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Stamford, Lincolnshire

Writing on fashion, lifestyle and culture, with a focus on menswear, luxury brands, fitness and travel. Building a rock-solid contacts list, devising and pitching exclusive features, while consistently meeting demanding deadlines. Clients include FT How To Spend It, Country & Town House, Wall Street Journal, Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Men’s Health, Cyclist, Cycling Weekly, Harrods, Trail Running, Runner’s World, Bikes Etc.Additionally, writing press releases and collaborating on rebranding projects

Peterborough, United Kingdom

Commissioning and writing must-read features and elite athlete interviews, plus sole responsibility for training, nutrition and gear sections of OF.Planning, commissioning and managing budgets of supplements.Making and developing watertight cycling industry contacts. Representing the brand at trade shows, events and product launches.Creating, agreeing, developing and adhering to monthly issue plans.

Devising, planning, commissioning and writing the paper’s regular weekly features, plus 100 online news stories and features every month. Managing, motivating and appraising a team of journalists, ensuring copy was supplied a week ahead of schedule, fostering a ‘culture of earliness’.Building and maintaining relationships with industry contacts to ensure world exclusive news stories.Representing the publication to the trade and national media.

Managing six-figure budget, and team of 10 production editors and art editors, to bring editorial production costs of four monthly titles in under budget, while managing change to in-house reprographic system.Liaising closely with editors and managing director to achieve the above.Acting as production editor and writer for Performance Bikes, transforming its production culture while commissioning and contributing killer features.

Managing and developing a team of sub-editors, twice winning the annual, company-wide Emap ‘Production Team of the Year’ award.Ensuring more than 250 issues went to press mistake-free and on time.Meeting daily and weekly deadlines, through policing of writing and design progress, plus daily production meetings.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), History

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