Macdara Conroy Email & Phone Number

Remote

Remote

• Specialist across a wide range of featured content, covering global territories, for a Fortune 100 tech/media client—maintaining a high standard of engaging editorial and marketing copy.
• Localising, copyediting and copywriting English-language editorial content and marketing materials, as well as QA of front-facing copy and art, always with consistency in mind.
• Working remotely as part of a multinational team, including daily liaison with the client across varioustime zones.
• Other responsibilities include evaluation of candidates, training of new team members and creatingtraining materials for workflow tools.
• Q4 2021 Merit Award Winner.

Remote

• Regular contributor of updates to the website of Irish sailing and boating magazine Afloat.ie.
• Researching and writing short news summaries highlighting stories of interest online, and occasional longer articles, taking in a wide range of subjects from sailing, surfing and fishing to marine science and wildlife.
• Light image editing and uploading of content to the site’s CMS.
• Subediting for the print edition and occasional other tasks, such as script editing for video.

• Since January 2016 I’ve compiled, presented and produced 32 episodes of my streaming music show Enlarged Heart Radio, an hour of interesting sounds for your ears, hosted on Mixcloud.

• Blogging at my personal website macdaraconroy.com since November 2001.
• Topics run from personal updates to diary entries to opinion and criticism on current affairs, culture and much more.
• My site also hosts a linkblog I’ve curated since 2003, along with other web-based projects (including the site itself, designed and coded by hand).

Remote

• Freelance copywriting, content writing and proofreading for Bridgehead Media, a global network ofwriters and editors.
• Produced localised playlist descriptions for a Fortune 100 tech/media client, researching and writing informative and engaging briefs across a variety of music genres, following specific guidelines.

• Reviews, interviews and features on music, film and more—short- and long-form—for a variety of publications including Bandcamp Daily (daily.bandcamp.com), the Bridgehead Media blog (bridgeheadmedia.com/blog), Irish DIY.
• Maintaining good relationships with artist and record label PR.

Belfast, United Kingdom

• Editorial freelance, in the newsroom and remotely, on major daily and weekend newspaper titles in theNorthern Ireland region, the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Life, with RE&D in Belfast (until the end of its contract.
• Worked with Atex and Adobe InCopy across multiple sections with deep attention to detail, correctingcopy on the page and writing engaging headlines, standfirsts and captions to strict requirements.

Dublin, Ireland

• Chief subeditor and page designer for Metro Éireann, Ireland’s first national multicultural newspaper, publishing monthly (from July 2018 to February 2020); previously twice monthly (from July 2010 to June 2018) and.
• Subediting copy (from proofreading to heavy line editing); writing headlines and captions; planningand laying out pages with Adobe InDesign/QuarkXPress; editing images, correcting proofs and prepping files for print.
• Production coordination: page planning; liaising with print house, contributors, etc.

Dublin, Ireland

• Editor, subeditor and proofreader for the Creative Writing Group (CWG) agency (October 2005-September 2006), working on various advertorials, special features and magazine supplements for Independent News & Media (Fine.
• Assistant editor for and contributor to an unpublished men’s lifestyle supplement for the Sunday Independent. Responsibilities included, and were not limited to, liaising with other contributors and PR officers.

• Various freelance writing and design opportunities since October 2005:
• Design consultant for the Migraine Association of Ireland’s ‘Brainwaves’ newsletter; advised on redesign and expansion of bulletin for the charity’s members and contributors.
• Designed and developed promotional website for SwiftEditing (swiftediting.ie); set up hosting, created page templates (HTML and CSS) and edited site copy.
• Designed 2008 Olympic Games campaign sponsorship proposal for 470 sailing team Ger Owens and Sam Hunt. (Owens, who previously competed in Athens 2004, later secured sponsorship and qualified for the Beijing Games with.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Journalism

• MA (Hons) degree in Journalism, November 2005. Graduated with first class honours. • Thesis: ‘Blogosphere of influence: Are weblogs.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Information Studies And Philosophy

Activities and Societies: AltSoc (Alternative Music Society)• BA (Hons) degree in Arts (Information Studies and Philosophy), December.