• Senior member of audience unit, since its formation in 2022. • Across promotion of content. Placement of stories, social media posts, push notifications.• Send many of our newsletters each day• Send Whatsapp updates, enact best SEO practices, curate Google Showcase content. • Plan and present daily promotional strategy. • Choose subscriber only content. • Enhance stories with better headlines, images, links etc. • Occasionally fill in for head of audience on daily duties and regularly lead audience work at weekends.• Long-term, part-time project as part of that role: take lead on newsletter strategy. • Examine our existing stable of newsletters and improve them. • Revamped some existing newsletters and developed some new products• Designed surveys of our newsletter audience with our research team and utilise feedback

Secondment to foreign desk.Commissioning and editing stories. Organising pages for the newspaper. Managing reporters. Planning coverage. Publishing stories and working with digital team. Monitor emails, assign markings. Presenting the plan for the day at editorial conferences. Fill in for Foreign Editor when needed.

• Subeditor until May 2015. Proofreading, editing copy for length, fact-checking, writing headlines, captions.• Online production team since May 2015.Proofreading and editing copy. Write headlines and choose images. Check copy for defamation.• Help manage social media pages, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.• Find stories on the wires. Write stories from scratch occasionally. Have written stories for several sections, with a couple of page one blurbs.• Have had spells in features production working on presentation over the years. Covered sport shifts for a few weeks.• Set up and run liveblogs when required. Moderate comments.• Rewrite headlines for SEO, greater engagement. Enhance stories with social media embeds, pull quotes, inline images, links, podcasts etc. Perform headline tests. Send digests. Create maps, tables, document embeds when appropriate.• Often suggest and write push notifications• Have done production work around elections, using system for result pages. Created all story packages for the budget one year, helped organise coverage. Been managing highlights section for last year. Worked on a fact-check series around the last election.

Secondment. Commissioning and editing stories. Organising pages for the newspaper. Managing reporters. Planning coverage. Publishing stories and working with digital team. Monitor emails, assign markings. Manage homepage, promotion of stories. Choose subscriber only content. Presenting the plan for the day at editorial conferences. Write IT Sunday editor’s note for digest. Curate Google Showcase content.

Regular contributor to this emerging sport website. Mostly covering soccer.Site was named IGNITE Business of the Year 2014.

Primarily a Sports writer.The site was a finalist for Best Group Blog at the Blog Awards 2013.

Writer for Sport and Entertainment sections.The site was a Finalist in the Best Web Only Publication category in the Irish Web Awards 2013.

Occasional contributor to the sports section. Covered the Lions tour.

I was the senior sports editor for a spell at cork.studenty.me. This involved proof reading a lot of material and giving constructive feedback to the writers. I also did my best to motivate the writers by providing encouragement and suggesting possible stories among other things.