A writer & editor working in museums, publishing & digital culture R&D, with long experience in cultural programming, the journalism of conflict, and public advocacy. I am a skilled freelance fundraiser & project manager, currently researching digital information ecosystems.
Exploring built digital media information spaces; unnatural ecosystems where humans seek to live sustainably & well.
Creative information project research & development for 'small media', and arts, cultural & museum sector partners.
Delivering all kinds of media, cultural & technological projects; drawing on years of personal contacts, expertise & experience.
A digital media lab for small publishers and a creative advocate for free expression rights between the virtual, the real, and the actual.
Leading new reorganisation & sustainability programmes
New programmes & projects for media & cultural organisations.
Development strategies for digital news verification tools & practices
Defending free expression rights in the world’s toughest corners
Opened IWPR's first award-winning multilingual online news service
Digital Media MA with distinction, in Technology & Cultural Form
Politics MSc, in Nationalist & Ethno-Religious Conflict Studies
Specialist training for high calibre BAME potential board members
Level Four BTEC certificate in Surviving Hostile Regions
Can we treat problems like fake news, native ads and ad-bot fraud as dangerous by-products of industrial scale content production online?
Should data scientists & artists ‘design in’ engineered capacity to induce human emotional responses to otherwise impenetrable data sets?
Small ‘hyper-local’ publishers need access to hyper-local audience market data granular enough to make their businesses sustainable.
There are no good options for journalists co-opted into joining the ‘war’ on extremist narratives online – only bad or ineffective ones.