Sam Riley is an NCTJ-accredited journalist. Since finishing his training at Cardiff University last year, he has joined the Newsquest team as a reporter for London Now, covering Havering, Barking and Dagenham, Redbridge, Newham, Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets, Hackney, Haringey, Enfield, City of London, Islington alongside the Greater London Authority, Politics, Tottenham Hotspur and Royal Mail. Outside the newsroom, Sam is a pop-culture fanatic, avid Swiftie and lives life under the watchful eye of two very opinionated cats.