Photo by Ali Mohamed

Photo by Ali Mohamed

 

Content producer with ten years experience leading creative teams. Telling engaging stories for digital platforms through podcasts, film, photography and more.

Alexia Singh started her career working for Reuters News Agency where she managed picture desks in London, Paris and Singapore through major world events from the death of Pope John Paul and the Iraq War to the 2016 migrant crisis. She worked as an editor on assignments around the globe including the Oscars, the Sydney and London Olympics and major international football championships. As one of Reuters’ top editors she produced photo books, curated exhibitions and worked on award-winning interactive stories.


In 2010 she was appointed Editor-in-Charge of Reuters’ award-winning app and website ‘The Wider Image’, leading a team of editors, writers and photographers to create interactive storytelling on subjects including the financial crisis and climate change. 

Photo by Yonathan Weitzman

Photo by Yonathan Weitzman

 

 She joined Save the Children in 2016 where she directed content gathering for their two-year Search and Rescue operation rescuing immigrants from the Mediterranean Sea. Her role involved producing case stories, design assets, photo essays and films and managing all aspects of film and photo coverage. She went on to produce shoots in Somalia, South Sudan and Bangladesh creating suites of assets for the 2017 Child Hunger Crisis campaign and the Rohingya Refugee Crisis campaign.

While at Save the Children she was commissioned to produce their first ever podcast - an audio drama that she conceived, wrote and directed called ‘Anywhere but Home’.

She is currently combining her love of photography and literature as the Photography Director of ‘A Thousand Word Photos’ and sharing her years of experience with students at the London College of Communications in her role as Senior Lecturer, BA Photojournalism.