My CV
Here's what I've been doing with my life
September 2014 - present
Owner-operator, Interesting Media
April 2013 – September 2014
Deputy Editor, Cambridge News. Second-in-command leading a team of 45 journalists and ancillary staff delivering print and online content to an audience of 450,000 people a month.
October 2009 – April 2013
Head of Magazines and Features, Cambridge Newspapers. Leading a team of 12 journalists and designers, I was responsible for all features content in the Cambridge News and associated titles, plus a portfolio of award-winning, high quality monthly magazines. Having taken over managing editorship of the existing Style, Cambridgeshire Journal and Grand Arcade magazines, in 2010 I launched entertainment monthly CB – named UK Regional Magazine of the Year at the 2012 Newspaper Awards (for which Style and Journal were also shortlisted).
For the Cambridge News, I oversaw all features content, including daily centre spreads, news backgrounders, columnists and commercial features, and edited three weekly pull-outs – What’s On, a 7-day arts and entertainment guide, Living, a 12-page lifestyle supplement, and TV Week, a 32-page television viewing guide, plus a range of special publications.
April 2005 – October 2009
Features Editor, Cambridge News. As above.
December 2001 – April 2005
Features Editor, Reading Chronicle. Wrote, designed and edited Weekender arts, entertainment and lifestyle magazine. In 2004, I was promoted to Deputy Regional Head of Features for the whole of Trinity Mirror Southern, managing a team of writer/subs providing 300+ feature pages per week to more than 50 newspapers across London and the South East.
April – December 2001
Freelance journalist. Writer, sub-editor and editor for national and local newspapers, magazines, websites and corporate publications.
November 1999 – April 2001
Launch Editor, Basingstoke Observer. Editor of start-up weekly newspaper in Basingstoke, Hampshire.
November 1998 – November 1999
Freelance journalist. Writer, sub-editor and editor for national and local newspapers, magazines, websites and corporate publications.
January 1996 – November 1998
Deputy Editor, Bracknell News. I was also News Editor until October 1997.
January 1994 – January 1996
Reporter, Reading Chronicle
I am also a regular freelance writer for a number of magazines, newspapers and online publications.