Experience

Ignition Search Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Features editor/content strategist

  • May 2017 - Present



Salon Business, Community Practitioner, Midwives

• Freelance journalist

  • Jun 2014 - Present

  Currently providing freelance writing and subbing support to titles including Salon Business, Professional Spa & Wellness, Midwives and The Planner while looking for full-time, permanent opportunities. Currently providing freelance writing and subbing support to titles including Salon Business, Professional Spa & Wellness, Midwives and The Planner while looking for full-time, permanent opportunities.



Redactive Media Group

• United Kingdom
• Marketing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance editor

  • Sep 2016 - May 2017



Zinc Media Group

• United Kingdom
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Healthcare portfolio editor

  • Jan 2016 - Sep 2016

  Editing three healthcare titles: Community Practitioner for Unite/CPHVA (monthly); The Pharmacist (quarterly) and Primary Care Today (quarterly).Key tasks:• Planning, commissioning, writing and editing content for the three print magazines• Managing a team of three reporters• Producing multimedia content where possible for the websites: video interviews, blogs and podcasts• Maintaining a strong working relationship with Unite/CPHVA as a valued client• Helping to coordinate events, such as awards and conferences, sourcing speakers/nominees/judges• Attending healthcare sector events and staying abreast of key primary care and public health issues.Highlights:• Taking Community Practitioner from working on a month-to-month basis to being able to plan content several issues in advance• Co-hosting The Pharmacist awards at London's Millennium Gloucester Hotel in June.



Pre-school Learning Alliance

• United Kingdom
• Education Administration Programs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Corporate editor

  • Sep 2014 - Dec 2015

  Editing the monthly membership magazine of this childcare and early education charity.Key tasks:• Sourcing, writing and loading daily news to the website• Commissioning features and subbing to house style• Researching and writing news and features• Conducting interviews with key sector and political figures, including the childcare minister• Managing the charity’s Twitter account• Ad-hoc press office duties.Highlight:• Revised and streamlined the production process of the magazine, including bringing page amends in-house.



Redactive Media Group

• United Kingdom
• Marketing Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant editor, The Planner

  • Apr 2014 - Jun 2014

  Short-term role providing news and feature writing support on this new title for town planners.

• Assistant editor, Vitality and Midwives

  • Jun 2013 - Apr 2014

  Vitality is the member magazine of the British Association of Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology (BABTAC). Midwives is the magazine of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM).Key tasks:• Coordinating production for Vitality• Planning, commissioning, writing content for Vitality• Writing and uploading content to the Midwives website• Representing the magazines at industry events• Managing both magazines’ Twitter accounts• Contributing revenue-generating and cost-saving ideas.Highlight:• Wrote cover feature on beauty beyond the physical and coordinated the cover shoot with survivors of cancer and severe burns.

• Sub-editor, Midwives and Vitality

  • Jun 2012 - Jun 2013

  Key tasks:• Subbing and writing features across both titles • Writing and uploading news and blogs to the website and Midwives’ online forum• Managing social media for both titles• Compiling regular e-newsletters and digital editions of the magazines.Highlight:• Within weeks of joining Redactive as sub-editor, I wrote a cover feature for Midwives – an achievement that quickly established my value to the team.



Cosmetic News

• Freelance journalist

  • Mar 2012 - Jun 2012

  Contributing features on a freelance basis to this trade title for aesthetic medicine practitioners. Contributing features on a freelance basis to this trade title for aesthetic medicine practitioners.



Quartz Business Media

• Information Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Editor

  • Jul 2009 - May 2012

  I gained invaluable editing experience on the leading journal for the international glass manufacturing industry. As editor I saw subscriptions rise, with a £1000 per month revenue increase over budget. I also successfully coordinated a specialist industry conference programme to accompany the magazine’s associated exhibition in Dubai. I gained invaluable editing experience on the leading journal for the international glass manufacturing industry. As editor I saw subscriptions rise, with a £1000 per month revenue increase over budget. I also successfully coordinated a specialist industry conference programme to accompany the magazine’s associated exhibition in Dubai.



dmg world media

• United Kingdom
• Events Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Assistant editor

  • May 2008 - Jul 2009

  As assistant editor, I built my contacts within the industry and interviewed key figures for profile features. I travelled frequently to represent the magazine at exhibitions, conferences and plant visits. I also uploaded daily content to the website.

• Editorial assistant

  • Nov 2007 - May 2008

  On joining the magazine, my main duties were subbing and proofreading copy, writing news and familiarising myself with the industry through research and site visits.



Graphters Ltd

• Editorial assistant

  • Oct 2006 - Oct 2007

  My role at this family-run contract publishing, design and marketing business provided a valuable introduction to magazine publishing. I was responsible for managing a monthly newsletter for the Manchester Airport community, as well as writing travel, beauty and general interest features for inflight publications. I was also introduced to designing and laying out pages and received on-the-job training in Quark and Photoshop. My role at this family-run contract publishing, design and marketing business provided a valuable introduction to magazine publishing. I was responsible for managing a monthly newsletter for the Manchester Airport community, as well as writing travel, beauty and general interest features for inflight publications. I was also introduced to designing and laying out pages and received on-the-job training in Quark and Photoshop.