A little about me, and the story so far...

I'm a multimedia journalist with over five years experience in the industry, specialising in sports journalism coverage in both print and online. With a passion for, and experience in, podcasting and graphic design, I consider myself to have many strings to my bow - making myself a valuable asset to any company or media outlet. My first forray into sports journalism began with a couple of early blogs, which later provided a solid grounding for working with football website 90min from November 2015 onwards as a contributor - creating match reports and preview articles focusing mainly on the German Bundesliga; and being featured in Birmingham City University student publication 'The Scratch' magazine in the summer of 2016. Between June 2016 and March 2018, I had been involved with Brum Radio - an online radio station based in Digbeth, Birmingham - working voluntarily as a producer and social media assistant, later becoming a co-host and regular contributor to weekly sport show The Forward Factor to offer my thoughts and opinions on Birmingham's sporting and music scene. I also co-hosted The Bluescast alongside Tim Arstall between March 2017 and October 2018, a weekly Birmingham City podcast discussing all the muses and ongoings at the club, at youth level, the women's team and everything else blue in-between. Complementing my work with Brum Radio, I have worked continuously for sports writing agency Write Angle Media since November 2017 - to the present day - under the direction of David Lawrence, being accredited to numerous games in the West Midlands to produce match reports from all levels of non-league football up to the National League - being featured in the Birmingham Mail, the Coventry Telegraph, the Sunday Mercury, the Non-League Football Paper and various others during this time. It is these experiences which helped me earn my first full-time job in sports journalism, namely at Bullivant Media as the chief sports editor - working on the Bromsgrove and Droitwich Standard, Redditch and Alcester Standard, Coventry Observer, Leamington Observer, Rugby Observer and Solihull Observer newspapers - a position I held between December 2018 to September 2021. I also run a vintage sportswear side business, Brum Vintage, which I founded in April 2017 - dealing in all things retro football shirts - something which have been a great passion of mine since childhood. Through my work in print, radio and podcasting to date, I have been given invaluable experiences covering the likes of Birmingham City Ladies, Wasps Netball and England Roses netball team - reporting live at games and producing content for both the radio show/podcast, and for social media. In terms of my favourite memory in sports journalism to date, in May 2017, I was fortunate enough to be in the press box at Wembley Stadium to report on the SSE Women's FA Cup final between Birmingham City Ladies and Manchester City Women; including the following year for the 2018 final between Arsenal and Chelsea, experiences that further whet my appetite to work in the sports media industry.