Ian Lamont Email & Phone Number

South East, England, United Kingdom

Sourcing stories for publication and designing newspaper pages across 11 weekly/Daily titles

Carshalton, England, United Kingdom

Carrying out communications on behalf of the South East Rivers Trust and its projects on its wide range of catchments, from Reading to Dover and down to Hastings and Eastbourne.

London, England, United Kingdom

Interim communications manager. Constructing social media, web pages, press releases, key messaging for projects across the organisation and partnership campaigns led by the charity. Acting as the proactive and reactive press/media office. Co-ordinated London Rivers Week 2021, a partnership campaign celebrating the capital's rivers and inspiring people to.

Redhill, United Kingdom

Page editing news and sport for newspapers across Reach PLC's South East division, on newspapers from Aldershot to Cambridge, via Surrey, Essex, Kent and Hertfordshire.

Walbrook Wharf, London

A member of the senior management team, with responsibility for communications, at London's leading waterways charity. Overseeing, writing and editing the content for communications devices which include the website, social media, press releases and liaison, printed publications, plus marketing materials for the charity's various projects and campaigns.

Redhill, United Kingdom

Freelance journalist with vast experience in writing online and offline material.Skills include PR and social media. Content written for Betfair, Athletics Weekly and Inside Croydon

Crawley

Writing and editing blogs and landing pages for websites, plus social media posts across several platforms for the company's B2B and B2C clients across a wide range of sectors, as part of their SEO-driven marketing strategies for organic follower growth. Wrote case studies and advertorials for clients as part of digital and offline marketing strategies..

Greenwich

Reporter of news, sport and the arts and sub-editor on a freelance basis at Greenwich Time newspaper, run by Greenwich Council. Turning complex information about key messages into simple, understandable copy for the newspaper's readers in a diverse community. This including liaising with many external stakeholders from schools and charities to public.

Surrey

Reporter, sub-editor and section editor since 1996, in sport and general news. Have been writing a blog for Betting.Betfair.com giving tips on League Two matches since 2008. Updated Betfair Twitter feed for the Betfair Masters. Articles also for Surrey Life Magazine, www.londonathletics.org and www.crawleyhappytimes.co.uk, insidecroydon.info, Athletics.

Redhill, United Kingdom

Wrote sports news stories and features and designed pages as part of a team at Croydon Advertiser, Surrey Mirror, Leatherhead Advertiser, Crawley News and East Grinstead Observer. As well as the staple diet of football, cricket and rugby (including covering Whitgift's 2011 Daily Mail Cup triumph at Twickenham), led coverage of athletics across titles..

Reigate, United Kingdom

Sub-editor/page designer as part of team across nine titles, including Croydon Advertiser (Local Weekly Newspaper of the Year 2006, British Regional Press Awards).

Freelance writer and mostly sub-editor, particularly in sport, on national newspapers including The Times, The Independent and the Sunday Telegraph. Wrote a weekly column "The Ref Answers Back" in the Non-League Paper, trying to balance the media coverage of refereeing issues, where the voice of refereeing was under-represented.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Music

Gcse And A-Levels

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