SERVICES
I work with social impact organisations, newsrooms, media development agencies, and science organisations to strengthen audience strategy, build capability, and navigate rapid change. Projects can range from short-term advisory work to longer-term partnerships.
My work combines strategic advice and research and capability development across the following themes.
Please get in touch to arrange a 30-minute confidential call to discuss how I can assist.
Audience Growth and Revenue Strategy
I help organisations define what they need to achieve — and how to get there. This includes:
Editorial content and product development
Strategies to engage and grow audiences
Aligning editorial, audience and revenue goals
This work is often the starting point for longer-term transformation and capability programmes.
Organisation Strategy and Advisory (split between strategy and move research down?)
Solutions and Constructive Journalism
Transformation and Capability Programs
I design and deliver structured programmes that build capability for individuals and across organisations, to help people build and master new skills.
Delivery can include a mix of self-directed, virtual, and in-person training, coaching, and practical implementation support.
Themes include:
Newsroom leadership and decision-making
Digital skills and workflows
Multimedia storytelling and content formats
Verification, trust, and misinformation response
Embedding new tools, including AI, into editorial practice
Video, Audio, and Podcast Skills Training
Media for Development
I work with implementing agencies to train reporters and NGO communications staff in emerging economies and fragile states, to respond to crises and disasters, climate change, public health emergencies.
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Research and Advisory
I work with organisations exploring new challenges, opportunities, or areas of risk. This includes:
Science communication
Media landscape and stakeholder analysis
Research into audience behaviour and content trends
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Facilitation and Speaking
I facilitate discussions, workshops, and events that help teams think clearly, make decisions, and move forward.
This includes:
Strategy workshops and leadership sessions
Editorial and product sprints
Conference facilitation and moderation
Keynotes and talks on media, journalism, and digital change
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Public Speaking and Moderation
HOW I WORK
My approach is collaborative and practical. I bring experience from journalism, training, and international media development, and adapt this to each organisation’s context.
GET IN TOUCH
If you’re planning a project or exploring how to strengthen your organisation’s editorial strategy or capability, I’d be happy to discuss.
Nine Publishing, Australia: Designed and launched the Publishing Academy, an in-house program to build skills and streamline processes at the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Times, and WA Today. Programs include: newsroom leadership, digital production to boost subscriber engagement and retention, and breaking news workflows (2025-26).
Thomson Reuters Foundation, UK: Consultancy for Alternativata Bulgaria on video monetisation and engagement strategies, plus staff training in video shoot-editing for web and vertical platforms (TikTok, Reels, Shorts) (2025).
Thomson Reuters Foundation, UK: Consultancy for iFact Georgia on engaging youth audiences through investigative filmmakings, plus training in investigative camera techniques (2024).
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).
ABU Media Academy, Malaysia: Training program for editors and reporters from Central and East Asia, on techniques to engage youth audiences with news content (2022).
WAN-IFRA / Mathrubhumi Online, India: Podcast ideation and monetisation strategies for Mathrubhumi, one of India’s largest online news outlets (2021).
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).
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 (2019-2020).
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, Algeria: Digital strategy, social engagement, and mobile multimedia production skills training for reporters from Radio Algerie in Saida and Tlemcen (2018).
Digital convergence and multimedia training for female journalists in Vietnam
Digital editorial product design program, for editors from across India.
Video, Audio, and Podcast Training
Nine Publishing, Australia: Designed and launched the Publishing Academy, an in-house program to build skills and streamline processes at the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, Australian Financial Review, Brisbane Times, and WA Today. Skills include newsgathering for web and social media, and video journalism training for text reporters (2025-26).
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).
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: 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 (2021).
European Federation of Journalists, Serbia: Podcasting and social audio training for EJF’s communications team (2021).
New York University, USA: Personal branding and social media strategy training for Centre for International Communication (CIC) staff (2021).
UNESCO, France: Smartphone video and social media training for 500+ participants at UNESCO Remote Radio Week (2021).
International Journalists’ Network, Global: Podcasting in Times of Pandemic training for 300+ journalists (2020).
Internews, Kazakhstan and Kyrgystan: Mobile journalism training for journalists, delivered in Russian via simultaneous translation (2020).
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).
Journalism.Co.Uk, UK: Podcast ideation and monetisation training for newsrooms and small businesses (2014, 2015, 2016).
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).
Podcast training for reporters and small businesses, hosted by Reuters in London.
Mobile journalism participants from African media outlets, at training in Oxford, UK.
AI and Journalism
Nine, Australia: Member of Nine’s ‘GenAI Champions’ team, supporting AI innovation and skills acquisition across Australia’s largest locally-owned media organisations (2026).
Canva, Australia: Training design:1) Using Canva AI tools as a journalist 2) Using Canva templates and AI tools to cover elections c) Using Canva templates and AI tools for rapid multiplatform content creation (2025).
Walkley Foundation, Australia: Design and delivery of AI and Journalism, a national series on the use of AI for text, photo, video, audio, and investigative journalism, and on newsroom workflows (2024).
University 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 & Indonesia (2024).
Editors from Asia-Pacific attending ‘AI and News’ workshop at University Technology Sydney.
Engaging audiences on social media for Indian news publishers, India.
International Media Development
Walkley Foundation, Australia: Management and budget oversight of scholarship programs for emerging, disadvantaged, and Indigenous reporters and the Sean Dorney Grant for Pacific Journalism (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).
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).
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).
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).
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 from Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Palau (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).
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).
Digital multimedia training for Algerian State Radio reporters
Communications training for Pacific Island National Youth Councils, Oxfam in the Pacific, Fiji
Organisation Strategy and Advisory
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).
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: Research consultancy, ‘Strategic analysis of media literacy programming trends’, to improve IFES ability to bid for competitive programming. (2021).
International Federation of Electoral Systems, Mekong: Research concultancy, ‘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).
Australian Council for International Development: Research consultancy and participatory human-centred design of Self-Assessment on Research Impact (SIRI) tool for Research Development for 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).
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
Solutions and Constructive Journalism
Constructive Institute, Asia Pacific Hub: Consultancy to co-create CIAPH 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 & 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).
Communicating Science and Public Health
Fathm, Asia: Design & delivery of training for reporters to cover COP26, as part of the Challenge of the Climate Crisis program (2021).
Thomson Reuters Foundation / Asia 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).
MSF, Australia: Audience engagement and video production skills for online and social media (2024, 2023).
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).
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
Career Coaching and Mentoring
Private Coaching: I provide 45-minute career coaching and mentoring sessions on request. Coaching clients have included senior media leaders and editors keen to soundboard new strategies and tech, academics and researchers, and individuals from a range of industries preparing for a career transition (2018-present).
Thomson Reuters Foundation, Various: I have provided 1:1 coaching and mentoring to editors and reporters in more than 15 countries through TRF’s post-training mentoring programs (2015-present).
Nine, Australia: I provided mentoring to women reporters via the Publishing Division’s gender equity mentoring program (2026).
Walkley Foundation, Australia: I managed the roll-out and budget of the Walkley Mentorship Program, including identifying and booking mentors, and matching them with mentees (2023, 2024).
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 and Moderation
International Journalism Festival 2024: Revisioning the journalism industry through a ‘solutions’ lens: delivering and measuring social, editorial and business model impact
International Journalism Festival 2023: Find your brand voice on TikTok
Asia-Pacific Broadcast 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 & 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.
Online Course Creation
Thomson Reuters Foundation and BBC Media Action, UK: OSINT and Newsgathering course for reporters and students in Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova (2025).
BBC Media Action, Cambodia: Creating and distributing content for social media, self-directed online course (2023).
BBC Media Action, Global: Reporting on Climate Change, self-directed online course (2021).
BBC Media Action, Ukraine: Mobile Journalism Self-Directed Course for journalists and BBC staff in Ukraine (2020).
BBC Media Action, Gulf Region: Registration-only social multimedia, digital privacy, online verification course (2018)
Reporting on Climate Change, self-directed online course (public access).
OSINT and Newsgathering self-directed online course (registration-only).
Event Design
Walkley Foundation: 2023 Walkley Awards, Australia’s most prestigious journalism awards, and Walkley Mid Year Celebration of Journalism in 2023 and 2024.
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 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).
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
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
Reports and Publications
Many of my projects include the production of internal and external-facing reports and publications. A selection of public-facing publications is below.
Implementing Solutions Journalism (2024)
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.
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