Printer friendly ]Freelance Full editorial service London, Greater London, UK
Complete editorial service from top-level journalist, 15 years on Daily Mail. Writing, research, editing, layout, proofing & pre-press. Also HTML and website proofing & testing. Unsocial hours welcome
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| Hourly Rate / Cost: | £27.78 per hour |
| Daily Rate / Cost: | £222.22 per day |
| Available From: | Now |
| Seller ID: | 253946 |
 : Offers a discounted hourly rate to registered charities |
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14 November 2008: Reliable, helpful and very hard working, Roger is to be recommended to all potential employers.
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19 March 2008: Roger was an excellent find, he came in and was immediately productive. Roger completed the assignment on time on budget and to a very high standard. We were totally satisfied and can recommend him without reservation.
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CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé
Thirty years' experience in most forms of communication. Have worked on titles such as Daily Mail, Mail On Sunday, Daily Express, The Independent, The Sun, CNN, Teletext, Evening Standard, magazines and a number of regional titles and local press. Majority of work has been in sub-editing and production, but also been a reporter and feature writer, news editor, arts writer and music reviewer, advertising copywriter, researcher and PR consultant. Have moved into pre-press work recently.
* Proofreader for corporate publishers including:
* CarnegieOrr
* Salter Baxter
* Bell & Co
* Addison Corporate Marketing
* Sub-editor, British Council magazine for Hot Courses. March 2008
* Sub-editor E-Financial news (online) and Private Equity News (print)
* Contributor Icon Magazine (feature writing) April 2008
* Editor: European Business School newsletter (32pp no ads) for client Regent’s College, Regent’s Park
* Production editor Managing The Arts Worldwide
* Text editor (sub-editor), Aspinalls Magazine (Luxury Publishing, SW6),
* Annabel’s Wine and Cellar magazine, Spears Wealth Management Survey.
* Sub-editor The Independent.
* Text editing and copywriting for Signum Media (independent media/ advertising/PR agency in Wales
* Layout sub-editor Daily Mail (4 x casual shifts weekly in recent months)
* Contractual provider of quiz questions for Bamboozle! on ITV/ Channel 4 analogue, digital and (soon) online.
Employment History
(Jun 1995 to Apr 2009)
Features sub-editor
LondonFeatures desk sub-editor (casual)
(Oct 1992 to Jun 2007)
Senior sub-editor
LondonAll editorial roles including interim chief sub-editor, senior sub editor, duty editor, night editor, arts reporter and music reviewer plus in-house trainer
(Nov 2003 to Jul 2004)
Text writer and sub-editor
CNN, LondonOne of CNN Text's launch team; more than 40 shifts in first eight months, breaking stories of global importance
(1989 to 1992)
Sub-editor (features)
Birmingham PostSub editor, features dept,
At various times other roles incl. Stone sub, TV critic, diarist, letters page expert.
Education
(Oct 1973 to Jun 1976)
University of Sussex
BA (hons) Higher 2nd class
Assignment History
(This Seller has recently been shortlisted or contracted for the following people4 assignments)
- Magazine Consultancy: One day consultancy required to advise on layout and processes to produce new magazine for the cleantech investor industry. Follow on work possible
- Freelance sub editor : Freelance sub editor required for two days work next Monday 3rd November 2008 and Wednesday 5th November 2008. Must be able to use In Design (Apple Mac) job is sub editing and laying out News on the Block Magazine.
- Creative designer required. You’ll be putting together magazine style newsletters, promotional landing pages, flash banners & e-marketing media for BeautyBay.com, the UK's leading online retailer for luxury beauty products, so you’ll need experience in Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, HTML, CSS, typography etc to bring your ideas to life. You must have a superb design portfolio.
- Production/ sub editor to import text, headlines, standfirsts, pull-quotes, captions and photos to templates and layout pages; liaise with publisher and editor regarding changes and final layouts; produce high-res and low-res pdfs of editorial and advertisement page and send them to printer and publisher.
- Acting as production editor for quarterly magazine. Applying company style, editing for grammar, spelling, consistencyand page size. Draft layout on Quark. Varies between 44 and 60 pages inc cover.
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Categories & Freelance Skills
Media & Creative
Categories
Skills
- Acrobat (Adobe)
- Adobe
- Annual Reports
- Books
- Business & City (Writing)
- Business to Business (Journalism - Magazines)
- Consumer (Journalism - Magazines)
- Contract/Customer (Journalism - Magazines)
- Copywriting (Writing)
- Creative Writing (Writing)
- CVs (Writing)
- Editorial Management (Editing)
- Graphic Design
- Home Affairs (Writing)
- InDesign (Adobe)
- InDesign
- International (Writing)
- Local Daily (Journalism - Newspapers)
- Local Free (Journalism - Newspapers)
- Local Weekly (Journalism - Newspapers)
- Magazines (Journalism)
- Magazines
- Marketing Copy (Writing)
- National Daily (Journalism - Newspapers)
- National Weekly (Journalism - Newspapers)
- Newsletters (Writing)
- Newspaper Editing (Editing)
- Newspaper Supplement (Journalism - Magazines)
- Newspapers (Journalism)
- Newspapers
- Page & Book Layout
- Photoshop (Adobe)
- Pre-Press Management (Printing)
- Press Releases (Writing)
- Production Journalism (Journalism)
- Production Management (Printing)
- Promotional Material
- Proof Reading (Editing)
- QuarkXPress
- Regional Daily (Journalism - Newspapers)
- Regional Free (Journalism - Newspapers)
- Regional Weekly (Journalism - Newspapers)
- Sport (Writing)
- Sub-editing (Journalism)
- Sub-editing (Editing)
- Web Content (Writing)
- Website Editing (Editing)
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