Journalist and founder of Someone Once Told Me

Mario is a multimedia journalist for the BBC News website and was previously a reporter for two highly respected UK local newspapers. He has travelled to Israel and the West Bank to write about suicide bombers, reported in Sri Lanka following the 2004 Tsunami, investigated prostitution at the London Olympics, interviewed a woman whose father ran part of Auschwitz concentration camp, covered the Maltese referendum on the introduction of divorce and reported on many of the UK’s breaking and hard news stories over the past eight years. In July 2014 he wrote a story about Lego washing up on beaches in Cornwall, which became one of the BBC’s most popular online features of all time. Mario is also the founder of Someone Once Told Me and posts travel photographs at Travelling Lensman.