I work on the Money, Work & Tech desk at BBC News, where I cover everything money-related, from breaking news on budget days to longer-term investigations into high insolvency rates. Most of my stories involve collaborating with reporters across the newsroom, but I also work on solo projects, some of which were heavily featured on various TV programmes and got up to 6m+ views on the website. I have also built and maintain an R library to easily and reliably produce business charts for online and broadcast.

I teach an introductory Data Journalism class to postgraduate students.

My team's remit expanded to include around 20 B2B websites within the media division of GlobalData, a sister company of the New Statesman. Shortly after, I was promoted to Data Projects Editor, leading a small team of dataviz developers and overseeing the production of award-winning data-led visual projects. To improve coverage on the B2B websites, I wrote an R library that produced hundreds of automated data-led articles and charts. I was also deputy head of the 15+ data journalism team at the New Statesman and GlobalData.

I wrote data-led stories about British politics, urbanism, renewable energy, foreign direct investment, media, technology and many other topics for the New Statesman and its sister publications. I worked with other reporters (data and non-data) and developers to create high-impact stories that were picked up by bigger publications. My last big project, for example, was the second most-read article on the website for the previous year.

I started my first paid journalism job in 2010, at age 16, when I co-founded Privesc.Eu, a Moldovan media startup that broadcasted live from press conferences and other public interest events. I went on to work as a reporter for non-profit Moldova.org, eventually founding and running the commercial arm of the newsroom. After I graduated from City University, I started my first data job at dataviz agency infogr8, where I helped companies like Spotify, Billboard, Oracle and Mars present their data in the best way possible. I briefly took a fixed-term contract with property portal Zoopla, working with their data analytics team to uncover insights about homeownership and renting.

MA in Business and Financial Journalism (London)
MA in Journalism, Media and Globalisation (Aarhus)

MA in Contemporary Philosophies (Chișinău)
Bachelor in Philosophy (Chișinău)