CV

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Specialties

- Editorial strategy from macro to micro levels
- Identifying and delivering efficiency savings
- Maximising the commercial opportunities of quality content
- User experience & Information Architecture
- Social media strategy

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Current position

Managing Editor, MSN International Editorial Solutions, Microsoft
July 2011 – Present

- Heading up multi-market content planning, production and coordination for MSN International
- Working for and with 50 MSN country portal teams across 26 languages
- Covering breaking news, regular features, evergreen content, special events and commercial/advertorial specials across every subject under the sun (especially News, Entertainment, Celebrity, Lifestyle, Tech & Gadgets, Cars, Travel and Sport)
- Managing the global editorial calendar
- Managing the global photo budget
- Managing a small but efficient team of editors
- Promoting best practice to and coordinating c.300 editors worldwide
- Presenting and evangelising to various teams at numerous internal conferences and events around the world (the US, the Netherlands, Greece, France, Korea, Japan, etc.)

- Also part of the MSN International CMS development team, planning and testing new features in close conjunction with colleagues from the engineering/tech side of the business, with a core focus on the CMS’s UX, Information Architecture, editorial workflow efficiency, and specialising in advising on developing tools to facilitate editorial planning and maximise the potential and multi-market scalability of original content

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Past employment: Key projects 2000-present

- Regional Editor, MSN EMEA
- Portal Manager, MSN Ireland
- Editor, MSN Ireland
- Editor, MSN South Africa
- Managing Editor at OpenDemocracy.net
- Homepage News Editor at AOL UK
- Online Editor, Pocket Films at BBC Worldwide
- Editor at Gibson Square Books
- Managing Editor at Definitely Mably Creative Services
- Acting Editor, Heritage magazine
- Web Project Manager at Publicis Blueprint
- Writer for the Times Literary Supplement
- Information Architect / Social Media Consultant at Bluequest Media
- Co-authoring two books for Virgin Publishing
- Regional Editor for London at VirginStudent.com
- Researcher to an MP at the House of Commons
- Travel writer for Visit Britain & Visit London
- Film and restaurant reviewer for various publications
- Numerous other ad hoc freelance writing, editing and subbing assignments/commissions, both in print and online

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Awards and nominations:

- Winner, European Parliament Prize for Journalism 2010
- Jury’s Commendation, 2008 UACES-Reuters Reporting Europe Awards
- Shortlisted, Best UK Blog, 2005 and 2008 Weblog Awards
- Runner-up, 2005 Guardian Political Weblog Awards
- Shortlisted, 2004 Deutsche Welle International “Bobs”

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For a more detailed CV or any other enquiries, email info [at] jcm.org.uk or try my LinkedIn profile