About me
I'm a versatile and organised freelance editor, copywriter and journalist with 20 years of experience covering lifestyle subjects including travel, architecture, design, family, fashion, motoring, celebrity, gastronomy, music, beauty and business, across daily newspapers, magazines and online.
My varied career has involved interviewing Karl Lagerfeld about his golf carts as editor of pioneering car lifestyle magazine, Intersection, test-driving supercars for business daily CityA.M., overseeing travel across the Metro International newspaper group and launching a daily magazine for Red Bull Racing at the Monaco GP. As a copywriter I have produced expert content on just about everything from building facades and spa hotels to BB creams and sparkling wine.
I have a post-grad degree in garden design as well as journalism and secretly love an XL spreadsheet. I was born in Brussels and speak fluent French, but also enjoy chatting to taxi drivers in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German.
Projects
- Morrison's Cellar.comWhen it was engaged to launch Morrisons online wine shop, Cellar, marketing and communications agency Wardour enlisted me to manage the editorial. I was involved in every aspect of the process, from developing the tone of voice document and site content map, to writing and editing all content for the site as well as associated print copy. I commissioned a team of freelancers to work alongside me to produce informative but accessible, pun-packed descriptions for 1,115 wines.
- Karl Lagerfeld interviewI set up this interview with fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld when I was editing pioneering car culture magazine, Intersection. He invited me to his Paris ‘hotel particulier’ to show me his GMC van, then for a diet coke at his nearby gallery where he illustrated anecdotes on everything from his first car crash to his hair do with flamboyant sketches. Karl took the self-portraits for the magazine.
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Work history
Freelance Editor & Various Projects
I am a versatile and organised freelance editor, copywriter and journalist with 20 years of experience covering lifestyle subjects including travel, architecture, design, family, fashion, motoring, celebrity, gastronomy, film, music, beauty and business, across daily newspapers, magazines and online.
My varied career has involved interviewing Karl Lagerfeld about his golf carts as editor of pioneering car lifestyle magazine, Intersection, test-driving supercars for business daily CityA.M., overseeing travel across the Metro International newspaper group and launching a daily magazine for Red Bull Racing at the Monaco GP. As a copywriter I have produced expert content on just about everything from building facades and spa hotels to BB creams and sparkling wine.
I have a post-grad degree in garden design as well as journalism and secretly love an XL spreadsheet. I was born in Brussels and speak fluent French, but also enjoy chatting to taxi drivers in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German.
Global Travel Editor
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Editor responsible for managing and developing travel content for the Metro International newspaper group, delivering stories for publication in 100+ cities in 25 countries worldwide. Responsibilities included developing a schedule of stories relevant to a global audience that includes continental Europe, Russia, Asia and North and South America, liaising with all country editors to ensure stories worked for their market and working with other specialist editors on themed special editions.
I commissioned journalists on Metro’s local editorial teams as well as freelance journalists and wrote stories myself. I instigated additional travel supplements linked to events including the 2012 Olympics, the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton and the Diamond Jubilee. I also wrote weekly motoring and family columns and frequently wrote major interviews including Nicolas Cage, Bruce Willis and Jamie Oliver.
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Skills
- Fashion
- Copywriting
- Editing
- Journalism
- Lifestyle
- Travel
- Blogs
- Online
- News
- Proofreading
- Web Content
- Indesign
- Content and Media Writing
- Copywriting
Education
Periodical Journalism
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Post graduate diploma/MA
Politics
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BA Hons