Experience

The Times and Sunday Times

• Entertainment
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Content Editor and Social Media Manager

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  Content Writer and Social Media Manager for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award Content Writer and Social Media Manager for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award



The Word Factory Literary Organisation

• Associate Editor

  • Oct 2012 - Present

  Associate editor of the Word Factory, a national organisation for short story excellence. We host literary salons and writing masterclasses Associate editor of the Word Factory, a national organisation for short story excellence. We host literary salons and writing masterclasses



The Arts Council, London Business School, The Guardian, Sotheby's, RA Magazine

• Freelance Journalist, Editor & Copywriter

  • Jun 2018 - Present

  View my select portfolio, below https://www.clippings.me/sophiehaydock View my select portfolio, below https://www.clippings.me/sophiehaydock



Condé Nast

• United States
• Media Production
• 700 & Above Employee

• Copyeditor

  • Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

  Copyeditor at Tatler Copyeditor at Tatler



BBC

• Italy
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Broadcast Journalist

  • Aug 2018 - Jul 2019

  Commissioned content and edited copy for BBC Three Commissioned content and edited copy for BBC Three



The Sunday Times

• Media Production
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Food Writer, Digital Editor & Social Media Manager

  • Aug 2013 - May 2018

  Part of a small team who launched The Dish, the monthly Sunday Times food magazine. - Wrote The Ingredient, a weekly seasonal food column in the Sunday Times Magazine - Worked closely with the restaurant critic AA Gill. Each week, he'd dictate his Table Talk restaurant reviews to me, and I'd transcribe it and read it back to him- Curated the digital output for The Dish, writing original content for the website, compiling, commissioning content for, and sending, the weekly newsletter to Sunday Times subscribers- Coordinated the social media strategy, including a weekly Facebook Live schedule with authors, food journalists and high-profile bloggers

• Sub-editor

  • Sep 2008 - May 2018

  Features sub-editor for The Sunday Times. I was part of a team of sub-editors highly commended in the best subbing team category 2014 for our work on the Sunday Times Magazine.

• Digital production editor

  • Oct 2010 - Oct 2015

  Digital production editor for The Sunday Times, creating each week's issue of the Sunday Times Magazine for the iPad and tablet.



Freelance

• Egypt
• Human Resources
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Journalist

  • Sep 2008 - May 2018

  Freelance journalist, specialising in food, property and the arts. I write for the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Guardian Weekend and Big Issue in the North.

• Editorial proof reader

  • Sep 2012 - Jan 2016

  Editorial proof-reader and copy editor:Occupy London — text and photographs by Ed Thompson (self-published 2012)Back to Black: Cilla, the Authorised Photographic Memoir by Cathy Galvin (published by Evans Mitchell Books, September 2013)Terry O'Neill's Rock 'n' Roll Album, by Terry O'Neill (published by ACC Editions, November 2014)Sex, Sense and Nonsense: Felicity Green on the 1960s Fashion Scene, by Felicity Green (published by ACC Editions October 2014)



Leeds-List.com

• United Kingdom
• Technology, Information and Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Creative editor

  • Feb 2012 - Sep 2012

  Part of a small team who set up an alternative independent online lifestyle magazine when Leeds Guide went into administration. I commissioned content and managed a team of writers. Part of a small team who set up an alternative independent online lifestyle magazine when Leeds Guide went into administration. I commissioned content and managed a team of writers.



Absolutely Fungulous

• Food blogger

  • Oct 2010 - May 2012

  I wrote a regular blog about my love of wild mushrooms and foraging: absolutelyfungulous.blogspot.co.uk I wrote a regular blog about my love of wild mushrooms and foraging: absolutelyfungulous.blogspot.co.uk



The Leeds Guide

• United Kingdom
• Writing and Editing

• Arts editor, web editor and staff writer

  • Oct 2008 - Feb 2012

  Arts editor, web editor and staff writer for the independent listings and lifestyle magazine for Yorkshire. I reviewed restaurants, wrote features (about wild food and foraging) and did interviews. I also wrote copy for Marketing Leeds' Style Guide to Leeds and Yorkshire’s Magnificent Attractions. Arts editor, web editor and staff writer for the independent listings and lifestyle magazine for Yorkshire. I reviewed restaurants, wrote features (about wild food and foraging) and did interviews. I also wrote copy for Marketing Leeds' Style Guide to Leeds and Yorkshire’s Magnificent Attractions.



Oxfam

• United Kingdom
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Contributor

  • May 2006 - Sep 2007

  Opinion-based feature writer for Oxfam's youth website, Generation Why. Opinion-based feature writer for Oxfam's youth website, Generation Why.



Penguin Books Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Work Experience

  • Aug 2006 - Aug 2006

  Two weeks' work experience at Penguin publishers during my undergraduate degree Two weeks' work experience at Penguin publishers during my undergraduate degree