Stephen Leng Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

London

Assistant editor at Bella magazine. I source and write celebrity and royal copy, undertake picture research for the cover and inside the magazine, liaise with PRs and freelance journalists, interview and manage the budget. In addition I work on the Bella Monthly series, a hugely successful stand-alone magazine, with 10 issues coming out a year.

London, United Kingdom

Managing a team of writers, organising the celebrity content, cover features and interviews. Liaising with PRs throughout the entertainment industry to gain exclusive access and comment. Sourcing pictures to fill the celebrity pages (and cover). Subediting and proof reading copy.

London, United Kingdom

I created aa Sex and the City Instagram fan account, SamanthaJonesPR, in 2016 which has gone on to gain nearly 20k followers.

London

Hosting a weekly current affairs and celebrity gossip show with Bobby Norris every Thursday from 6pm until 7pm.Stories we have gained from interviews on the show regularly wind up in the national press - including titles such as the MailOnline, The Sun, Daily Star and Metro.

London, United Kingdom

Writing, editing and uploading TV-related content for OK! Online. Managing a team of 6 people, I work on creating unique, shareable and clickable content for Britain's biggest magazine website. I use photoshop, facilitate editing facilities and utilise my individual team members' strengths to make OK! Online's TV section a destination for soap, reality and drama TV news.

Organising interviews, features and previews/reviews for the TV pages and sorting up-front chats for the news section of the magazine.

London, United Kingdom

Sourcing, writing and editing showbiz and television news for a large number of clients including the Evening Standard, Virgin Media and Sky News. I regularly attend movie premieres, showbiz parties and product launches to find exclusive celebrity news. I have interviewed stars ranging from Kelly Rowland to Nicola Roberts and Andy Serkis during my time at BANG.I am proficient at writing for SEO purposes and have extensive use of CMS systems and Photoshop.In addition I also manned the company's Twitter profile, growing it from less than 100 to more than 4,000 through the breaking of exclusive news, competitions and one-to-one interaction with showbiz news fans. I was also responsible for the setting up of an internship programme, bringing in work experience students from universities across the UK.

South Quay, London

Writing for a wide variety of clients ranging from clothing websites to gardening portals, my job was to keep articles top of Google searches. I was also responsible for the implementation of new clients, ironing out problems ahead of a handover to other writers.

Fareham, Hampshire

Working as part of the customer service team, I helped people looking to get criminal record checks to move abroad to English-speaking countries. Liaising with embassies in the UK and abroad and dealing with queries were both major parts of the job.

North East

Working as a runner on ITV crime series Wire in the Blood, I had responsibilities including looking after actors, finding and hauling equipment and any other general needs I was required to; including site closing, tea and coffee serving and looking after the needs of the director.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Multimedia Journalism

City And Guilds, Radio And Journalism, Distinction