Field Production Work
In addition to regularly pitching, coordinating, and embarking with our talent on breaking news coverage across Europe, I've lead on CNBC's annual production of key international gatherings including the World Economic Forum, the Women’s Forum, the Paris Peace Forum, and CNBC’s tech industry coverage around Mobile World Congress and Viva Tech, to name a few.
Starting off at CNBC as the 2020 U.S. election lead guest booker, I drove up the newsroom’s gender & racial diversity on-air representation as well as hit on a variety of new angles, approaches, and topics. This led me to take on two core newsroom beats, France and Spain, in the span of six months, adding Switzerland the following year, and applying the same editorial prowess to complex issues like macroeconomic outlooks, market sell-offs, corporate earnings, and monetary policy shifts.
While regularly field producing, I simultaneously pitched on average three to four relevant daily segments and booked corresponding guests for both of CNBC’s morning programs, Squawk Box and Street Signs. I also developed longer-term themed coverage weeks, such as global food insecurity or explaining crypto, repackaging television sequence for digital and partnering with social to create content and expand followership.
2022 French Elections
Paris, Lens, Lyon, Marseille, Strasbourg
Setting the scene
Developing our French election coverage from scratch, I travelled weekly from the U.K. to Paris, Marseille, Lyon, Strasbourg, and Lens with several of our reporters and anchors to cover breaking candidate stories, achieving CNBC’s highest rate of French political party representation in the program’s recent history, the highest number of interactions with the country’s finance, foreign, energy, and culture ministers of any other European news network during the cycle, and the only international doorstep from the winning president on the night of his election. During this time, I liaised with our output and digital teams to design accurate branding, deliver footage of rallies and campaign events, and create viral Instagram and TikTok videos for our social team.
On the ground reporting
I organized and conducted interviews with some of the nation's leading figures across the political spectrum, from the incumbent government's minister of energy to members of the right-wing opposition in parliament.
Sharing the journey
I led on CNBC International's social media content of our election coverage, producing Instagram reels and creating TikTok videos that topped our view records and increased our platform followership by thousands.
Global Food Security
Suffolk, United Kingdom
Food supply in crisis
As the lead architect for CNBC EMEA's Global Food Security program, I developed our coverage spanning a full week in partnership with our Asia bureau to highlight global food price inflation exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, a major grain exporter. This involved thorough research of potential sites to exemplify and visually translate the obstacles facing the agriculture sector: severe droughts, supply disruptions exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, labor shortages compounded by Brexit, and rampant inflation affecting the costs of fuel and fertilizer.
I spoke to a variety of farmers and ended up travelling up the country with a small crew to speak with the Suffolk Chair of the National Farmers Union, whose crop yields, water reservoirs, and harvests embodied the consequences of these challenges.
The World Economic Forum
Davos, Switzerland
One week, months in the making
As one of the two news desk producers leading our Davos coverage and guesting, I spent the months leading up to the forum securing and planning the content of interviews with global and corporate leaders including members of the Ukrainian government and CNBC's first ever interview with the prime minister of Spain. I also contributed to building CNBC's own panels on the future of AI in healthcare and diversity discrepancy in the workforce
Mobile World Congress & Viva Tech
Barcelona, Spain; Paris, France
A deep dive into the tech world
Leading and setting CNBC International's tech event production in 2022, I fixated on the industry at one of its most pivotal moments. I tailored our coverage to the themes of post-pandemic trend acceleration, 5G, cyber warfare, the metaverse expansion, digital twins, and the future of investment with some of the industry's most influential figures including the CEO of Binance, the Chairman of Twitter, and France's Finance Minister among many others.