Sallie Phillips
Sallie Phillips reports for the South Wales Argus on health and people-focused stories, linking medical issues, local services and community life through individual experiences. Her coverage stands out for the way it uses one person’s story, or one organisation’s change, to explain wider questions about health, care and inclusion. She also works across other titles in the same group, using AI tools to support reporting and production across the portfolio.
Human stories behind health challenges
Phillips’ health coverage centres on detailed case studies that show what a diagnosis means for a person’s day-to-day life. In her feature on a 67-year-old who feared losing a limb before putting her diabetes into remission, she makes the medical risk tangible by focusing on one patient’s journey and the turning point that changed their prognosis. The piece keeps clinical language in the background and foregrounds emotion, action and outcome, making complex health issues easier to grasp for a general audience. Her style in this area is straightforward and compassionate, designed to show how decisions about lifestyle, treatment and support play out over time for an individual rather than in abstract terms.
Community events and inclusion
Alongside health case studies, Phillips reports on community events that touch on identity and inclusion, such as Pride in the Port’s return to the city centre in 2023. That coverage places the event within a wider timeline, showing how local LGBTQ+ celebrations evolve and how their location and format matter to the people who attend. She treats these events as part of the social fabric rather than as stand-alone spectacles, connecting them to ongoing efforts to recognise and support LGBTQ+ communities. The same attention to context and continuity that underpins her health writing is visible here, with an emphasis on how public spaces and gatherings contribute to wellbeing and visibility.
Local services and life events
Phillips also writes about local services linked to care and bereavement, such as the sale of a long-running family funeral directors after the owners’ retirement. In that story she traces the history of the business and its decision to go on the market, framing it as a change in how end-of-life services are provided and who is responsible for them in the community. The piece balances business detail with the emotional weight of a firm that has handled sensitive moments for many families over the years. By covering these transitions, she shows how shifts in ownership, service provision and local institutions intersect with health, ageing and loss.
Digital sourcing and AI expansion work
Beyond individual articles, Phillips’ role includes helping expand the use of AI tools across multiple titles in the same publishing group, including the South Wales Argus and the Western Telegraph. She describes herself as an AI expansion reporter, focusing on integrating AI into tasks such as information gathering, workflow support and story production while maintaining editorial standards. Her public calls for contributions show that she combines these tools with direct outreach, asking residents affected by major events to share their experiences for news coverage. This mix of AI-enabled efficiency and traditional community sourcing shapes a reporting approach that remains rooted in human voices, even as it adopts new technology.
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Alex Storey
Alex Storey is a journalist at LBC whose work is driven by specific cases that test professional conduct and accountability in health and the public sector. He covers health as his main beat, focusing on the point where individual decisions by clinicians or officials meet public trust in institutions. His reporting is incident-first and case-led, using concrete episodes to show how rules, ethics and policy work in real life. Recent pieces include a disciplinary case where a nurse was struck off after linking a patient’s cancer to Covid jabs, and coverage of civil servants being “paid to play Grand Theft Auto” as “lived experience” training. Across these stories, he examines how professionals, regulators and officials explain their decisions, and what that reveals about trust, responsibility and the standards expected of people in positions of authority.
Alexandra Thompson
Alexandra Thompson is an assistant news editor focused on health who treats health claims as hypotheses to be tested rather than messages to be repeated. She works at New Scientist, combining editing with frontline reporting on ageing brains, cognitive health, chronic illness, contested treatments and infectious disease. Her beat centres on how neuroscience and psychology intersect with everyday health choices and on how scientific findings translate into real-world outcomes for people living with illness. She examines lifestyle advice, rehabilitation programmes and outbreak guidance against current evidence, clarifying risk without overstating it and giving space to controversy without sensationalising it. Alongside written news she appears in audio and video formats, bringing the same clear, news-driven approach to live discussions and helping shape the daily health agenda while keeping a tight focus on evidence and impact.
Alice Wilkinson
Alice Wilkinson investigates how everyday habits, products and routines shape sleep and long-term wellbeing, using test-driven health features to separate hype from real benefit. She holds a senior role on The Telegraph’s health features team, writing and shaping consumer-focused coverage that blends personal trial with clear expert evidence. Her core beat is sleep as a practical, solvable part of daily life, from detailed comparisons of magnesium supplements to service pieces on how sleeping position affects health over time. She treats supplements as a crowded, over-claimed market that demands careful testing and clear-eyed reporting. Alongside long-form features she writes weekly health desk dispatches on sleep, stress and concentration. Across her work she combines substantial self-testing, specialist insight and plain, unfussy prose to give readers measurable, realistic changes they can make.
Ally Head
Ally Head connects performance-focused fitness reporting with women’s health, sustainability and relationships, using her own endurance training and health history to stress-test trends against expert guidance. She is Senior Health, Sustainability and Relationships Editor at Marie Claire UK, where she shapes the health agenda across training, wellbeing and conscious living and writes and commissions news, topical features and SEO-led long-form pieces. A ten-time marathoner and Boston-qualifying runner, she focuses on structured, realistic training plans, strength and conditioning for women who run, and performance longevity. Her women’s health work centres on hormones, chronic conditions and fact versus fiction wellness claims. She also covers sustainability as conscious living and relationships, mental resilience and lifestyle features, favouring plain language, lived experience, specialist commentary and clear, repeatable routines. She has previously produced similar content for Women’s Health, Stylist, Glamour and Grazia.