Journalist & Media Editor
The River Newspaper And River Online
Kingston Upon Thames, United Kingdom
The River is a fortnightly newspaper and a 24-hour online news website for Kingston Upon Thames Borough produced by Journalism students at Kingston University. It has an estimated readership of 20,000Interviewed Tim Farron, the leader of the Liberal Democrats; MP James Berry; Deputy Vice Chancellor Martin McQuillan; and others.Wrote news stories, features, Arts & Entertainment and comment pieces.Customised news stories for Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.Subbed students' articles and made newspaper pages in Adobe In-Design.Gave presentations to the team on how to use Creative Commons Licencing and ran workshops on Photoshop and Premiere Pro.Worked from 9am to 12 midnight on press day to produce the newspaper so it can be printed and delivered the next day. Day before press day, worked past 12am to make sure images are ready for press day. This includes finding suitable images with correct licensing and adding the correct colour profile in Photoshop.