MY CV

Professional Experience

Mar 2020 - Aug 2023

RTHK

I was a technical news producer, reporter, presenter, newsreader, and sub-editor for the English unit of the radio division of Hong Kong’s public broadcaster. Duties included producing and presenting the station’s flagship current affairs programmes Hong Kong Today and Newswrap, as well as the station’s hourly news bulletins. I cover international news and local Hong Kong stories; this involves looking for international stories in the news wires, as well as covering day-to-day local news like the government’s Covid-19 press briefings.

Oct 2017 - Mar 2020

COCONUTS MEDIA

Associate Editor for Coconuts Media’s Hong Kong website. Duties include writing news articles and features, food and lifestyle pieces, taking photographs for those pieces and maintaining the website’s social media accounts. Articles I have written include a news feature about the clean-up efforts at a protest site following the extradition bill demonstrations on June 12, 2019; a feature piece about an evangelical Christian theme park; and an interview with a local band called GDJYB who sing about social and political issues in “Kongish.”

Jun 2012 - May 2014

WARNER BROS. INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION PRODUCTION BELGIE

Fixer for an eight-part Belgian documentary series comparing Belgium with different parts of the world called Op Eén. The episode compared housing in Belgium with Hong Kong and Australia, two parts of the world where people live in the smallest and largest homes, and was aired on public Dutch-language TV station Eén. Duties included translating and researching, booking interviewees and transport, and proposing filming locations.

Apr 2016 - Jun 2017

INSTANTER

Sub-editor for a website that covers the Asian loans market. Duties included maintaining the website's database, checking stock exchange announcements, research, calling bankers for updates, and promoting the website at networking events.

Apr 2016

BNN-VARA

Fixer for a six-part documentary on press freedom around the world called The Pen and the Sword. The final episode focused on Hong Kong and was broadcast in May 2016. Duties included research, arranging transport, translating, booking interviewees, and proposing filming locations.

Nov 2015 - Mar 2016

ATV World

Reporter covering local and international stories. Duties included writing and proof-reading scripts, recording and editing video reports, and manning the teleprompter during live television broadcasts.

Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

Hong Kong Free Press

Reporter covering stories such as the case of the protester who was convicted for “assaulting a police officer with her breast”, and the UK government's decision not to grant Chinese artist Ai Weiwei a business visa to the UK. Duties included monitoring social media, editing articles, compiling photo galleries, and promoting the website's crowd-funding campaign.

Dec 2014 - Jan 2015

CNN

Intern reporter for the broadcaster's Hong Kong office writing local and international stories such as reactions to the film The Interview being pulled from cinemas, the case of the girl who was arrested for drawing a chalk flower on a wall near a former Umbrella Movement protest site, and disability discrimination in Hong Kong.

Oct 2014 - Nov 2014

MSNBC

Freelance producer on a documentary about Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement, which featured profiles of six protestors. My segment was about a protester who was frustrated the movement had reached a stalemate and called for radical action. It was awarded the grand student prize at the 2015 Human Rights Awards in Hong Kong.

Jul 2013 - Aug 2014

PoliticsHome

POLITICSHOME DEC 2012 – MAR 2013, JUL 2013 – AUG 2014 Intern and later reporter for a British politics news site. Duties included discussing top stories of the day with the editor, compiling the daily email briefings, and monitoring parliamentary debates and hearings.