Hi, I’m Mary Hamilton. I’m a storyteller, news junkie, technophile, zombie herder, coffee drinker and all-round nerd with social skills, who occasionally commits random acts of journalism. I work at the Guardian as SEO subeditor, a job that largely involves being one of the fastest pedants in the country.

I’m also a partner in Serious Business, and I run the UK’s only bespoke portable zombie apocalpypse in the form of Zombie LARP. I am very familiar with the internal workings of various forms of toy gun and have usually formed a plan for escape in the case of zombie invasion within 3 minutes of entering a building.

I used to work for Citywire Money facilitating journalism online, doing SEO, community management, website tinkering and reading the internet.

Before that I wrote for the Eastern Daily Press, Norwich Evening News, North Norfolk News and weekly papers under the Archant umbrella. I ran the Evening News campaign to make Norwich the City of Culture in 2013, and also covered the 21-day Norfolk and Norwich Festival at the same time.

I blog here about online and multimedia journalism, gaming and narrative, and other shiny things that catch my eye. This blog is updated sporadically, but with a sense of excitement.

If you’d like to keep in touch, please leave a comment, say hello on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr or Google, or you can drop me an email at newsmary at that clever Google email system dot com.

Nice to meet you. Let’s build stories.