Josie Copson Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

• Part of a team of five who are responsible for all the real life and health content across six titles.
• Work purely on digital for one week, once per month and also write digital content daily.
• Trained on social media, which led to specialised shifts where I promote the whole website’s content.
• Produce content and edit for Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
• Attend daily features meeting where I pitch ideas. It is then up to me to independently source case studies, interview and write the features. Features have included Alton Towers crash victims, the wife of the World’s.
• Particular passion for covering mental health stories. Recently worked with two women to write letters to their past suicidal selves about why they should keep living.

London, United Kingdom

• Joined OK! as an Editorial Assistant on maternity cover, before being made a permanent member of staff and promoted.
• Secured some of the bigger at home features, weddings and exclusive announcements that are synonymous with the magazine through forming relationships with agents. These included the first big Love Island wedding.
• Interviewed on Radio 1Xtra about my role.
• Wrote news pages, reviews, travel copy and health features.

London, United Kingdom

• After graduating from university I did internships at various publications, which included Cosmopolitan and Bang Showbiz, resulting in two job offers.
• Wrote multiple investigative long read features, including working undercover as a shot girl in Magaluf, becoming a professional party crasher and dating fake sugar daddies.
• Took ownership of First Love section which involved reuniting a former couple every month.
• After leaving the company I continued to write freelance for Cosmopolitan, as well as for the branded content department.

Ba, Journalism, Media And Cultural Studies, 2:1

A Levels, Sociology, Dance And English Language., Sociology, A, Dance, A, English Language, C.

Education record

Activities and Societies: RE, A*, Business Studies A*A, English, A, Geography, A, Science B, Maths, B, Dance, B and French, B.