A professional and highly versatile digital and print journalist, copywriter, writer and editor with wide-ranging senior experience across many media fields including leisure, lifestyle, travel, entertainment, sports, news and features, in senior digital, online, mobile and print media roles for the nationals in Fleet Street and at local levels.I have worked as a full-time journalist, writer, copywriter and editor within the digital media sphere in the UK since the infancy of the internet in the mid-1990s. I am proficient in using CMSs such as Sitecore, online image libraries, Photoshop, plus writing, editing and optimising content for bespoke web and mobile audiences, with user experience, stakeholder liaison and management, commercial imperatives, usability, SEO and search in mind. 2015-present: Regular freelance copywriting and editorial commissions for a variety of organisations, businesses, publishers and digital platforms. These include feature writing and copywriting, book editing and writing projects, content marketing, commercial and business editorial projects, plus consumer-focused content creation and maintenance of original, authentic, effective and engaging multi-platform B2B and B2C social media output, news and PR contracts.Contracted for regular and highly-varied digital editorial content commissions for companies such as London’s award-winning BRIDGE (Partnership Experts for Brands and Entertainment), Knoziz record label, Mediacells digital/social fan engagement analysts, Saga Publishing and Saga Group, City business management strategists Chaucer, Cybershed Technology, JustFix, The Dorset Meat Company, Oxford’s Evergreen Digital Agency, London’s Keystone property, hospitality and recruitment group, MW Amusements, property group Heritage Developments, global logistics and ecommerce consultancy Certis24, the Bluffer’s Guide books, Pure Life Homecare, digital aggregator Magvault, City business consultants Orcan Intelligence and many more.

2006-2015: Online Editor at holidays, leisure and insurance group Saga. Working across the group and with a primary focus on Saga Publishing/Saga Magazine, I edited, wrote, commissioned and oversaw digital editorial output for saga.co.uk, while working in tandem with the print magazine, the UK’s biggest-selling subscription magazine.

2002-2006: Editorial Director of London’s Editorial & Picture Services (edpic) digital media agency, launched with two former Reuters and Express Newspapers colleagues. We were very early to the game in providing bespoke daily mobile and online content, with a heavy focus on leisure and entertainment, for a wide range of web and mobile clients.

1998-2002: Joined Express Newspapers as Deputy Editor of its sports website, and then became Deputy Editor of its daily news and entertainment websites, managing and recruiting a team of journalists, designers and developers.

1995-1998: Joined Reuters international news agency in London, and was appointed Deputy Editor and then promoted to Editor of Reuters Cityscreen - the UK’s first daily news, entertainment and sports website.

1992-1995: Launched journalism career as a newspaper reporter, and was then promoted to Sports Editor of the Kent Messenger Group's East Kent Mercury newspaper.