I teach Multimedia Journalism at Manchester Metropolitan University and before that I was a news journalist at BBC World Service radio for 15 years. I founded and co-organise Hacks/Hackers Manchester and ran a Code Club at my local primary school. I’m fascinated by the intersection between technology and journalism and have contributed a chapter on computational journalism to the book, Data Journalism: Mapping the Future (2013) edited by John Mair and Richard Lance Keeble.