Managed a team of writers and subs producing a wide range of features content in print and on the website, including the most comprehensive online listings content in Sussex.Edited the paper's highly respected weekly arts and entertainments supplement.Launched and edited high-quality Saturday lifestyle magazine and various supplements, including a much lauded annual guide to Brighton Festival and Brighton Fringe.Commissioned and managed a changing team of freelance contributors and columnists.Played a key role in forging and managing range of regional media partnerships.Oversaw the development and production of online features content.Trained and mentored a succession of subs and writers.Facilitated valuable work experience for trainee subs and writers on various Journalist Works courses.

Managed a team of subs producing wide range of daily, weekly and occasional features pages and supplements, covering arts and ents, lifestyle features, property, motors, readers' letters, puzzlesFlatplanning and page scheduling of special features and supplements, in liaison with advertising departmentProof reading and revising all features contentFinal sending of pages in liaison with pre-press and print departments

Design and layout of features pages and supplementsFact-check, sub and re-write featuresWrite headlines, standfirsts, captions and sellsEdit images using Quark and PhotoshopSole responsibility for layout and subbing of all editorial content on special year-long monthly heritage supplement, Bygone Brighton, celebrating the history of the city in the run-up to the millennium

Project-managed and edited (including photo research) a series of full-colour children's non-fiction books, liaising with designers, writers and printers.

Worked on the launch of Take A Break and TV Quick magazines, and freelanced at the Daily Mirror, TV Times and Independent Television Publications

As deputy head of forward planning (between 1985 and 1987), responsible for management of sensitive upcoming programme information between TV Times editorial executives and senior TV schedulers, planners and makers at the ITV companies and Channel FourResearching potential stories around upcoming drama and documentary series via meetings with directors and producersPresentation of information to magazine's editorial executives, highlighting key features and photographic opportunities Working with programme makers and journalists to realise magazine features and covers in a highly competitive commercial situation

Including The Sun, News of the World, Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, Daily Mail and a two-month stint at The Star in New York