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Liz Scarff filming in Bangladesh

 

Bringing stories from the frontline to your frontroom.

I love telling stories, and I love the creative use of technology and multimedia to enhance that storytelling.

With over ten years experience working for leading media organisations and NGOs both in the UK and internationally, I work as a social / digital media consultant and multimedia journalist producing cut-through social media / digital strategy, campaigns and multimedia content.

I’m regularly invited to speak on social and digital media – notably with Channel Four’s Lindsay Hilsum for the British Red Cross conference Dispatches from Disaster Zones. And I’m really honored to have been invited onto the judging panel for the 2012 Media Guardian Digital Innovation Awards.

Most recently I devised and implemented an innovative digital campaign, #Passiton, for Save the Children.   We achieved a 27 million reach on twitter, over 200,000 YouTube views and hundreds of bloggers blogging both in the UK and internationally and significant national media coverage. The project has been shortlisted for a Social Buzz Award (winners announced Dec 2011 – wish us luck!).

I also devised and implemented #Blogladesh which was shortlisted for a Media Guardian Digital Innovation Award and awarded PRweek digital campaign of the week as well as an honorable mention in their campaigns of the year.

Liz (left) taking a breather whilst driving across the Sahara desert.

I’ve spent two months on the highest mountain in the world running the digital media campaign for Sir Ranulph Fiennes’ Everest Challenge for Marie Curie Cancer Care: driven 4,000 miles across the Sahara Desert in a Lada for the BBC: travelled up the Karakoram Highway in Pakistan for BBC Top Gear and taken to the high-seas with Greenpeace for The Independent.

Debate Your Plate, a sharp, engaging online magazine, is one of my latest projects. It aims to bring you all the best stories from the food frontline.

First published at the age of nineteen my work has been published and broadcast in over thirteen countries in magazines, newspapers and media organisations that include the BBC, ITN, Channel4.com, The Independent, The Telegraph, Telegraph TV, The Observer, Daily Mirror, ELLE, Marie Claire, Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Saga, FHM, BBC Top Gear and Geographical magazine among many others.

I’ve recently produced short films with Hugh Grant for Marie Curie Cancer Care and Vanessa Redgrave for the Raisa Gorbachev Foundation.

Sony, The London Arts Board, National Lottery Fund, Thuraya Communications, Jessops Photographic and American and Singapore Airlines have all sponsored my work. In 2002 I was highly commended in the prestigious Observer Hodge Award for photographic project, All Girl Rodeo.

My clients range from magazines and newspapers through to leading national NGOs and commercial companies.

What unites them all is that they want to tell a story or communicate an idea or campaign, they want to do it brilliantly and they want to capture the attention and the imagination of their audience.