Since qualifying as a broadcast journalist in 2009, I've been heard reading news for some of the UK's biggest commercial radio groups - from gold stations like Smooth Radio to CHR outfits like Key 103, I've worked on a wide range of formats with equally different target audiences.
I spent 18 months reading breakfast news for Mercia and presenting Orion Media's regional Gold news output in the mornings under the pseudonym Nick Harris, following a spell at BBC Radio Cumbria in 2009. I left Mercia to join BBC Radio Oxford full-time in April 2011.
Hear one of my BBC Radio Oxford news bulletins:
I've received several award nominations for my radio work in the last two years - picking up 'Journalist of the Year' nods at the BBC Partnership, Orion Media and 2010 and 2011 Midlands Media Awards. I also won the 'Best Short TV Package' prize at the BJTC Awards (pictured, right) for a television news report on a cancer-diagnosing dog.
As well as being an experienced newsreader, I'm a seasoned reporter - having interviewed everyone from government ministers to Sir Bobby Charlton. I also secured the first interview with the owners of the now-world-famous cat thrown into a wheelie bin in Coventry.
Hear one of my Mercia bulletins (under the pseudonym Nick Harris):
I also have extensive production experience, ranging from turning around news-led speech content to researching, packaging and scripting one-hour specials single-handedly, and am well-versed in online content generation too (I can even code websites from scratch, having put together the site you're looking at now.)
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BJTC Awards presentation
The JD Show team at Mercia