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Preston, England, United Kingdom

An audience development consultancy - we understand audiences. Offering editorial services, digital experience and much more to help you grow and engage digital audiences. I'm one of three directors of Alma.

Preston, United Kingdom

This position sees me provide support, guidance and mentoring to the next generation of journalists and editors. I also attend the annual CJAM event where journalism students pitch for placement and mentoring opportunities. I will also provide feedback and input on the journalism training programmes to the leadership team of the UCLan journalism.

Preston, United Kingdom

I founded Blog Preston in 2009, which became a Community Interest Company, bringing news and information to Preston. It has become one of the leading sources of news and information in Preston and the surrounding area.From 2009 to 2019 I worked as editor of the site and social media channels for a decade, building a highly connected and engaged audience in.

I led Reach's Network Newsroom, a spine of central editorial teams providing content, insight and more for the largest commercial news publisher in the UK supporting the growth of the Live network of regional titles, working closely with our colleagues in the Nationals, Scottish and Irish divisions of Reach too.I was part of the senior editorial leadership.

Preston, England, United Kingdom

Led Reach's central editorial teams through the pandemic, introducing new ways of editorial working often within the space of hours. Worked as part of group of senior editors - Audience and Content Directors - to support the rapid growth of Reach's Live network of regional titles across all parts of the UK and Ireland.Expanded Reach's central trending team.

Preston, United Kingdom

Leading the Network Newsroom which sits at the heart of our Live network of Regional sites. Senior Editor leading a number of different teams across trending content, video, podcasts, affiliates and our new launch Live titles across the UK..During this period I:- Formalised the creation of the Network trending team to provide UK & World News content to.

During this senior editorial role within Reach's central editorial team I worked on key projects including:- The roll-out and training of hundreds of journalists in moving to the Escenic content management system (Cue) across the former Local World portfolio following Reach's acquisition of it. I led the rollout team which covered the whole country working.

Preston, United Kingdom

Lead the first editorial expansion and strategy for InYourArea - Reach plc's hyperlocal community news and information platform and app. Building and scaling up an editorial team, working closely with product and commercial teams on introducing new features. Also introduced first brand strategy for InYourArea, aligned with editorial vision and new team.

Regionals - All Over The UK

Working with some of the UK and world's largest websites and newspapers to grow our digital audience, rapidly. Trinity Mirror rebranded as Reach during this time, so my experience within this role can be found within the Reach PLC section of my portfolio.

United Kingdom

Leading the central digital publishing team, with a responsibility for digital publishing excellence and video growth for some of the largest regional media brands in the UK including the Liverpool Echo, Manchester Evening News, Hull Daily Mail among many others.I led the roll-out of digital publishing standards training across the former Local World.

Liverpool

Secondment to the Liverpool Echo, primarily leading the sports team back into digital audience growth. Covering two of the biggest clubs in football, Liverpool FC and Everton FC.During this period I led the introduction of a premium content offering, Anfield Extra, which brought together exclusive podcasts and in-depth features and digital storytelling.

Canary Wharf, London

Working as part of the central digital publishing team for Trinity Mirror Regionals to help produce the biggest regional newspaper websites in the UK.Responsible for exploring new ways to expand our digital audience, working with regional teams to ensure we have the best digital products for our audience and overseeing our multimedia and social media growth.

Canary Wharf, London

Managing the team responsible for producing the UK's largest regional newspaper websites. Exploring new opportunities to expand our digital audience and ensure Trinity Mirror Regionals remain the UK's best regional news publisher online.Also responsible for multimedia across all of Trinity Mirror's regional titles. Managing the growth of video streams.

Canary Wharf, London

Working across all Trinity Mirror Regional sites to support the development of multimedia content. Specific responsibility for the Kit Digital Console which powers all our multimedia content (video, photos and audio).

Chester, Cheshire

Three month secondment as Publisher leading the newsroom through the introduction of the Newsroom 3.1 digital-first publishing strategy. Editorial responsibility for all content across digital, print and social media.

Reading, United Kingdom

Lead Trinity Mirror Regional's Berkshire titles. Publisher of www.getreading.co.uk. Responsible for all editorial output. More than doubled the audience both global and local within six months.

Cardiff, Wales

Making web stuff happen at Media Wales. Working across walesonline.co.uk, South Wales Echo and Western Mail. Connecting communities with their community media.

I help decide the strategy for Mencap Liverpool. We're affiliated to Royal Mencap. We represent and work with 500 people with learning disability, their families, carers and friends across Liverpool. We run the Employment Service and Access to Heritage Project. We're just about to start the Circles Project with funding from Liverpool City Council. I take a.

Responsible for all Union web presences, content, design and maintenance. Work with the University of Central Lancashire's web services team to deliver projects for the Union on all areas of the web, this includes business processes.Wrote and currently in the process of implementing the first digital strategy for the Union and have the ultimate aim of.

Responsible for all communications output at the Union. This included being editor of the student newspaper, Pluto, and chief executive of the student radio station, Frequency. This included running high profile investigative journalism operations into a student running an essay writing firm and also into a student society leader who had publicly made.

Two month placement in Bangalore, India. Responsible for producing, proofing and designing copy and pages for Explocity, a company that produced city guides and lifestyle magazines for India's expanding youth market.

Worked shifts for Lancashire Evening Post as a reporter. This included stories on community events and public affairs. Also worked on the re-launched lep.co.uk producing video and multimedia content for the site.

Postgraduate Degree, Journalism Leadership & Innovation, Distinction

Part-time postgraduate certificate in Journalism Leadership & Innovation Google DNI funded Exploring the future of journalism, leadership.

Ba (Hons), Journalism, First-Class

Activities and Societies: writer - student newspaper, deputy music editor - student newspaper, dj - student radio station, chairperson and.