Craig Ritchie Email & Phone Number

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Winner of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations's 2022 Hamp Hamilton Award for Scotland's Outstanding Young Communicator

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Glasgow, United Kingdom

This role had a major focus on media relations and the preparation of press materials, including: press releases, thought leadership, feature articles, fact sheets, pitches, and proposals across a number ofindustries for a portfolio of vastly differing clients.Duties also included successful organisation and management of press calls which achieved.

Paisley Daily Express - Glasgow, United Kingdom

As sports editor of the Paisley Daily Express, Craig was responsible for producing four pages of sports content on a daily basis, with a major focus placed on providing unrivalled coverage of professional football club, St Mirren.Craig developed and nurtured relationships with at all levels of the club, and sport in the wider Renfrewshire area, resulting.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Covered all levels of Scottish football for the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, from the Scottish Juniors up to the Scottish Premiership. The role included producing a match report for both publications as well as post match interviews with managers and players.

Clydebank

Successfully ran the sport desk for five papers The Renfrewshire Gazette, Barrhead News, Clydebank Post, Helensburgh Advertiser and Dumbarton Reporter.In this role, Craig re-established the relationship between The Gazette and St Mirren Football Club as part of the paper's expansion into the town of Paisley following years of focusing on the surrounding.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Carried out a number of sub-editing roles, including producing headlines to draw readers attentions to match reports and features across a range of sports, including rugby, ice hockey and football.Turned around and rewrote copy in a quick fashion to ensure that reports were ready and readable for the paper. Working in a fast paced environment, accuracy was.

Clydebank

In this role I built the news and sports bulletins between the hours of 2-6pm, reading the reports hourly using original copy, as well as Sky contributed audio, before presenting each bulletin on the hour.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Combined the role of editor with production editor, taking overall charge of the newspaper and its layout. The Courier was later nominated for Scottish Student Publication of the Year at the Scottish Student Journalism Awards.Left the position upon the completion of the course, before moving on to Glasgow Caledonian University.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Managed a team of sport writers, working to tight deadlines and communicated closely with management in order to meet print slots and have the highest possible quality of content.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Submitted a number of articles including the feature attached below, that was later printed as a two page feature spread. Work was mostly in the news section of the paper.

Hnd, Practical Journalism

Activities and Societies: Editor of student newspaper, The Cardonald Courier.

Scottish Highers