Simon Hacker Email & Phone Number

NCTJ-trained with extensive exerience as reporter, chief reporter, sub-editor and editor in regional press. As a freelance, I have filed news and features for most nationals, specialising as a travel writer for the Sunday Times and car critic for the Guardian. Have also written for broad range of consumer magazines, including BMW, Alfa Romeo.

FIling copy on new car models and contributing a monthly campaigning/off-beat/topical/humour page.

Stroud, England, United Kingdom

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Essex

Allegedly longest-serving columnist with main title.

Essex

Motoring correspondent.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Supplying automotive news/views for social media presence of a prominent aftermarket brand.

Wotton-under-Edge, GLOS

Having built this publication out of nothing with my colleague, videographer and photographer Matt Bigwood, we have now sold the title to a local publisher and are looking at new news/publicity projects and campaigns. The Wotton Times proved that paid-for local newsprint does have a future where it is embedded in the community it serves and creates content.

Gloucestershire

I created The Memory Van with my wife Madeline as a social enterprise initiative to help those whose lives have been affected by dementia issues. The van was a roadshow of memorabilia from the 1940s-70s, a mobile exhibition staged at care homes in the west country. The experience of our roadshow was subsequently documented for use by the care homes and.

London

Filing travel reports and features from around the world.

Paris Area, France

News gathering for Nissan in Europe (ie corporate business news). Translation key to work.

Reporting on new model launches from around the planet. Some comment perspective on auto industry.

London, United Kingdom

I came up with ideas for car-related and consumer features for G2, along with copy on new model launches and motor shows. Here are a few examples.

Chipping Sodbury

Freelance editor for regional semi-rural magazine. Tweed jacket optional.

Dursley, Glos.

NCTJ-indentured postgrad trainee reporter, progressing to chief reporter, sub-editor and roving relief editor for the group, with posts including editorship of the Penarth Times and Barry and District News in Wales. Final role with group was at helm of its first magazine acquisition, Town and Country Magazine, which lasted for a year before the group.