Experience

ConnectLocal

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant editor at JPIMedia

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  Helping to hone print brands to a wide audience. Helping to hone print brands to a wide audience.



JPIMedia

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Commercial content editor

  • Jun 2019 - Mar 2021

  Working with teams on titles including Peterborough Telegraph, Northampton Chronicle and Echo, Milton Keynes Citizen, Northamptonshire Telegraph, Bedford Times and Citizen, Luton News and a host of weeklies with fast-growing websites across 11 counties. Working with teams on titles including Peterborough Telegraph, Northampton Chronicle and Echo, Milton Keynes Citizen, Northamptonshire Telegraph, Bedford Times and Citizen, Luton News and a host of weeklies with fast-growing websites across 11 counties.



Johnston Press and Iliffe Media

• Bury St Edmunds and Stamford

• Group editor

  • Apr 2015 - Sep 2018

  Editorial head of the Anglia series of newspapers, comprising: Lynn News (Tuesday and Friday), Fenland Citizen, Bury Free Press, Haverhill Echo, Newmarket Journal, Diss Express and Suffolk Free Press. Then relocated after acquisition by Iliffe Media to be group editor of Iliffe Media North titles including: Stamford and Rutland Mercury, Rutland Times, Grantham Journal, Spalding Guardian, Lincs Free Press, Lynn News (Tuesday and Friday editions), Bourne Local and Fenland Citizen. Mission: Growth. Mission: Achieved. Show less



Johnston Press

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Group editor, Johnston Press, and editor, Grantham Journal and Melton Times

  • Apr 2012 - Apr 2015

  Editor of the paid-for weeklies Grantham Journal and Melton Times and the associated websites and social media accounts and other content activities to attract and retain audience. Also Lincolnshire group editor with responsibility for newspapers and online content in the portfolio (not including editions) which included: Boston Standard, Sleaford Standard, Louth Leader, Horncastle News, Market Rasen Mail and Skegness Standard. Wide (domestic) geographical responsibility achieved. Editor of the paid-for weeklies Grantham Journal and Melton Times and the associated websites and social media accounts and other content activities to attract and retain audience. Also Lincolnshire group editor with responsibility for newspapers and online content in the portfolio (not including editions) which included: Boston Standard, Sleaford Standard, Louth Leader, Horncastle News, Market Rasen Mail and Skegness Standard. Wide (domestic) geographical responsibility achieved.



Archant

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Editorial director, Archant Herts and Cambs

  • 2008 - 2011

  Responsible for editorial and all non-advertising content, staff and development of all brands, both in print and online, across Archant Herts and Cambs. Territory also covers Peterborough, Cambridge, parts of South Lincolnshire, West Norfolk, Bedfordshire and Essex. Brands include: Hunts Post, Cambs Times/Wisbech Standard, Cambridge Agenda, The Comet series, Welwyn and Hatfield Times, Herts Advertiser, plus a number of magazines, including: Health 24, Four Seasons, Wedding Days and Making the Right Choice for Education. All have print and extensive online presences.* Lead the successful pilot for the new company-wide content management system;* Introduction of new on-line photo-ordering service: MyPhotos24;* EDF Eastern Region awards produced more than 5 short-listed entries from Herts and Cambs every year and seven overall winners;* Integrated acquired Explorer magazine into portfolio;* Lead Cambridge First launch process and team;* Consultant to team closing Heralds series to re-launch as The Scene series;* Re-launch Welwyn Hatfield Times with newspaper sales rising 4%;* Grow online presence through enhanced SEO work and guiding proactive usage of Facebook and Twitter to grow Unique Visitors more than 30% in each of the last two years, plus increased PIs through use of pictures, videos, links, polls and other good practice Show less

• Publisher

  • 2003 - 2008

  Responsible for all business activities - including setting and beating budgets, strategy, editorial, advertising, marketing, training, health and safety, staff development and recruitment, HR, internal and external communications and general management - across the Cambridgeshire business unit. Produced record profits which have not been matched since and a return on investment ratio way ahead of industry averages. Ambitious personal agenda...pleased with results, but not satisfied; we can find ways of being even better. Show less



The Hunts Post

• Managing editor, West, and editor, The Hunts Post

  • 1995 - 2005

  Editor of The Hunts Post, the weekly county newspaper for Huntingdonshire, which was voted by the Newspaper Society the best free weekly newspaper in the UK three times and won many other regional and local awards for its design, performance and journalism. For some time, this predominantly free title was one of the top ten titles in the UK for consistently increasing its paid-for sale. I was also managing editor of three other paid-for weekly newspapers in Cambridgeshire and had input into the West edition of the Eastern Daily Press, the biggest-selling regional morning newspaper in England. Show less



Northampton Herald

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing

• Managing editor

  • 1993 - 1995

  Editor of seven-edition series of weekly newspapers, plus various magazines, smothering Northamptonshire with superb, relevant editorial content. Editor of seven-edition series of weekly newspapers, plus various magazines, smothering Northamptonshire with superb, relevant editorial content.



Northern Echo

• Darlington

• Sports editor

  • 1992 - 1993

  Sports editor of the "Great Daily of the North". Sports editor of the "Great Daily of the North".



EMAP magazines

• Editor and other roles with EMAP magazines and newspapers

  • 1985 - 1992

  Joined Angling Times - the world's biggest-selling fishing newspaper - as a sub editor . Promoted to news editor. Moved to become deputy editor of Garden News before securing my first national magazine editorship with Today's Runner. Later became editor-in-chief of Today's Runner and the athletes' "bible" Athletics Weekly. Joined Angling Times - the world's biggest-selling fishing newspaper - as a sub editor . Promoted to news editor. Moved to become deputy editor of Garden News before securing my first national magazine editorship with Today's Runner. Later became editor-in-chief of Today's Runner and the athletes' "bible" Athletics Weekly.