs: AI and Journalism and Solutions Journalism, plus short seminars e.g. audience revenue, covering climate change, and finance reporting(2024).

  • The Hindu / WAN-IFRA, India: Strategy and skills training in podcast ideation, monetisation, and presentation skills for English-language podcasters at The Hindu, one of India’s biggest newspapers (2022, 2023, 2024, 2025).

  • University Technology Sydney: Facilitator for roundtable workshop for journalists from India, Philippines, West Papua & Indonesia, ‘How can we protect trustworthy news in the age of AI’? (2024).

  • Thomson Reuters Foundation / Asian Development Bank, South Asia: Design of Reporting on Crises and Disasters, a training program rolled out for more than 100 journalists in South Asia (2023).

  • 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).

  • The News Movement, UK: Solutions journalism training for one of the UK’s most innovative and award-winning news brands for youth audiences (2022).

  • University Technology Sydney, Australia: Facilitator for TechCamp Australia, a two-day USAID-funded workshop on techniques to counter disinformation for journalists from Pacific Island countries (2022).

  • WAN-IFRA Asia / Fathm, South East Asia: Health Science Journalism and Solutions Journalism for Journalism in the Age of Pandemics training for 30 reporters from SE Asia (2022).

  • ABU Media Academy, Malaysia: Training for news reporters from Central and East Asia on techniques to engage youth audiences (2022).

  • USAID, Marshall Islands: Journalism fact-checking skills for reporters and journalism students (2022).

  • Aga Khan University, Kenya: African Media Manager Bootcamp – digital newsroom convergence training for 30 news leaders and editors from African countries (2022).

  • ABC International Development, Papua New Guinea: Training of Trainers for NBC radio editors (2022).

  • Fathm, Asia: Design & delivery of Challenge of the Climate Crisis training for journalists to cover COP26 (2021).

  • WAN-IFRA South Asia / Mathrubhumi Online, India:  Training in podcast ideation and monetisation strategies for one of India’s largest online newsrooms (2021).

  • European Federation of Journalists, Serbia: Podcasting and social audio for EFJ trade union staff (2021).

  • Thomson Reuters Foundation / Asia Development Bank, Asia: Reporting on COVID-19 for 24 Asian journalists, covering science / misinformation / disinformation, OSINT, and mobile-first multimedia (2021).

  • Thomson Reuters Foundation / Sabin Vaccine Institute, Pacific and Eastern Europe: Design and delivery of training on vaccination misinformation / disinformation: fact-checking, OSINT, and mobile-first multimedia storytelling, for reporters from SIDS states and separately from Eastern Europe (2021).

  • Thomson Reuters Foundation / European Climate Foundation, Global: Climate Change ‘Training of Trainers’ (2021).

  • ABC International Development / International Fact-Checking Network, Pacific Uskabds: Training of Trainers and fact-checking, online verification and OSINT for journalists from 6 Pacific countries to establish Pacific division of IFCN (2021).

  • Google News Initiative, East Asia: Social networking and mobile multimedia training for Back to Work program for 20 Asia-based journalists returning to work after being a primary carer (2021).

  • UNESCO, France: Smartphone video and social media training for 500+ participants at UNESCO Remote Radio Week (2021).

  • ABC International Development / International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Pacific Islands: Design & delivery of COVID-19 Reporting and Protecting Information Integrity Training of Trainers, plus co-training 150 journalists in Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Palau (2021).

  • WAN-IFRA South Asia / Times of India: Audience engagement techniques and production skills in social media, online video, podcasting, and mobile journalism for senior journalists (2020).

  • International Journalists’ Network, Global: Podcasting in Times of Pandemic training for 300+ journalists (2020).

  • Reach PLC / Google News Initiative, UK: Podcast Ideation / Monetisation Roadshow for regional newspaper journalists in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, and Manchester. (2019-2020).

  • Internews, Kazakhstan and Kyrgystan: Mobile journalism training for journalists, delivered in Russian via simultaneous translation (2020).

  • WAN-IFRA Asia / Women in News, Vietnam: Multimedia journalism for Vietnam News Agency (2019)

  • WAN-IFRA, India: Advanced training for editors from multiple titles to design new digital editorial products - in-person workshop in Mumbai plus 3 months remote mentoring to support pilots at participating outlets (2019).

  • Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, Fiji: Reporting on elections for Fijian television journalists (2018)

  • World Federation of Science Journalists, UK: Multimedia production and mobile journalism for African science journalists (2018).

  • BBC Media Action, Algeria: Digital strategy, mobile journalism and social media training for regional and rural reporters at Radio Algerie in Saida and Tlemcen (2018).

  • World Federation of Science Journalists / World Health Organisation, Kenya: Training African science reporters to cover public health emergencies, delivered in Nairobi, Kenya (2015).

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Digital multimedia training for Algerian State Radio reporters

Podcast training for reporters and small business at Reuters in London

Public Health Emergency training for science reporters, Kenya

Digital convergence and multimedia for female journalists in Vietnam

Strategy, Research, and Project Management Consultancies

I work on a contract basis with a wide range of organisations and implementing agencies to provide problem-solving consultancy, research, and project management with budget oversight.

  • Constructive Institute, Asia Pacific: Consultancy to co-design inaugural Three Year Plan, conduct stakeholder mapping, gauge learning gaps, design newsroom and university training programs (2025).

  • Walkley Foundation, Australia: Project and budget management of scholarships for emerging, disadvantaged, and Indigenous reporters, Walkley Mentorship Program, and the Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism (2023-2024).

  • Global Forum for Media Development, Belgium: Strategic communications consultancy to improve communications with internal and external stakeholders, support web refresh and align social media strategy with business goals (2022).

  • Judith Neilson Foundation, Australia: Member of advisory board convened to support creation of the Local Independent News Association (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).

  • 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).

  • 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: Wrote research report, “Strategic analysis of media literacy programming trends”, to improve IFES ability to bid for competitive programming. (2021).

  • International Federation of Electoral Systems, Mekong: Strengthening Digital Media Literacy in the Mekong Region – research to identify media literacy best practice and co-design Media Literacy Training of Trainers to help social impact NGOs from Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam to train their communities in MIL (2021).

  • 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).

  • Australian Council for International Development: Research and participatory human-centred design of Self-Assessment on Research Impact (SIRI) tool for Research Development for Impact Network. The tool helps international development researchers, academics, and NGO staff to self-identify learning gaps and be directed to relevant learning materials. It is paywalled for RDI Network members. Further reading – ACFID Annual Report (2022).

  • Konrad Adenaeur 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 the online conference in 2020 attracted more than 750 participants from over 50 countries (2019-2020).

  • 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).

Consultancy and charette to support 3-Year Strategy for International Media Support, Denmark

Consultancy to support launch of Constructive Institute Asia-Pacific Hub, Australia

Social Impact and NGO Communications

  • MSF, Australia: Audience engagement and video production skills for online and social media (2024, 2023).

  • Thomson Reuters Foundation, India & 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).

  • 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, Indonesia & 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).

  • New York University, USA: Personal branding and organisational social media training for Centre for International Communication (CIC) staff (2021).

  • Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Switzerland: Planning, filming and editing stories that drive research uptake, followed by communications team mentoring (2021).

  • Vienna Biocenter, Austria: Mobile video and audio training and mentoring for communications staff and PhD researchers to drive awareness and boost biomedical research uptake (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).

  • 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).

  • EuroFusion, Czech Republic: Social video and multimedia production for researchers at Europe’s peak body for fusion science (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).

Strategic audience engagement consultancy and multimedia production training for Medecins Sans Frontieres, Australia

Communications training for Pacific Island National Youth Councils, Oxfam in the Pacific, Fiji

Online Course Creation

  • Thomson Reuters Foundation, UK: Production of Open-Source Investigation (OSINT) course for university students in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova (2025).

  • BBC Media Action, Cambodia: Creating and distributing content for social media, self-directed online course (2023).

Sessional Journalism Lecturing

  • Sydney University 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 new final-year BA-level course in Digital and Mobile Journalism, covering smartphone video, radio, podcasts and photography, and journalism revenue models and editorial product design.

  • Ateneo University, Philippines, 2018: Smartphone filming and editing, a module in the Masters of Journalism programme for Konrad Adenaeur 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

Event Design and Management

I have worked with a variety of clients to contribute to the design and content of conferences, including:

  • Science Journalism Forum: Consultancy on topics and speakers to the Science Journalism Forum, a virtual conference that has run annually since 2020 (2020-2022).

  • Konrad Adenaeur Stiftung’s Media Program Asia: Consultancy to provide guidance on topics and speakers for 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 smartphone storytelling 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

Guides and Handbooks

Implementing Solutions Journalism (2024)

Implementing Solutions Journalism - A guide to putting solutions approaches into practice for reporters and editors.

This free online guide distils key takeaways from a 6-month training and mentoring program 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, 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 is a free online book by Corinne Podger, which was 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)

I was a 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 Publisher 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 diversifying revenue sources and strengthening online advertising published by IAB Australia in 2020.


Speaking Engagements

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