Anthony Barnes Email & Phone Number

Freelance PR/media relations work, mainly at UNISON.

• Senior communications and media relations role at thriving London university (maternity cover)
• Leading on media relations, proactively and reactively, to manage the College’s profile in national, education sector and local media; publicising the College’s research to promote Birkbeck as a centre of academic.
• Handling crisis communications to advise senior figures on reputation challenges and head off potential problems
• Overseeing and coordinating digital communication assets such as news, blogs, images, video and audio content online for the Birkbeck website and also creating material for key events during the year such as clearing.
• Managing stakeholder communications for a diverse range of audiences including staff, current and prospective students, alumni, media and the wider academic community
• Liaising with college policy advisor and senior staff for lobbying work to position the university correctly and add the College’s voice to national issues and inform key influencers

• Press office/media relations at public service union UNISON for six months – handling and placing national news stories, ghostwriting material, handling internal stakeholders in busy complex environment across many.
• Consultancy work for leading PR agencies, refining and shaping press materials, ghost-writing, survey analysis; senior consultant for Taylor Herring and other regular clients include Dawbell, Outside Organisation, LD.
• Acting production editor/sub-editor for monthly music magazine Record Collector magazine (using InDesign) published by Metropolis; various writing commissions and shifts for national newspapers; writing tour programme.

• Communications and PR lead for music sector trade/lobbying body
• Reporting directly to the CEO, guiding communications output and media strategy, preparing press releases, comment pieces and news responses; ensuring proactive approach, identifying suitable opportunities to be part.
• Stakeholder management of member organisations, external partners and key bodies to present cohesive message; managing communications officer; running UK Music website and social media presence
• Preparing relevant papers and presentations to company board meetings; chairing and overseeing committee of member organisations’ comms representatives; attending internal member committees and representing UK Music at.
• Handling communications for the UK Music-administered All-Party Parliamentary Group On Music; exploring new opportunities to raise profile of UK Music through wider music industry and political engagement
• Managing publication of UK Music research projects, including annual reports; organising media opportunities for other members of the UK Music team; liaising with external organisations on initiatives to benefit the.

• Led team of reporters to deliver well-written, accurate, authoritative page-ready news stories to an extensive network of print, online and broadcast customers; material read daily by millions of people worldwide
• Managed and coordinated staffing and coverage for major breaking news stories
• Advised PR and communications contacts how best to handle a story to maximise impact and effect
• News generation including effective use of social media sources, and analysis of data and statistics
• Specialised in writing about all aspects of music, TV and radio, as well as film, theatre, visual arts
• Maintained large network of contacts including broadcasting and music executives; effectively managing relationships

• Led online operation for leading music magazine and radio station
• Generated content, as well as designing and photo editing
• Drove online traffic – commissioning video, working with archive material, creating micro-sites to sync with new issues
• Identified and developed PR opportunities for the website, radio station and magazine
• Coordinated planning and online activity for annual Q Awards and extensive Glastonbury coverage
• Wrote weekly newsletter for online reader database

London, United Kingdom

• Ran website for national radio station theJazz, sister station to Classic FM, from the project management stage
• Launched, edited and managed the site, creating all copy - news stories, features, glossaries, artist directories
• Created press and PR coverage for station, securing broadsheet, tabloid and trade publication coverage
• Managed strategic alignment of brand, web and audio content
• Edited audio content for streaming and download
• Liaison with public and jazz community

London, United Kingdom

• Generated, researched and wrote news stories, features and profiles in the culture/media field for national newspaper
• Shortlisted for showbusiness reporter of the year at the British Press Awards 2006
• Commissioned writers
• Edited and refined copy by other reporters
• Regular night news editor dealing with all late-breaking stories
• Managed broad network of contacts in music, radio, TV, theatre and film

(Left to travel)

Bachelor Of Laws (Llb), Law

Activities and Societies: University ents teamCommunications officer, Student Union ents

Nctj Pre-Entry Journalism, Journalism