Cecilia Russell
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Freelance editor and trainer
Gauteng, South Africa
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Consultant, editor, online teacherInter Press ServiceNov 2019 - Current (5 years 8 months)(all positions are remote and freelance) Freelance associate editor, writer, and consultant for Inter Press Service (IPS). - Editing stories and writing features - Training consulting and managing capacity building training courses. - I also cover international conferences for IPS. Since COVID-19, these have been online - Write funding proposals for the organisation. TEFL teacher for Planet English, also known as IQBar - Teach English second language children and adults from beginners to advanced - Teach Cambridge exam preparation courses for IQBar. Other freelance work - Develop digitally based journalism training courses, including one on Opinion content for Roth Communications.- Nigeria - Acting Channel Head/Output editor (Consultant)Roots TVMar 2019 - Nov 2019 (9 months)- Initially worked as the output editor. - When the initial consulting firm left, was asked to act as the Channel Head until a Nigerian editor could be found, - Developing, with the owner, the editorial strategy for the station. This included developing concepts and business plans for programming, - Manage the day-to-day operations and staff of the channel, which was on two main platforms - YouTube and Facebook. Other platforms were in the development stage, - Designed programming for launch for the digital live offering, which would initially be four hours and moving gradually to a 24-hour station, - Manage redesign of the website ahead of live digital launch, - Editing, writing of scripts for both news and documentaries, - With the
- Self-employed freelance writer, editor, and consultantSelf-employMay 2018 - Mar 2019 (11 months)During this time, I concentrated on: - Specialist report writing, - Book editing, including a non-fiction book, - Freelance content production for corporates, - Content writing for websites. Planet English, also known as IQBar (ongoing) Online English teacher - Taught English second language students speaking, reading and writing skills in preparation for the Cambridge English competency exams, - Taught English conversation and business English lessons, - Students ranged from 4 years old to adults, - I had several short-term contracts with them for 15 hours a week.
- Senior executive member of staffInfinity MediaSep 2015 - May 2018 (2 years 9 months)for ANN7 reporting to the editor, Editor of The New Age and ANN7 websites and digital offerings on Facebook and Twitter, Executive producer for investigative and human-interest documentary shows, Manage a team of reporters and producers for both of the above; Development of news strategy both daily and long-term, Executive producer for major stories, like elections coverage and the ANC policy and elective conferences, Logistics, Writing and editing of scripts, writing and editing of news stories for the websites.
- EditorSaturday Star2012 - Feb 2015 (3 years 2 months)The Saturday Star is a weekly newspaper. When I edited it, it had a 58 926 (ABC: October to December 2014) and, on average, has 207 000 readers per issue. Apart from the news, opinion, and sports sections, it has several supplements, including Personal Finance, Travel, 48 Hours (entertainment and lifestyle), Property Weekly and School Sport - Responsible for editorial strategy and implementation, including ensuring product aligned to readership; - Take overall responsibility for the newspaper's content and design and the projection of stories and features; - Manage a Travel editor, sports editor, news editor, team of reporters, photographers and subeditors; - Member of a regional executive, which is a multi-disciplinary team including
- editorIndependent Newspapers for 201995 - 2015 (20 years 1 month)Most of my time at the group was spent at The Star. Here are some of the positions I held. - Night editor, managing on day editions of The Star; - News editor (two stints of approximately four years each) managing the desk, the news agenda and a staff of about 27 people; - Project manager, member of a senior editorial team who started a successful tabloid paper in Cape Town called the Daily Voice, also was the founder editor for a national entertainment supplement Tonight; - Writing trainer and coach (have edited alone and with a team, more than 20 award-winning journalism projects); - General and political reporter for The Star.
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- Bachelor of Arts Honours Social AnthropologyUniversity of the Witwatersrand
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- WWriting trainer and coach (have edited alone and with a team, more than 20 award-winning journalism projects)
- BBachelor of Arts Honours, Social Anthropology 1981