BROADCAST

The Guardian

(In Production) Dir/Producer – Guardian documentaries  - META documentary, set for release May 2025.

Director/Producer/Reporter: “The Trap” Guardian Films,  Current affairs documentary and immersive feature investigation, Modern Slavery Project, Guardian Global Development, June 2018. Nominated Best Investigative Documentary, DIG Awards, Amnesty Media Awards, Anti-Slavery Awards (2018/2019)

Director/Producer: Guardian Films – Hien and the Cannabis Trade in the UK (doc short with print investigation), Modern Slavery Project, Guardian Global Development, May 2015

Al Jazeera English

People & Power Investigative Documentary Series

•       Director/Producer: Al-Jazeera English, People & Power, The Great Olympic Greenwash (25:00), TX June 20, 2012

•       Director/Producer: Al-Jazeera English, People & Power, Children of the Cannabis Trade (25:00), TX July/ August 2011, Award for Best Investigative Piece, Anti-Slavery Awards, London UK, October 2011

•       Field Producer:(UK Segment) Al-Jazeera English, Special Programs, Doha, Libya: State of Terror (22:30), TX February 2011

•       Producer/Reporter: Al-Jazeera English, People & Power, Programs, State of Denial: Madagascar (22:30), TX August 2010

•       AP/Researcher: Boeing – On a Wing and a Prayer (22:30), December 2010, Highly Commended, Association of International Broadcasters, November 2011

•       AP/ Researcher: North Korea, Dirty Little Secrets (22:30), April 2010

•       AP/ Researcher: Haiti: Hope Among the Rubble (22:30), February 2010

Earthrise Environmental Series

•       Presenter/Producer: Saving Britain’s Pearls (5:00) – May 2011

•       Presenter/Producer: Conserving Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest (12:00) – November 2011

Voiceover Work

People & Power 1 x 25 min docs:

• The Great Olympic Greenwash 06/2012

• Children of the Cannabis Trade – 08/2011

• The Indignant – 06 /2011
• Chasing Mladic – 06 /2011
• Mexico’s Next Oil Disaster- 04/2011

• Madagascar: State of Denial – 08/ 2010

Earthrise 1 x 5 min:

• Saving Britain’s Pearls – 05/ 2011
• Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest – 11/2011

Empire 1x 5 min:

• US and Iran – The Best of Enemies? Sanctions- 05/2010

Broadcast Producer / Field Producer

CNN International, Turner House, Great Marlborough Street, London, W1, Sept 2009 - December 2009

This role involved producing packages, booking guests for live broadcasts and working with newsgathering to generate content for CNNI news programmes, including the prime-time (9 pm BST/GMT) current affairs programme Connect the World. Duties also include working with the executive editor and planning supervisor on long-term projects including theme weeks, and researching and pitching editorial ideas to the newsroom teams. The role also includes handling all aspects of booking, writing and producing guest segments as well as selecting a diversity of viewpoints from newsmakers, journalists and analysts.

Broadcast Series Researcher/AP

Unreported World, Channel 4, Quicksilver Media, 60 St Aldate’s, Oxford, OX1, http://www.quicksilvermedia.tv/, Jan - Aug 2009

Unreported World is Channel 4’s flagship current affairs programme produced by Quicksilver Media. This long-term placement involved television research and production, including investigating stories, pitching ideas to the Channel 4 commissioning editor, interviewing journalists, NGOs, governmental bodies and expert authorities on subject content, as well as fact-checking and writing sequences and story treatments.

Credits:

Researcher, AP: “Bushknives and Black Magic”, Presenter: Ramita Navai, 2009 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fVcbYGEQOc

Researcher, AP: “Waiting for the Taliban”, Presenter: Peter Oborne, 2009 https://www.quicksilvermedia.tv/productions/afghanistan-waiting-for-the-taliban

Researcher, AP: “China and North Korea: The Great Escape”, Presenter: Oliver Steeds, 2009 https://www.quicksilvermedia.tv/productions/china-the-great-escape

  AWARDS AND APPEARANCES

• British Journalism Awards shortlist nominee, “How Facebook and Instagram Became Marketplaces for Child Sex Trafficking,” 2023.

• Judge, British Awards in Film and Television – Category - Current Affairs, March 2022

•       Guardian Newspaper, “Top 200 pieces of journalism in 200 years at the Guardian,'“ G200 Recognition, “The Trap”, May 2021

•       US Senate Building, Human Trafficking Briefing, Screening “The Trap”, US Senator, Sherrod Brown, Jan 11, 2018

•       The Story Podcast, The Guardian: “The Trap: “A Tale of Human Trafficking” The Story Podcast: https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2018/aug/17/the-trap-tale-of-human-trafficking-the-story-podcast, July 2018

•       KGNU Radio Metro, Boulder, Denver : “The Trap” Trafficking Women out of US prisons and Jails with Mei-Ling McNamara” http://news.kgnu.org/2018/06/the-trap-trafficking-women-out-of-us-prisons-and-jails/ , June 2018

•       Observer/Guardian “Observer and Guardian Wins Anti-Slavery Awards” https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/oct/18/annie-kelly-mei-ling-mcnamara-award-article-slavery , Oct 2015

•       BBC Scotland segment, “Slavery in Scotland”, Mei-Ling McNamara, September 2015

•       AL Jazeera English interview “Madagascar Coup”, November 2010

•       Best TV Documentary, “Children of the Cannabis Trade”, Al-Jazeera English, Human Trafficking Foundation Media Awards, November 2011 (Producer/Director)

•       Highly Commended, “Boeing – On a Wing and a Prayer”, Al-Jazeera English, Association of International Broadcasters; shortlisted - “Best Historical Documentary”- Grierson Awards, December 2010  (AP/Researcher)