My Work: BBC News Interactive

I worked on BBC News Online between 2000 and 2004, covering stories and running sections for one of the world’s biggest news sites.

This involved researching and filing my own multimedia reports, assembling packages from wire copy and editing reporters’ stories for the web as well as for Ceefax and digital text services.

It was a broad remit. Sometimes I was reporter, some days on radio, some days a subeditor; but it always required writing snappy, newsy text (full of clarity), editing video and audio in a multimedia newsroom environment and using web production skills to build out special in-depth sections to underpin stories.

I was routinely responsible for overseeing a busy national desk (staying across wire copy and coordinating five regional spokes desks), and covered as news editor.

My work, which involved general news and specialised in technology, culture and business, gained a commendation in an Internet Journalist of the Year award, judges for which flattered me with their noting its “sparkling and authoritative writing”; I shared in a team award, too.

Whilst at the BBC, I also took an attachment as an Interactive Assistant Producer, during which I managed delivery of news content to mobile and cable TV platforms and coordinated audience participation features for TV shows using digital satellite, SMS and the web.

Here is just a handful of the hundreds of stories I worked on…