Kay Smith Email & Phone Number

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

- Creating content to promote and enhance understanding of new ways of working for field teams and Work Management- Communications planning across seven different task teams- Finding creative, visual ways to showcase metrics improvements- Working with Canva and graphic designers to create site posters and interactive roadmaps - Shaping complex and.

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

- Responding to media enquiries from local and national media in a fast-paced working environment- Drafting media and holding statements on police incidents- Identifying opportunities to promote the work of the Force to increase trust and confidence in policing- Facilitating media interviews with detectives and officers- Drafting reputational media.

Wirral, Merseyside

- Working with specialist teams across the council to write press releases and media statements- Writing copy for council publications and websites- Engaging with stakeholders to promote multi-agency services to residents- Responding to media enquiries- Producing video content for both internal and external campaigns- Editing the council intranet- Writing.

Wirral, Merseyside

London / Liverpool, United Kingdom

• Drinks writer at Vandal Online (2014-present)
• Journalist - The House of Peroni - Italian fashion, music and culture articles (2014)
• Publicist - Jessica Huie PR - national press coverage for fashion and gift industry clients (2014)
• Celebrity news stories for HolyMoly.com (2007)
• Agony Aunt and features writer at BBC Slink (teenage girls) (2010)
• Monthly MTV column with producer and singer Labrinth (2010/11)

• I also worked here from November 2009-January 2011Achievements
• I helped to secure the hospital charity as BBC Radio Merseyside’s ‘Charity of the Year’: promoting hospital events and coordinating staff appearances on the station’s shows.
• My written entry for our hospital’s Commissionaire to appear on BBC North West Tonight’s programme ‘NHS Heroes’ was successful.
• I have obtained coverage for the hospital in publications including: The Liverpool Daily Post and Echo; The Chester Chronicle; The Guardian; Cancer magazine C21; Heart FM.Key responsibilities
• editing the hospital magazine 'C3'
• identifying key media contacts and spokespeople for the organisation

London, England, United Kingdom

• print, TV and online PR campaigns for Britney Spears, Usher, The Noisettes, Oh Land, Adam Lambert, John Legend, Shakira, and more.
• liaising with journalists to obtain press coverage – interviews and album reviews
• writing press releases
• co-ordinating press junkets
• co-ordinating promo trips, album launch parties, and showcases
• event staff at the MOBO nominations and awards

London

• (Six-month contract to cover secondment)
• managed number one selling artist Pitbull’s UK press campaign at RCA.
• managed Marsha Ambrosius’ UK press campaign at RCA, obtaining interview features in The Times, The Independent, The Sun, and more. This led to the label submitting press coverage as part of Marsha’s Mercury Award.
• coordinated a Jennifer Hudson international press junket (RCA) at the Mayfair Hotel
• media monitoring
• organising travel arrangements and providing itineraries for staff, and journalists

Pg Diploma Magazine Journalism, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Specialism: Popular Music Postgraduate Diploma in Magazine Journalism

Ba (Hons) English And Communication Studies

BA English and Communication Studies