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Louise Bolotin

Louise Bolotin

Journalist
Manchester, GB
branchout.com/Louise.Bolotin

Summary

Freelance journalist, editor and copywriter with 32 years' experience. Client-focused, flexible, with excellent organizational skills, used to tight deadlines.

Journalism - I write for the Guardian, Observer and various magazines.

Editing - full range of on-screen copy-editing services for publishers and businesses.

Copywriting - I specialise in producing corporate communications (web copy, newsletters and brochures, annual reports etc).

Author, Epilepsy the Essential Guide (pub. May 2009).

Skills

Copy Editing Radio Twitter Communications Facebook PR Blogging Media Internet Editing Corporate Communications Newsletters … See More

Specialties

Subjects include: business and management, charities, cultural studies, disability issues, English as a foreign/second language, investment banking and finance, fitness/health, food and drink, gender studies, human rights, music (popular, rock), personal development (general, sexuality, relationships)

Work History

PlainText 2005 - Present

Journalist, editor (owner)

News and feature writing (journalism).

Copy-editing, substantive editing, editing English as a foreign language, consultancy (editorial), copywriting, house styles, on-screen editing, on-screen proofreading, project management, rewriting, speech-writing, translating (French into English), web page/site editing, etc.

Media covered: books, company literature, magazines, newsletters, newspapers, online materials, press releases, websites etc.
Inside the M60 2010 - 2011

Journalist, co-founder

Hyperlocal news for Manchester's communities
BBC Radio Manchester 2010 - 2010

Journalist

Generating feature ideas for Heather Stott show, pre-interviewing guests, writing cues etc.
Developing news leads for Beswick at Breakfast, making packages. Responsible for coordinating coverage of 20th anniversary of the Strangeways riot, including the scoop of Lord Woolf talking exclusively to Radio Manchester on his role in the inquiry and report on prison reform proposals.
ING Financial Markets 2001 - 2004

Financial Editor

As financial editor, I was responsible for fast and accurate editing of equity analysis reports on a daily basis, working with equity analysts based in more than eight European countries. Reports ranged in size from 1 to 90 pages and covered a huge range of industry sectors.
European Cultural Foundation, Amsterdam 1996 - 2001

Communications Officer

Responsible for producing the ECF newsletter three times a year (commissioning, writing, editing, overseeing production), writing and editing the annual report, providing in-house editorial services, writing company literature (brochures, web copy etc).
Various 1990 - 1991

Freelance subeditor

Freelance subeditor at various consumer and trade magazines (inc. Auto Express, Screen International, The Journalist, Campaign, Best, Media Week).
The Public Ledger 1988 - 1988

Editor

Editor of the UK's oldest daily newspaper (commodities).

Education

University of Leeds 1988

BA Ord

English