About me

Recently qualified NCTJ multimedia journalist seeking opportunities to work in sports and/or music journalism, editing and proofreading.

Skills

Creative Writing, Proofreading, Sub-editing (Quark Xpress and Adobe InDesign), News Reporting, Feature Writing, Blogging

Sector Experience

SNS Nutrition (2012), This was voluntary work for a start-up business selling health and fitness supplements and offering training advice to athletes and gym-users. I was briefed to:, - Write personal opinion-based articles, for casual gym-users, about my own training experiences, - Write reviews about various sports supplements that I have used., Horsham Sub-editing Hub (2-Week Placement), Horsham, Sussex (2012), This was a brief work placement for Johnston Press that involved:, - Shadowing the sub-editing team that work on various Sussex newspapers., - Learning how to use professional editing software., - Use the skills that I learned to assist the team with editing articles and designing pages across multiple publications that were eventually published.

Awards

NCTJ National Diploma in Journalism, BA Creative Writing Degree