Patrick Elliot

Coming soon.

August 2020 – Present
Freelance
Investigative Journalist/Researcher

• Pitched an investigation proposal to The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, which ultimately resulted in bylines with both TBIJ and Daily Beast.
• Independently working on other investigations—Byline Times has just commissioned a series—while seeking full time employment.
• Most recently: paid research for a forthcoming book about QAnon, written by Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, James Ball.

June 2019 – August 2020
Clover Films
Development Producer

• Started with a short video editing gig and impressed them enough to be offered an internship. Entrusted with a wide range of responsibilities from day one, which enabled me to develop and strengthen a variety of skills: from filming and editing to researching and writing treatments.
• Played a vital role behind the scenes for first TV credit, on ITV’s Exposure: Britain’s Hidden Hunger. This included the preparation of research briefings, on topics including child malnutrition and the roll-out of Universal Credit. Spent the best part of six weeks in food banks across Slough, interviewing service users in search of possible contributors.
• Offered a full-time job after 6 months and promoted to development producer for subsequent projects, including Believe Me - The Cyprus Rape Case, also on ITV. Spent more than a month on-and-off in Cyprus, filming behind the scenes with the victim and her mother – oftentimes working solo – including throughout the festive and new year’s period.
• Following that, took the lead in developing and producing three out of six episodes in a recent Al Jazeera series, looking at The Fans Who Make Football. Co-directed and co-shot one episode in Hamburg about the fans of FC St Pauli.
• Left on good terms (due to pandemic) having acquired the skills to confidently self-shoot and edit video. [See my full TV credits here.]

July – November 2018
Krowd9
Assistant Product Manager

• Fluid role – ranging from customer support and app testing, to assisting developers and co-managing social channels.

October 2016 – September 2017
Alice House, West Hampstead
Bartender/Runner

November 2015 – August 2016
Ark Elvin Academy
Learning Support Assistant and Cover Teacher

August – October 2015
Stockley Academy
Teacher of English (Teach First)

2017 – 2019
MA Investigative Journalism (Merit)
City, University of London

2012 – 2015
BA English Literature with Creative Writing (2:1)
University of East Anglia