Experience

Southern Daily Echo

• United Kingdom
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Community Content Editor

  • Jun 2020 - Present

  Overseeing community content in the Southern Daily Echo and at www.dailyecho.co.uk . Platforms include new arrivals, obituaries, Trader of the Week and Pub of the Week.

• Entertainments Editor

  • 2007 - Jun 2020

  The Daily Echo’s well-known and highly-regarded entertainments editor of 13 years, I oversee all entertainments coverage for our website and portfolio of newspapers and magazines. From celebrity interviews to travel features and from quirky news stories to theatre reviews, I regularly turn my hand to writing anything and everything related to the worlds of showbiz, lifestyle and entertainment.

• Chief Reporter

  • 2004 - 2007

  I oversaw all coverage of our patch online and in the Fareham edition of the Daily Echo and managed a team of reporters in one of the paper’s regional offices. Reporting duties included court and council.



Andover Advertiser

• United Kingdom
• Newspaper Publishing

• News Editor

  • 2002 - 2004

  Managed a team of reporters on this regional weekly newspaper. Drove the news agenda. Was responsible for growing the website and gaining readership. Maintained an excellent working relationship with all departments, driving commercial opportunities wherever possible. Maintained news gathering and reporting duties and nurtured readers and contacts, while overseeing various community campaigns. Managed a team of reporters on this regional weekly newspaper. Drove the news agenda. Was responsible for growing the website and gaining readership. Maintained an excellent working relationship with all departments, driving commercial opportunities wherever possible. Maintained news gathering and reporting duties and nurtured readers and contacts, while overseeing various community campaigns.



SALISBURY JOURNAL NEWSPAPERS LIMITED

• United Kingdom

• Trainee Reporter then District Editor

  • 2000 - 2002

  My first newspaper job. A talent for news reporting quickly led to my being given responsibility for coverage in the Forest Journal edition of the Salisbury Journal, covering the New Forest. I worked closely with the news desk, photographers and editors, nurturing readers and contacts. I also subbed the sports pages on occasion. My first newspaper job. A talent for news reporting quickly led to my being given responsibility for coverage in the Forest Journal edition of the Salisbury Journal, covering the New Forest. I worked closely with the news desk, photographers and editors, nurturing readers and contacts. I also subbed the sports pages on occasion.