About
Hi there,
My experience is TV news heavy, however I also have great experience Producing network entertainment, documentaries, and am former Director of Development for a production company here in LA. I'm a great field producer, interviewer, fixer, booker and story producer. My skills as a 'make it happener' are transferable to all Production work.
I was one of the Producers working on BBC Panorama's 'Weinstein: The Inside Story': http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tnnzv
I've lived in LA for 5 years and have great resources and contacts to call on here.
Since gaining my Broadcast Journalism diploma from City University, I've freelanced as a BBC Producer for over ten years, starting with the News Channel in ‘07 then with BBC Breakfast for 5 years. I then began freelancing out of the Los Angeles bureau in 2014, producing for Alastair Leithead, and produced all of his missing flight MH370 packages out of Kuala Lumpur among others (image of us working in KL attached, and links to examples of my Produced packages below).
Sensitive content -- I have good experience working with and interviewing LA gangs, Bloods and Crips, LAPD ride alongs, rape victims, mourning family members of missing MH370 passengers and have negotiated, secured and made the most of some very sensitive interviewees.
I was the sole Producer for all the below packages, setting up, booking, field producing and producing the edit:
This is a feature piece for Sky News. I gained us access to the Bloods and Crips including an unlikely friendship between 2 affiliated members who were ex gang bangers: http://news.sky.com/story/1416260/la-gangs-join-forces-in-fight-against-killings
I field produced all of Alastair Leithead’s MH370 missing plane packages from Kuala Lumper for BBC News. This one includes an interview with a family member of a missing passenger along with our exclusive with the airline CEO:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26727742
I was the reporter as well as producer and script writer for these
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-latin-america-25602239/panama-canal-expansion-spain-steps-in-to-negotiations
Reporting on the Emmys for TRT World:
https://youtu.be/KX-Ai0r4cMM
A show I co-developed as Executive Producer:
https://vimeo.com/267741090/a9dd16c0d2
REFERENCES:
Robert Penfold, Bureau Chief,
Channel Nine Australia
"As a Producer, for everything from news to major documentary features she is second to none."
PETER MARKHAM
Assistant Editor, BBC Breakfast TV
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"I worked as Susannah's line Manager for several years at BBC Breakfast until recently. I found Susannah to be totally dependable and trustworthy. She is a delightful person to be around, kind and thoughtful. Susannah radiates positivity and has a great sense of humour. She's fun, charming and highly intelligent. I found her to be one of the most creative and imaginative Producers I have had the pleasure to work with."
Reporters I've produced out on the field since moving to LA, all happy to be contacted for references. I've also included links to some of the stories I Produced for each:
ALASTAIR LEITHEAD
BBC Africa Correspondent
Kenya office: +254 (0)20 227 6000
Kenya mobile: + 254 (0) 729 324 090
UK mobile: +44 7711 910855
SA mobile: +27 79 249 2373
One of our MH370 packages including an interview with a family member of a missing passenger along with our exclusive with the airline CEO:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-26727742
Cannabis oil, a cure for Cancer?:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nccrA8oz0Qc
Whales in captivity:
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-31541087/documentary-sparks-us-debate-on-whales-in-captivity
DAVID WILLIS
BBC LA Bureau Freelance Correspondent
+12133059044 / x
Spacecraft crash in California's Mojave Desert:
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-29875040/virgin-galactic-spaceshiptwo-on-the-ground-at-crash-site
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-29864533
GREG MILAM
Sky News West Coast America Correspondent
+12027448035 / x
I gained us access to the Bloods and Crips including one unlikely friendship between 2 affiliated members who were ex gang bangers:
http://news.sky.com/story/1416260/la-gangs-join-forces-in-fight-against-killings
ZAINIB NASEER (travelled to cover 2011 Coachella together for BBC 6 and worked together since 2007)
BBC Director now at NBC
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Please don't hesitate to call me with any questions: +13105626231
Thank you,
Susannah
