Articles

Full-time Roles (2022 – Present)

The Big Issue

I am currently a reporter at the Big Issue, covering climate and environment. Here are a selection of my digital and print pieces:

An interview with Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah Download

How much does the UK spend on healthcare?Download

Meet the inventors ‘on a mission to make plastic disappear’ – with seaweed

The NHS is ‘past the point of no return’ say junior doctors bearing the brunt of the NHS crisis

The environmental campaigner on a mission to ban disposable vapes

5 key takeaways from a damning review of the government’s net zero progress

Scotland aims to cut car use by creating ’20-minute neighbourhoods’ in net zero push

The pop culture milestones that helped shape LGBTQ+ history

‘Our education system is failing to teach us’: Why Nadia Whittome is joining forces with students to push climate education in the national curriculum

Cash for cans? What you need to know about the government’s new recycling reward scheme

Renewable energy: How does the UK compare to other countries?

Other pieces can be found on my author profile here.

Insider

I was a fellow on the Digital Culture desk at Insider, based in London, for four months. While there, I wrote a number of stories relating to internet influencers, viral TikToks, and online conversations.

‘One-stop hate shop’: Andrew Tate’s rise to TikTok superstardom is fueling violent misogyny and men’s rights extremism

Strippers are making TikToks about their negative experiences to debunk the glamorized portrayal of their jobs on ‘StripTok’

TikToks by crime-scene cleaners are gaining millions of views, but the gruesome content has led to backlash and even legal trouble

Inside the rise and fall of Gabbie Hanna: How a decade of online feuds and controversies culminated in a TikTok frenzy that dominated the internet and had fans concerned

Parents are posting TikToks of their kids reacting to ‘The Little Mermaid’ trailer in response to racist attitudes towards casting Halle Bailey as the lead

The Try Guys built a hugely successful YouTube channel as uncontroversial nice guys. Then explosive cheating rumors changed everything.

This weekend, Twitch’s biggest streamers meet for TwitchCon, but the run-up has seen the platform embroiled in intense backlash and controversy

A 24-year-old tweeted about her morning coffee routine with her husband. 10 hours later she was inundated with hate and criticism.

Meredith from ‘The Parent Trap’ was TikTok’s main character this summer. Elaine Hendrix, who played the iconic 90s role, is leaning in.

Other pieces can be found on my author profile here.

BBC

I worked as a Journalism Researcher on the BBC’s News Podcasts team, specifically focusing on the If You Don’t Know podcast, which is aimed at young Black Britons and hosted by Newsbeat presenter De-Graft Mensah.

As part of my role, I wrote features relating to the stories we covered on the podcast.

Campus racism: Suspended students ‘disillusioned’ over photo row

‘I thought being black meant I couldn’t get skin cancer’