Hello

I specialise in international news and investigations in the form of narrative podcasts, tv news, and radio docs for the likes of the The Economist, the BBC, Channel 4 News, and the ABC as both a reporter and producer.

Recently, I’ve been working on a run of documentary podcasts for The Economist and doing a little writing for 1843 magazine. Before that, an investigation into the abuse of Interpol’s red notice system in the form of a podcast series for Sky News. I freelance regularly for Channel 4 News where I spent a year as a foreign news producer, and another with the investigations team. I learned SQL for this data-led investigation into the 2016 Trump campaign database which won an RTS award for technology in journalism and was nominated for a BAFTA. I produced this six part podcast series for BBC Radio 4 about UK troops worst day in Afghanistan, the group of men navigating the aftermath and why the MoD isn’t tracking veteran suicides properly.

This documentary about love and lead pollution in the mining town of Broken Hill is still my favourite thing I’ve ever made.

I’m experienced working in conflict zones, HEFAT trained and handy with both a zoom+mic for audio specific projects, or my lumixs5ii for video. I care about equality in the media industry, and to that end produced a pay transparency project for the UK Audio Network.

Want to collaborate? Let’s talk >>

Contact

email me: heidi.pett (at) gmail.com // heidi.pett (at) protonmail.com

find me on twitter: @heidipett