Alistair Smith Email & Phone Number

Bromley, England, United Kingdom

Bromley, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Leading a team of editors providing tailored news content for more than 2,000 UK law firms and businesses.• Writing breaking legal and regulatory stories throughout the day for publication online and in customer email alerts to provide insight into how they impact lawyers and their clients.• Creating specific content for a broad range of subscribers across 35 practice area groups, with an in-depth knowledge of audience requirements.• Monitoring government sites and UK and European regulatory bodies to prioritise content and ensure customers are kept up-to-date with the latest developments in their sectors.• Copy editing/proofing articles for accuracy, grammar, punctuation, clarity, flow, style and news value, before approving for publication.• Managing, training and mentoring interns from the Change 100 programme.• Training new editors and offshore suppliers in news selection, writing and editing.Achievements• Developed, piloted and rolled out a programme of ‘enhanced news’—selecting the most significant daily developments for in-depth coverage and adding value by sourcing unique comment from Top 100 law firms and other industry experts.• Edited and published regular special reports on significant emerging issues (including Brexit, emerging technologies and GDPR).• Consulted with internal stakeholders across the business to identify content to hand over to offshore teams, enabling the UK team to increase output of more in-depth, high-value content (including trend reports, enhanced news and news analysis).• Worked with an external tech company to design, test and develop a website monitoring tool to replace an existing system, increasing efficiency and introducing better functionality.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed all stages of the print process from manuscript and typesetting to printing and finishing, requiring complete knowledge of the publishing journey.• Led a books on demand and reprints project, reducing material wastage and increasing cost efficiency.• Developed, tested and rolled out new content management system.• Negotiated product turnarounds, rates, deliveries and changes to schedules with external suppliers.• Estimated production costs of hard copy products.• Liaised regularly with departments across the business including online and print editorial, content acquisition and technical development teams.• Created process documents and established best practice, and communicated changes to stakeholders across the company.