Leo Schick
Journalist and producer
In brief
I am a freelance journalist and multimedia producer based in London. My work has been in national and international outlets including Audible, BBC, iHeart, The Guardian, DW, The Financial Times and Vice.My aims
I'm particularly keen to work on long-form narrative and investigative projects. I am always looking to build on my storytelling and journalistic skills and learn from others.
I love supporting people in telling their own story particularly if they've never had the opportunity to put it on a pedestal on their own terms.
Since 2021, the bulk of my work has been in audio, and I love it. I'm also multiformat at heart and my first love was video.
On a separate note, I was a finalist in the Whickers RAFA 2022 awards and always keen to chat about developing my project. It recently got supercharged when I came across a stack of letters my grandparents sent to each other when they were refugees during WWII.My skills
I completed City University's MA in investigative journalism and Associated Press' Global News trainee scheme in 2017.
I'm fluent in English and French, and I have some basic (very basic) knowledge of Italian, Mandarin and Tok Pisin. I have a joint degree in history and languages from Oxford, and I've worked as an investigative journalist in tracking illicit financial flows.
I have extensive experience recording and editing audio. I have also scripted, shot and edited video packages for broadcast.My work
I have experience working in a variety of roles across audio, video, photo and print, including as producer, assistant producer, reporter, presenter, recording and mixing engineer and as a sports photographer.
Specific projects include:
Audio: I'm currently working two days a week for the Tax Justice Network, tasked with making season 2 of The Corruption Diaries. I am also working on a multi-episode series for Wondery that I am co-producing and co-hosting. Last year, I worked on Legacy, Derren Brown's Bootcamp, The Greatest Scam Ever Written and British Scandal's Michelle Mone series, among other projects. Before then, I primarily worked on projects for Storyglass, like a long-form investigative series and a branded series for Red Bull. I sound designed this series on recovery from addiction and homelessness, co-produced a BBC World Service series about money, assistant produced on Tan France's Queer Icons, and had various roles via 7digital Creative and ITN Productions, the Financial Times, Chalk and Blade, and others. I presented a show on ResonanceFM from 2013 to 2020 and sound designed the Lovie award-winning Integrate That! I have worked on projects with Feast Collective (as producer) and Campside Media (associate producer).
Video: Last year, I completed a self-shooting producer-director training programme via Screenskills and am working on personal docs projects in my own time.
Between 2017 and 2019, I worked shifts as a video producer at Associated Press in breaking news and on their Middle East features desk. I pitched and shot pieces for Associated Press' video features desk such as this piece, and shot pieces for Candide Gardening and the Jo Cox Foundation. I am really keen to work on investigative pieces for TV.
Print: Weekly features as legal and professional reporter at Property Week, an investigation with On Our Radar into gas flaring in the Niger Delta, as well as many syndicated AP news bylines.
Photo: Photo stories in Vice and The Guardian and also via APImages in a range of media outlets.