British-Canadian journalist, videographer and photographer who spent much of the beginning of his career in Africa, Northcott was a launch producer for BBC Pidgin, the first international news site to serve West Africa's 75 million Pidgin English speakers and the BBC World Service's largest expansion in decades. Northcott, who has worked on video features around the world, embedded with a team of 15 Nigerian and Ghanaian journalists, training them over a number of months with the goal of making BBC Pidgin self-sustainable. But Charlie has also crossed the Atlantic, covering the 2016 U.S. election for the BBC through the then-new medium of Instagram stories.