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Norwich, Gb

Working with the inspirational Cate Caruth creating digital and physical copy for a range of businesses and individuals

working alongside Andy Taylor to create digital and physical copy for a range of business clients, from local to national businesses, across sectors from construction to hospitality to construction to retail to product designpublishing projects include Only One Ole, a one-off hardback book celebrating the life of a USAF pilot killed in a freak accident in 1980

Mardy Media is my company, through which I manage my freelance writing and sub-editing work. I've written and/or edited copy for:enLightCapita IT Professional Services/ITR (websites, graduate recruitment brochure, creation of style guide, other marketing material)Cotswold Co/Pine Solutions (website copy for individual items of furniture)Playback live band (website copy)Stephanie Hillier hypnotherapist/NLP practicioner (website copy: www.stephaniehillier.co.uk)Keverne Dewick (website copy: www.kdewick.co.uk)Beaujolais and Beyond (website copy and blog entries www.beaujolaisandbeyond.co.uk)live! magazine (Mail on Sunday) (editing and writing TV previews -- NB magazine now closed)weekend magazine (Daily Mail) (editing soap page)GQ Style (biannual add-on mag to GQ) (sub-editing)AWA Wealth Management (brochure production and website)Cooper and Read (website and publicity copy)James Robinson Images (website copy)Property Week Analytics (sub-editing several 400+ page reports)BabyCentre (UK) (writing, research and editing copy for this leading parenting website)Ahlan! (Dubai's answer to Hello! magazine) (editing copy for Top 100 Homes supplement)I've also edited book manuscripts, including the UEA Creative Writing Department's undergraduate anthologies and projects for the Writers' Workshop.I completed a year's work for Sky's Programme Information department, writing previews for the on-line highlights guide and also conducting interviews (including Tom Selleck)Past jobs through Mardy Media include:Closer -- tv previews (2004, under the name Kate Chamberlain)UGC Unlimited Magazine -- film previews (2002)HSBC Premier Magazine -- various UK-based articles (2001)

Like the Wind are producing a printed magazine for parkrun which is a celebration of the organisation's inclusivity and community. It's not a "running magazine", it's a place for stories of parkrun participation and small changes that can help to create a healthy lifestyle

Part of the team producing this unique and beautifully designed magazine, which examines why we run rather than how to put one foot in front of the other. We also produce a fortnightly online newsletter, LtW notes, curating interesting running stories from the internetSince the mag launched in January 2014, I have subbed and fact-checked all features, as well as proofing the completed magazine.As of September 2015, I became deputy editor and then co-editor of Like the Wind, a role in which I get more of a chance to communicate with our brilliant contributorswww.likethewindmagazine.com

First port of call for customers wishing to purchase books and submit manuscripts

Voluntary rolePeapod Pre-School looks after around 100 pre-school children (aged two-four) in South Norwich. The directors of this not-for-profit company work as a team. Our role is to support, guide and oversee the management and staff team (around 20 people). We ensure pre-school is running to the best of its ability and for the benefit of the community as whole. In my time on the board we have assisted in a move to new premises – and the legal and logistical negotiations involved. We have dealt with significant high-level HR functions, including recruitment of new management, changes in management structure and dealing with poor performance. We have provided support for Ofsted inspections and ensured that requirements are met. We also look at long-term planning, such as considering an application for charitable status. The board oversees the finances: forecasting and budgeting and complying with all regulations. We also deal with complaints.I held the position of company secretary for three years, ensuring the Companies House and similar administration were all in order. I have stepped away from this role but remain on the board in an advisory capacity. My involvement with pre-school has taught me patience, diplomacy and the skill of focusing on improving both the pre-school and the happiness and skills of those who work there. Furthermore I have gained significant HR knowledge and learned a lot about long-term commercial tenancy negotiations, gaining charitable status and generally overseeing a large organisation with a turnover in excess of £180k.

This website aimed to bring the style, knowledge and detail of newspaper television previews to a daily web audience. Staffed by former members of the Evening Standard and Times TV desks, it brought a witty, refreshing approach to daily TV previews.

Voluntary rolesI was production editor for both the NCT Welwyn Hatfield and NCT Norfolk and Norwich quarterly local magazines. This role involved page layout, sub-editing, liaison with printers, liaison with ad sales/placing adverts, editorial planning, writing and even stuffing envelopes...

Evening StandardFollowing wholesale reorganisation of the TV desk and the outsourcing of page production, I became the sole writer of terrestrial TV previews during the week and both terrestrial and digital previews for a Saturday/Sunday guide. Duties included: researching and writing TV previews; daily contact with TV channel PRs about potential previews; daily liaison with external agency over page-layout and picture-research issues; highlighting potential stories or interview subjects for news and features departments, organising freelance cover and passing TV pages for print.

Writer of TV previews for three-day weekend TV guide, published every Friday (from 2002-2004 this was a seven-page guide). Researched programmes for preview, requested tapes and PR information for programmes. Also rewrote and edited listings copy (supplied in template form from Press Association), made sure listings were up-to-date and that copy fitted the page. Deputised for TV editor in his absence, which included attending features conference, highlighting upcoming TV stories and new programmes and passing details to news and features departments, as well as organising and supervising freelance cover.

Sub-edited TV previews and listings for daily three-page TV guide. Made sure late changes were applied to listings copy, collated copy from external sources and sourced and placed pictures on page. Wrote daily satellite previews and also radio previews during TV editor's absence.

Responsible for copy-editing and workflow on contract magazines produced for Canary Wharf Group plc and HSBC bank. Creation of style guides for both magazines. Role included sub-editing and rewriting copy; fact-checking; trafficking pages between client, designers and production department; booking freelance sub-editors (English-speaking and foreign-language); checking cromalins; preparation of daily status reports.

So many jobs in just under four years... I started as Group Librarian and ended up as chief sub on a fat weekly

Responsible for production of monthly magazine for contract client, The Institute of Employment Consultants. Established harmonious and productive relationship with client. Responsibilities included: sub-editing; page layout; flatplanning; commissioning; liaison with repro house, client and printer; scanning images. During this period, I also produced supplements and one-off projects and worked occasional shifts sub-editing the group's magazines, including Building, Property Week and Electrical Contractor.

Maintained photographic archive for publisher of two weekly and six monthly business magazines. Carried out picture research for all titles, as well as editorial research, picture syndication, readers' enquiries and general administration. Recreated fully functioning archive following IRA bomb of February 1996. Specifically briefed to restore editorial trust in library after poor previous management had led it to be seriously underutilised.

Property WeekResponsible for production of weekly magazine with an average of 40 editorial pages. Management of production team and daily freelance staff. Ensured that finished pages reached repro house on time and with minimal error. Worked closely with advertising department and editorial staff to ensure all requirements were met. Responsibilities included: liaison with art department, repro house, printer and external contributors; maintenance of correct pagination; flatplanning, sub-editing, page layout and film-checking; booking freelance staff; ensuring receipt of electronic images; scanning images.

Property WeekSecond in command of four-strong production team for weekly magazine. Responsibilities included: sub-editing; page layout; scanning images; management of commercially critical section of magazine; liaison with repro house and printer. Deputised for chief sub-editor in her absence.

Pre-launch picture research. Assisted picture editor until her departure after five issues and subsequently ran picture desk single-handed for six months. Responsibilities included: commissioning and researching photography for weekly broadsheet newspaper and various supplements, all on newspaper deadlines and to a strict budget; creation and management of photographic archive.

Co-creator and first editor of pullout listings section. Responsibilities included sub-editing, commissioning articles and photography, page layout and feature writing. Also edited careers and consumer pages. Occasional news reporting.

Reported the signing of Arab-Israeli peace accord for mid-morning show, plus subsequent appearance to discuss time spent in US. This followed publicity and work experience for the station in 1990.

Leeds University Union Student RadioNewsreader: writer and presenter of hourly bulletins. Co-wrote and presented current-affairs documentarythat was shortlisted for a 1993 Guardian/NUS Student Media Award.

Ba (Hons), Politics And Parliamentary Studies

Activities and Societies: Theatre Group Leeds Student newspaper Network FMPolitics & Parliamentary Studies (2:1) Third year of degree.

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