Experience

Policing Insight

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

• Editor

  • Feb 2019 - Present

• Associate Editor

  • 2017 - Present



Chestnut Media

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Managing Director

  • Jan 2005 - Present

  Chestnut Media (owned by Munro News Ltd) supplies a range of media services, including advertising sales, social media for business and writing and editing services to private companies and government departments. We work with a range of organisations within the criminal justice sector and beyond.Our current contracts include providing full editorial and advertising sales services to a leading digital magazine in the criminal justice system (www.policinginsight.com) as well as advertising sales to a large staff association (The Police Federation of England and Wales). Our products also include www.allpolicejobs.co.uk, the national UK police recruitment website.



Police National Legal Database

• Contract - Police & Law Insight Editor

  • Sep 2015 - Aug 2017

  Chestnut Media was commissioned to design, create, write and edit Police & Law Insight, a 24-page digital covering police legal issues and politics.



Devon and Cornwall Police

• United Kingdom
• Law Enforcement
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Contract - Editorial services

  • Jan 2014 - Apr 2014

  Chestnut Media undertook a short contract to provide editorial web support services. More recently (2018) we provided editorial services for the Police and Crime Commissioner's Annual Report



Localworld

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

• Contract - Community Digital Publisher

  • 2012 - 2013

  Chestnut Media was contracted to provide copy, photographs and videos reporting on and promoting local communities for a number of Local World websites including, Barnstaple People, Ilfracombe People, Bideford People and Tiverton People. The contract included promoting the websites on social media.



Informa Agra

• France

• Contract - Editor

  • 2007 - 2009

  Chestnut Media provided editorial services, writing and editing Informa Agra's weekly 15-page magazine on agricultural markets in Eastern Europe



Jane's Information Group

• United Kingdom

• Journalist

  • Jan 2000 - Dec 2004

  I worked as a staff reporter, covering stories related to UK crime and policing on Jane's Police Review



The English College, Dubai

• United Arab Emirates
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teacher of History and English

  • Sep 1995 - Jun 1999