Neil Spark Email & Phone Number

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Corporate Media Services is a national training organisation founded by Doug Weller in 2005, after a distinguished career in journalism of more than 35 years. Corporate Media Services provides a full suite of media and corporate training which can be customised to specific requirements of clients. Corporate Media Services works with governments, large corporates and SMEs nationally and internationally.

Hobart, Australia

Responsible for straetgic direction and delivery of marketing road safety in Tasmania. Manage advertising and other communication. Liaise with a range of stakeholders to achieve optimal road safety outcomes.

Melbourne, Australia

• Responsible for the leadership, management and production of the online and print versions of RACV's magazine, RoyalAuto that has a print run of 1.5 million 11 times a year • Determine editorial, advertising and commercial direction of the magazine• Manage the budget and multi-million dollar contracts

Melbourne, Australia

Part-time role. Managed and delivered the media relations subject in the Public Relations Principles and Practices course. The course provided participants with the skills and knowledge to effectively communicate with the media and get their message to a mass audience.

• Strategic editorial responsibility for lifestyle and real estate editorial content of the network's 33 community publications• Managed editorial content for Melbourne's three leading community lifestyle publications: Melbourne Weekly Magazine, Melbourne Weekly Bayside and Emerald Weekly, City Weekly, Berwick and District Journal• Story generation and selection, cover image selection, staff management

Responsible for the lifestyle pages of 33 publications, including The Melbourne Weekly. Set the strategic direction for lifestyle content and led lifestyle journalists.

Responsible for editorial content, strategy and production of Melbourne Weekly Magazine, Melbourne Weekly Bayside, Emerald Hill Weekly. The weeklies are glossy colour lifestyle publications distributed to 225,000 homes in the cities of Stonnington and Boroondara, Bayside suburbs and the City of Port Phillip respectively. Responsibilities• Determine the magazines’ editorial strategy and content • Provide leadership, and management of editorial team of 15• Manage the magazines’ editorial budget• Manage editorial component of supplements including the annual Independent Schools Guide• Work closely with the general manager and management team to ensure quality outcomes are consistently achieved• Liaise closely with the sales director to ensure commercial goals are realised while maintaining a high editorial standard.

Set the strategy for editorial, led the editorial team, managed the editorial operations of the magazine.

Reported New South Wales and Federal politics, courts and general news; also sub editing.

Media liaison, speech writing and day-to-day management of communications.

Master Of Arts, Communication - Journalism

Degree completed by research involving a 30,000 word thesis on journalism education in print media in Melbourne. In-depth interviews.

Graduate Diploma Social Science, Public Sector Management

Bachelor of Arts (Political Science and Sociology)

Ba, Politics And Sociology