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    Jon Parker

    Jon Parker

    Nationally-published journalist and publicist

    City of Westminster, United Kingdom

    I am a freelance journalist with experience that includes jobs at three national newspapers and editor-level positions at three titles. I have extensive experience both in print...Read moreI am a freelance journalist with experience that includes jobs at three national newspapers and editor-level positions at three titles. I have extensive experience both in print and online, and have been published in titles including The Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Independent, Times and Observer.

    I also have extensive experience in legal publishing, having held staff jobs at The Lawyer and Legal Week, and have online experiece that includes extensive use of a CMS.



    Area Covered: London
    Work Experience Summary: June 2010 - present
    Freelance/acting Commissioning Editor, Legal Week Law
    - Editing and promoting legal briefings online, writing weekly mailshot
    - Finishing book manuscript

    March 31, 2009 � June 2010
    Online Editor, eGaming Review
    - Edited online news, features and blogs
    - Managed reporters, creating �newswire� culture from �periodical� one
    - Produced daily Snapshot HTML mailshot
    - Re-launched site with new web developers
    - Commissioned features, interviews

    - Increased daily page views from circ.100 to 6000+
    - Successfully created culture of UGC, readers posting daily
    - Raised profile of EGR brand online

    February 2008 � March 2009
    Online Editor, The Lawyer
    - Online news and blog editor
    - Commissioned features, special reports
    - Re-launched site with new web developers
    - Wrote daily Lawyer News Daily comment email (51,000 subscribers)
    - Wrote daily New on TheLawyer.com column on homepage
    - Edited twice-weekly The Lawyer in New York email (67,000 subscribers)
    - Moderated reader comments, UGC

    - Increased traffic 107% in first year
    - Lawyer News Daily email subscriptions from 37,000 to 51,000
    - Lawyer in New York email subscriptions from 34,000 to 67,000
    - Set up new Litigation Weekly email for recession-boosted litigation market
    - Launched local government law conference with events team

    2007
    Freelance (see below)

    2006
    Reporter, The Lawyer
    - Legal news reporting to tight real-time deadlines
    - Regular features and interviews
    - Weekly Pro Bono/Rule of Law column
    - Specialisms: corporate, real estate, public sector, CSR

    2005
    General Election Asst. Reporter (temporary) Press Association, London
    - Covered 2005 election for live newswire.

    2004
    Writer/Researcher, The Times T2
    - Researched/wrote daily Verbatim, Home Forum columns
    - Researched/edited weekly Parent Forum, Gizmos columns
    - Arranged weekly Andrew Billen Interviews

    2003
    Special Projects Assistant, Independent/IOS
    - Conducted 60+ celebrity interviews, Review magazine
    - Feature boxes, Review magazine
    - Researched/co-wrote A-Z of Colleges and Universities guide

    FREELANCE
    - Freelance features for Daily Telegraph, Guardian, Horizon (BP), Investor (River), Solve (Wardour). General features, profiles, business, lifestyle, personal finance.
    - Editing shifts for the Associated Press, London headline desk.
    - Acting news editor, Solicitors Journal (Oct �07 � Jan �08): edited news, wrote leaders, oversaw layout.
    Education Summary: 2005, City University, London
    - Newspaper Journalism Pg Dip.
    Postgraduate course in news and features; shorthand (100wpm); media law; sub-editing, government; Quark.

    2006, Birkbeck University, London
    - International Relations, Pg-Dip

    1999-2002, University of the West of England
    - BA English/History Joint Hons, 2:1


    AWARDS

    Foreign Correspondent�s Prize 2005
    Chosen by the Finnish government from 200+ applicants to join an international group covering events across Finland throughout August 2005 - including interviews with the Finnish president and foreign minister.

    Stationers Prize 2005
    Short-listed for the annual Stationers Prize for feature writing.

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