Freelance Section Editor East Molesey, Surrey, UK
Senior/managing editor with extensive project management experience on new product development and running projects. I work in print/multimedia/web on books/magazines for kids/adults consumer/business
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| Hourly Rate: | £26.39 |
| Available From: | Now | Seller ID: | 257003 |
CV
After working briefly in news reporting, I worked for a partwork publisher on a variety of magazine projects as a sub-editor before getting an editorship on a continuity book series. I have continued to work for most of the UK partwork publishers, developing new product or fulfilling running projects. I have packaged several products with my own limited company, continued to write on a wide range of subjects and increasingly worked on multimedia and web products. Although most of my experience has been for child/adult consumer products, I have also worked on B2B and corporate products. Unsurprisingly, I have honed an ability to manage virtual offices, latterly using web-based management tools such as BaseCamp and am adept at managing lean and contented teams based simultaneously in-house, remotely in the UK and around the globe.
Employment History
(Jan 2008 & ongoing)
Section Editor
West KensingtonI am currently working on a new international partwork launch, Build a Model Solar System, originating text and preparing commission copy for layout and editing pages for repro
(Sep 2006 to Dec 2007)
CD/Web Editor
Canada WaterCD/Web Editor of PC123ABC. I managed the development and fulfilment of the interactive CD-Roms and web pages that accompanied the cards for this weekly product
(Jun 2005 to Mar 2007)
Author
HammermsithAuthor of the 50-part series Boxers: The undisputed DVD Collection, writing the biographies and DVD-companion, round-by-round Fight Guide
(Oct 2001 to May 2005)
CD Editor
Eaglemoss, South KensingtonCD Editor for Real Robots magazine. I managed the 4-langauge CD-Rom series of programming discs that accompanied the build-up robot, liaising with programmers in the UK and Moscow and editorial teams in France, Germany, Italy and Japan
(Nov 2000 to Sep 2001)
Copywriter
Barclays Online/Uswitch/Telewest, Central London/WokingI was copywriter on these web and print products, in the latter case, managing a team of external copywriters to create a suite of instruction manuals for Telewest's digital telephony products
(Jan 1999 to Oct 2000)
Development Editor
EdenCo, Central LondonDevelopment Editor of Lead Soldiers (a magazine series accompanying a collectible set of Napoleonic lead soldiers). This involved liaising with the UK's leading experts in this subject, hiring expert authors and illustrators, commissioning them to supply copy and illustrations, overseeing picture searches, then editing the magazine to repro
(Sep 1993 to Dec 1998)
Packager
DeAgostini/Eaglemoss, Hampton Court/RichmondPackaging of several partwork series, including The Musicals Collection (a magazine series accompanying music CDs of musicals), Universe (a magazine series about the planets etc.), The Movies (a magazine series about the movies), Diana: An Extraordinary Life (a magazine series in conjunction with the BBC) and Camera Wise (a magazine series about photography). This involved negotiating a fee with the publisher, hiring a team, fixing terms and rates, planning and managing the production of the magazine to repro to the satisfaction of the client
(Oct 1992 to Aug 1993)
Editor
Eaglemoss, South KensingtonEditor of Camera Wise (a magazine series about photography). Managing a team of six sub-editors, two designers and a picture researcher to plan and produce a weekly magazine, with commissioned shoots in the UK and overseas, packshots and commissioned illustrations. This was produced pre-DTP
(Jan 1991 to Dec 1992)
Copywriter
Royal Brompton Hospital/Imperial College, Chelsea/KensingtonInterviews and features for the yearbooks of these two institutions. This included arranging interviews with leading surgeons, doctors and nurses, accademics and one high court judge and mixing cutting-edge medical, scientific and technological features with business features in a jargon-free and entertaining style that was accessible to the lay reader
(Jun 1990 to Dec 1990)
Section Editor
Economist Books, London BridgeSection Editor on the Business, Finance and Environment sections of The Economist Atlas of Europe. This involved commissioning leading writers from the national press and accademia, planning and commissioning photography and illustrations, then editing the pages for repro
Education
(Oct 1974 to Jun 1977)
London School of Economics
BSc (Hons) Economics
(Sep 1966 to Jun 1973)
Kilburn Grammar School
(9 O levels, 3 As - History, Economics, British Constitution)
Categories & Skills
Healthcare (Non-Clinical)
Media & Creative
Categories
Skills
- Acrobat (Adobe)
- Adobe
- Books
- Business to Business (Journalism - Magazines)
- Business to Business (Writing)
- Business to Consumer (Writing)
- Children (Writing)
- Commissioning (Journalism)
- Commissioning (Editing)
- Consumer (Journalism - Magazines)
- Contract/Customer (Journalism - Magazines)
- Copywriting (Writing)
- Creative Writing (Writing)
- Editorial Management (Editing)
- InDesign
- InDesign (Adobe)
- Magazine Editing (Editing)
- Magazines (Journalism)
- Magazines
- Management (Journalism)
- Newspaper Supplement (Journalism - Magazines)
- Proof Reading (Editing)
- QuarkXPress
- Sport (Writing)
- Sub-editing (Journalism)
- Sub-editing (Editing)
- Technical
- Web Content (Writing)
- Web Sites
- Website Editing (Editing)

