Jane C. Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles, California, United States

Frankfurt, Germany/London, United Kingdom

• Clients while freelancing include:
• Crytek GmbH: delivered creative copy covering everything from inventing profile details of alien characters in the Crysis 2 video game to promotional material featuring the company’s innovative approach to stereoscopic.
• IPC Media: edited features for Wedding and Shooting Times magazines. One highlight includes introducing a consistent recipe style to the latter’s holiday food special.
• The River Group: after working full-time for River, I was hired back as a freelancer, pitching, writing and/or editing news and features for a selection of lifestyle magazines.
• WeightWatchers.co.uk: wrote articles and listicles adhering to a very particular house style. Worked with the commissioning editor to make minor edits where requested.Following this, I relocated to the US from the UK.

London, United Kingdom

• After working as a copy-editor on the launch teams of DARE and Shape lifestyle and fashion magazines, I was promoted to a more senior position on Weight Watchers in 2008. Alongside this role, my former boss on DARE and.
• Conceiving, writing and editing news and both short and long-form features, demonstrating an engaging writing style and a keen eye for detail.
• Deputising for the chief copy-editor by managing freelancers, production schedules, flatplans and house styles. I also wrote the style guide for DARE from scratch.
• Working on several different projects at once, handling disparate styles and schedules.
• Collaborating with both external brands and the sales team to produce advertorials targeted to each different readership, taking careful note of repeat clients’ style preferences to speed the sign-off process.
• Assembling a network of industry contacts to source quotes and competition prizes.

London, United Kingdom

Worked on the weekly Channel Five Television Guide, researching, writing and laying out TV recaps and other promotional copy featuring Five’s lifestyle, drama and documentary shows such as House, Prison and Break. I also wrote digital EPG descriptions for upcoming programs and interviewed celebrities ranging from the late Howard Marks to a self-proclaimed.

London, United Kingdom

I started at the BBC as a freelance sub-editor on a new contract for the Daily Express, Daily Star and their associated magazines, proofing and making amends to their listings pages. As well as producing a comprehensive style guide, I was also trusted with a night shift that gave me total responsibility for editing the base pages that were then amended for.

Wrote and edited copy covering the American and Milan film markets and the Cannes film festival. While at Cannes, I led a small team to produce a set of comprehensive film guides of 40–50 pages a day, which I then laid out, edited and sent to press. Produced and edited news, reviews and travel guides for all daily issues and market previews, often to very.

Ma, Print Journalism

Activities and Societies: While studying and working part-time for Moving Pictures, I also wrote and edited a magazine for the Fabian.

Ba (Hons) First Class, English & Drama

Activities and Societies: Contributed to all sections of the award-nominated student newspaper, Cub, as a writer and copy-editor before.