I’m Reuben, a multimedia journalist with a background in design. I’m interested in very big systems, the people shaping them, and the people they shape

Think the migrant workers propping up continental food systems; the local tradeoffs of nation-spanning climate projects; the picayune planning edicts that gum up city housing targets; the individual innovators pushing change in big businesses and organisations

The Desert Grows

A British startup hopes to generate 8% of the U.K.’s electricity from a London-sized renewables development in Southern Morocco. What about the people who live there?

The Desert Grows
photograph: Reuben J. Brown

This year, I’m pursuing these stories in my Master’s of Investigative Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, Arizona State University. I’m also a Steele Fellow at Cronkite’s Reynolds Center for Business Journalism

Before this, I was Digital Editor at The Architectural Review, where I wrote on architecture and politics and worked on cross-platform audience strategy. I graduated from the University of Cambridge, where I was president of the architecture society. I was Production Assistant at The World Around, where I helped to launch the Young Climate Prize, and I worked on TV shoots for BBC Maestro.

Photographs are an integrated part of my practice — and I’ve assisted leading editorial and architectural photographers across shoots for magazines and TV

Haboob Hits Phoenix

On August 25, 2025, a major dust storm hit Phoenix, breaking weeks of dangerous heat with 0-mile visibility, lashing rain, and blackouts.

Haboob Hits Phoenix

Acquedotto del Nottolini

Along its dead-straight line of 400 arches, the environment has been bent, or bent itself, to the aqueduct

Acquedotto del Nottolini

Here are some resume highlights. Or download a full PDF version

Work

Steele Fellow in Investigative Business Journalism

The Reynolds Center

2025–26

Digital Editor

The Architectural Review

2023–25

Production Assistant

BBC Maestro

2023

Production Assistant

The World Around

2022

President

ARCSOC, the University of Cambridge Architecture Society

2022–23

Founder and Co-host

Talking Volumes

2020–22

Skills & Software

Video and Podcast Production

Adobe Premiere, Audition, After Effects, Apple Logic Pro, Final Cut Pro

Graphic Design and Production

Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Autocad, Rhino

Photography

Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop

Content Management and Analytics

WordPress, Google Analytics, Microsoft Excel, Adobe Campaigns, Shopify, Upland Adestra

Web Development

GitHub, VS Code, Claude Code, HTML, CSS, JS

Full U.K. driving license

Education

M.A. Investigative Journalism

Arizona State University

2025–26

B.A. Architecture

University of Cambridge

2020–23

State schools in Brighton, U.K.; nerdy grades

My first gig – at two months old – was a starring role in the for “You Were Right” by Badly Drawn Boy. Watch that here, or contact me for actually serious things below: