Beth Young Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Deputy editor of Australia's most popular real-life magazine.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Flatplanning and assigning features, ensuring the carefully chosen mix aligns with our brand and our ‘mag with heart’ USP, staying within budget, as well as finding engaging, eye-catching coverlines.
• Managing a team of writers, plus mentoring our deputy features editor, giving constant constructive feedback on copy and performance in regular team catch-ups and one-on-ones.
• Managing copy flow to meet all deadlines, along with successfully overseeing Christmas pull forwards and ‘mini’ pull forwards through the year to edge even more ahead.
• Always being across the content for up to eight issues at one time, and making sure the workflow is efficient across them all.
• Editing copy into tl!’s unique, engaging first-person style, while fact-checking and ensuring legally sound and TGA compliant.
• Using the latest research/focus group insights to drive content, particularly coverline creation.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As features editor of that’s life! Mega Monthly, I take our readers on an emotional journey, providing them with the perfect mix of stories that will make them gasp, cry and laugh - sometimes, all three! Ensure a balance of Aussie/Kiwi content, along with cracking overseas reads that provide brilliant cover lines. Edit copy into tl!’s unique, engaging.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Chased, secured and wrote cover line-worthy features sourced using the news, social media and PRs for Australia’s leading real-life magazine. Interviewed case studies with empathy and compassion. Self-edited copy, ensuring it is clean and legally sound. Secured and wrote exclusive content that sold to local and overseas publications, earning that's life!.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsible for all aspects of production including interviewing, scriptwriting, voiceovers and editing audio. Planned each season to ensure the perfect mix of male, female, local and overseas voices and balance of different types of survival stories. Finding the line in the story, I’d also write press releases, which were picked up around the world. How I.

Sydney, Australia

Chasing and writing quirky, dramatic and heartwarming feature stories for Australia's best selling real-life magazine.

London, United Kingdom

A podcast platform for under 25s to tell their stories and voice their opinions. Honest and refreshing content collected by a team of 250 young journalists from all over the United Kingdom and beyond. www.podium.me

Hackney, London

An oral history project to record memories of Centerprise - a groundbreaking community centre that operated in Hackney, East London from 1971-2012.

Gladstone

Responsible for all content in The Observer's various sections, including Better Business, Pulse and Weekend. Co-ordinated journalists to produce engaging content. Also co-ordinated monthly magazine CQ Industry. As section editor, wrote features for the Weekend insert and also contributed a weekly column. As editor of The Observer's weekly community read.

Gladstone, Queensland

As a journalist for a daily regional newspaper, required to report on all issues affecting this booming community. Main rounds include court reporting, social justice, indigenous issues and sex. Also tasked with feature writing for the Weekend section – mostly human interest pieces.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Involved in all aspects of production for a monthly magazine. Responsible for managing workflow and staff, generating and assigning story ideas, writing feature articles and news pieces on topics covering the gamut of life in Vietnam. Fast-paced environment with minimal resources where organisation, attention to detail and adherence to deadlines was.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Sub-edited English content written by Vietnamese journalists. Rewrote articles as required, while communicating with Vietnamese writers to ensure meaning was maintained. Also wrote feature articles.

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Researched, wrote travel features and sourced photographs for this Vietnamese/English publication.

Sippy Downs, Queensland

Assisted the proprietors to establish this monthly community newspaper. Was responsible for all editorial content.

Kawana, Queensland

Developed public relations plans for clients; wrote press releases and liaised with local media.

Maroochydore, Queensland

Devised story angles, conducted interviews and wrote feature stories for the region’s most widely-read daily newspaper.

Maroochydore, Queensland

Sub-edited and wrote for this national, quarterly kiteboarding magazine with an international subscription base. Travelled to cover some interstate and overseas trips and events.

Maroochydore, Queensland

Wrote feature articles and advertorials for this weekly regional lifestyle magazine.