2023-2024        First Edition editor, the  Guardian 

Writing and editing the Guardian’s flagship daily newsletter sent to 350,000 readers everyday. This high-profile role requires both flair colour writing and expert news sense. I pick the one topic readers need to know about and tell it in a different, engaging and entertaining way.

2017-2024   Wealth correspondent, the Guardian 

My job is to give readers a unique and lively insight into the lives of the world's super-rich and how they impact on everyone else. My extensive global investigations have uncovered billionaire's scandalous tax avoidance, mistreatment of workers, the engineering of huge pay awards and schemes to influence global politics.

Recent examples include:
- Exposing that a charity set up by the UK’s richest person, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, was to be investigated by the Charity Commission after funding a £16m luxury clubhouse for an exclusive French Alps club where he and his daughter skied.
- Revealing that the billionaire Hinduja brothers were allowed to avoid planning rules to build a £1.2bn luxury development without any affordable housing.
- An investigation showing that a firm advised by Owen Patterson was granted a coronavirus pandemic contract without tender won a Paul Foot award.
-  Uncovering that the billionaire restaurateur Richard Caring won council permission to close a main road to have 52 trees lifted into this garden.
-  Revealing that King Charles owns whole villages in Norfolk. -  Detailing the London mansions of sanctioned oligarchs -  The battle between the Telegraph billionaires and the former feudal lord of Sark

My stories are all self-generated and require a good degree of digging and working sources as most of the super-rich go out of their way to avoid the media's glare. The exclusive stories, which have been widely followed, often concentrate on exposing how the very rich game the system to avoid the rules that apply to everyone else. 

I have exposed the billionaires who pay no tax, and those who exploit planning loopholes to build giant personal mansions. My work often concentrates on how the playboy lifestyles of the super-rich disadvantages their staff, including an exposé on the number of yacht crew who died while working on billionaire's superyachts.

Another series followed the lives of those who work for the super-rich in The Hamptons, and how they are often forced to food banks in the winter when the rich leave town. My work is immersive and engaging and often involves video and audio packages, including tracking down Sir Philip Green to his superyacht in Monaco.

I am known for my flair and lively writing style, which led to my stories to be often commissioned by the Guardian Saturday magazine and the Observer magazine. 

My position as the Guardian’s de facto chief business correspondent meant that as well as my specialist role covering wealth, I also cover and break the biggest stories across global business. I have broken stories across all sectors of business, from mergers and acquisitions, to huge job cuts, excessive pay deals and other scandals. I am one of very few journalists with the skill to present complex business stories in a consumer-friendly way so that they can hold a page three in the paper or a network front slot.

My stories are the most read on the Guardian’s business website, with some stories of mine attracting in excess of a million readers - far in excess of the average 20,000 hits a business story attracts. The analytics also show that readers engage thoroughly with my stories, shown by them regularly attracting ‘five gold clock’ attention time. 

I also regularly edit the Guardian’s business section. I have extensive experience setting the news agenda, commissioning and editing reporters, and pitching business stories to the front of the paper and website. 

2015- 2016 US Business Correspondent, The Guardian US

I was responsible for writing, commissioning and editing the Guardian's US business and economic coverage. This was a wide ranging brief and as a writing-editor with a staff of two, it tested my skills of story selection. I ensured we covered the most important stories in a meaningful way, as well as producing a string of exclusive splashes and a series of long form articles for the Guardian and Observer magazines. 

I travelled the US often, including to the IMF meeting in Washington DC where in an interview the then-chancellor George Osborne told me Brexit would lead to a hike in mortgage rates. That story splashed the paper. 

I also built up a strong vein in inequality stories and features. I was also tasked with concentrating on the US gun industry as a key theme of importance for the Guardian, a video package I created from a gun industry trade fair was watched by more than 4m people. I enjoyed exploring new media tools to tell stories in different and enhanced ways. 

While my official responsibility was to cover business, my talent as a writer led me to be commissioned for long form stories covering everything from Trump’s candidacy for President, LGBTQI issues, racial discrimination, sports and the impact of technology on our lives. 

I also set up a popular mentorship scheme to support the development of junior members of staff. 

2011- 2015 Senior Business Correspondent, The Guardian 

As senior Guardian business reporter I was responsible for covering the most important story of the day, as well as sourcing and delivering a series of exclusive stories. I covered the IPO of Royal Mail, the collapse of BHS, and uncovered corruption at commodity trader Glencore. 

My investigation of an obscure business legal battle led to Liam Fox being forced to resign as defence secretary. My months-long probe was awarded honours by the both of the leading British newspaper awards. I was commended by the judges for being one of the first reporters to break a series of scoops across media platforms from the paper, the website, on TV, the radio and Twitter.

I also broke a series of other big exclusives including revealing that more than £50m of World Food Programme aid money has ended up in the hands of Glencore, the commodity trader run by billionaires. Discovering that Grant Shapps, chairman of the co-chairman of Conservative Party ran an empire of internet sites blacklisted by Google over allegations of breaching copyright regulations. Both were front page exclusives. My reporting included stints in Greece, Cyprus, Switzerland and Germany. 

2013 Reporter, Der Spiegel, Berlin, Germany 

I won the George Weidenfeld scholarship, which included three months working for Germany’s premier news magazine. My work included magazine cover articles on Germany’s ‘Energiewende’ to shutdown all nuclear power plants in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, and huge demand for back-to-nature forest kindergartens. 

Awards 

2012 News Reporter of the Year, the British Press Awards, shortlist

2012 News Reporter of the Year, the British Journalism Award, shortlist

2012 Scoop of the Year, Politics Home Awards, shortlist

2013 George Weidenfeld Fellowship, Der Spiegel, Berlin, Germany 

2006 Journalist of the Year & Newspaper of the Year, Guardian Student Media Awards 

Education 

06-07 PG Dip Newspaper Journalism, City University 

02-05 Imperial College London, BSc (Hons) Biology (2.1) 

99-01 Peter Symonds sixth form, Winchester. Biology, Chemistry, Maths A-Level

94-99 Henry Beaufort secondary school, Winchester. 

Skills 100 wpm shorthand, video, liveblogging and multimedia journalism