Sarah Firth Email & Phone Number

• Supplying headlines and marketing sells for cover based on insights and sales data and working with art and editor on final design.
• Managing editorial content budget.
• Liaising with marketing and advertising over competitions and advertorial content.
• Briefing designers on pages and approving.
• Creating internal editorial deadlines and ensuring they are met.
• Syndicating content to news.com.au and British magazines.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Planning and assigning the features content for that’s life! to ensure it aligns with our brand as a mix of informative, entertaining, emotional and inspiring stories as well as eye-catching lines for the cover.
• Managing team of writers and leading daily news meeting, giving feedback on copy and performance.
• Managing copy flow to meet internal and production deadlines. Successfully managed a six-week editorial deadline pull-forward.
• Being across the content for up to eight different issues at once and where the workflow is at for multiple issues.
• Editing copy to ensure it meets tl!'s distinctive style.
• Liaising with grid manager, picture editor and art team.

Sydney, Australia

• Features editor for that’s life! Mega Monthly. Ensuring the right mix of entertaining, emotional and inspiring stories and a balance of Australian and overseas content.
• Commissioning stories for that’s life! weekly and monthly magazines, bidding for content from agencies and commissioning freelancers to write stories signed in-house.
• Editing copy into tl!’s concise and lively style, as well fact checking and proof-reading pages on dyeline.
• Managing the flow of copy to meet deadlines for monthly magazine, and Medifile and Spooky sections of weekly.
• Supplying and workshopping ideas for eye-catching cover lines for weekly and monthly magazines.
• Interviewing case studies and writing features as necessary.

• Researched and signed stories for that’s life!, Australia’s number one real-life magazine.
• Interviewed case studies about sensitive and personal topics using Teeline shorthand.
• Wrote engaging first person features about dramatic, heart-warming or quirky experiences to tight deadlines for tl! and for syndication online and overseas.
• Source and wrote content for thatslife.com.au and scheduling stories to engage our Facebook followers.

Within 23 Wards, Tokyo, Japan

• Sourced, wrote and edited news content for the BCCJ website (bccjapan.com) using CMS.
• Wrote detailed articles on presentations from business leaders and public figures.
• Managed social media across Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
• Produced marketing materials (DMs, invitations, flyers) for BCCJ events and membership drives.
• Wrote a weekly e-newsletter using Campaign Monitor DM software.
• Managed relationships with strategic partners such as the British Embassy Tokyo, British Council and corporate sponsors.

Within 23 Wards, Tokyo, Japan

• Supported launch of Export to Japan (E2J) website, a market-entry website for UK businesses.
• Managed social media (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn) for E2J.
• Wrote and edited content and updated website using CMS.
• Proofread website pre-launch and created in-house style guide.
• Filmed events and trade shows, interviewed attendees, and edited videos using Final Cut Pro.
• Wrote, recorded and edited a screencast guide on how to use the site.

Tokunoshima And Yoron High Schools, Kagoshima Remote Islands

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Responsible for generating story and feature ideas, carrying out interviews, and producing copy to tight deadlines for paper/web.
• Wrote hard news, human interest features, food and gig reviews, and case-study based editorial for health and fitness campaigns.
• Interviewees included UK Prime Ministers Gordon Brown and David Cameron, and celebrity and sporting figures.
• Managed and produced editorial for in-house promotions team for internal campaigns such as Baby of the Year and Win a Fairytale Wedding.
• Drafted and commissioned columns from politicians and community figures on topical issues.
• Built strong relationships with contacts including press officers, community leaders, and local politicians.

Ba Hons, English Studies

Activities and Societies: Student Community Action, publicity team. Literacy Volunteer.

Nctj Newspaper Reporting, Journalism