I’m an ambitious, hard working journalist who has been working on newspapers in Birmingham for a year, currently as Enterprise Editor of the Birmingham Post, but with a wide variety of other responsibilities at the paper, both in the news and business sections.

In my time in Birmingham I have been lucky enough to have seen - and covered - some of the biggest stories in the country happening on my own doorstep. It’s already been a year of bomb scares, terror arrests, devastating floods, and political wrangles. I’ve also led journalistic investigations into topics like the use of fingerprinting in Midland schools and the effects of immigration on the region’s economy.

I have a passion for all aspects of news and the newsgathering process, but particularly politics, society and business, all three of which I have been lucky enough to be able to pursue at length already in my time here in Birmingham.

In my spare time I blog sporadically about beer and pubs here, as well as updating this webiste. I am a keen cinemaphile, and watch films as regularly as possible. I am a huge music fan, and go to see rock, heavy metal and dozens of other kinds of bands around the Midlands regularly. I also play squash and football, and am currently working my way through learning basic spoken and written Arabic.

I was born in Oxford, where I developed a sadly ubreakable affection for the beleaguered Oxford United Football Club, but brought up in Leicestershire before moving to London to study Philosophy at UCL. I then spent a year and a half in journalism training in Cardiff and Newcastle.

In the future I want to break great stories and write insightful comment and analysis for a respected, modern news service, whether a newspaper or through some kind of digital platform. I’ve set up this blog/website to show off what I’m up to and what I can do. I’m excited about the future for journalism as we progress into a digital future, and like to consider myself at the cutting edge of a new generation of multimedia reporters, who will hopefully be a big part of how Britain gets its news over the the coming century.