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Experience
Journalist, editor (owner)
@PlainText
Feature writing (journalism). Copy-editing, substantive editing, editing English as a foreign language, consultancy (editorial), copywriting, house styles, on-screen editing, on-screen proofreading, project management, rewriting, speech-writing, translating (French into English), web page/site editing, etc.

Media covered: books, company literature, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, online materials, press releases, websites etc.
Dates
Mar. 2005 - Present
Journalist, co-owner
@Inside the M60
Independent local news for Manchester
Fields
Journalist, editor
Dates
Apr. 2010 - Apr. 2011
Website
http://insidethem60.journallocal.co.uk/
Journalist
@BBC Radio Manchester
Generating feature ideas for Heather Stott show, pre-interviewing guests, writing cues etc.
Developing news leads for Beswick at Breakfast, making packages. Responsible for coordinating coverage of 20th anniversary of the Strangeways riot, including the scoop of Lord Woolf talking exclusively to Radio Manchester on his role in the inquiry and report on prison reform proposals.
Dates
Jan. 2010 - Apr. 2010
Financial Editor
@ING Financial Markets
As financial editor, I was responsible for fast and accurate editing of equity analysis reports on a daily basis, working with equity analysts based in more than eight European countries. Reports ranged in size from 1 to 90 pages and covered a huge range of industry sectors.
Dates
Aug. 2001 - Feb. 2004
Communications Officer
@European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam
Responsible for producing the ECF newsletter three times a year (commissioning, writing, editing, overseeing production), writing and editing the annual report, providing in-house editorial services, writing company literature (brochures, web copy etc).
Dates
Mar. 1996 - Aug. 2001
Freelance subeditor
@Various
Freelance subeditor at various consumer and trade magazines (inc. Auto Express, Screen International, The Journalist, Campaign, Best, Media Week).
Dates
Jan. 1990 - Oct. 1991
Editor
@The Public Ledger
Editor of the UK's oldest daily newspaper (commodities).
Dates
1989 - 1989
Education
BA Ord
@Bretton Hall, University of Leeds
Fields
English, English and Inter-arts
Location
Bretton, West Yorks
Dates
1984 - 1988