I have travelled the world training people to be better at their jobs.
I have trained correspondents, producers and contributors around the world to use thier mobile phones to gather fantastic stories - good enough for broadcast on the BBC. This has allowed both the BBC and CGTN to produce stories from underrepresented areas and use otherwise unseen footage to give the insights and intimacy that make great journalism.
For COP26, I researched and gathered facts about global waste which I shared with our contributors in the US, China, Nigeria and the UK. I then trained them remotely to use their mobile phones - in Nigeria a very basic model - to gather pieces to camera, b roll and interviews to create illuminating social videos and TV packages on the subject of waste. With a deep dive into shopping, clothes, food, transport and household waste, it highlighted how sustainable our societies are and showed us what we can learn from others. With mobile journalism this project cost just a fraction of the ordinary TV budget but the insights were priceless.