Laura Tennant

LAURA TENNANT 12 Blashford Street London SE13 6UA 07961 100 193 [email protected]

KEY SKILLS

Print and digital magazine editor, with responsibility for coordinating all aspects of editorial content across print and online, alongside art direction, production, team management and recruitment

Experienced commissioning editor and writer, with a long track record both in online publishing, print magazines and newspapers and contract publishing

Web editor experienced at producing online content and using a content management system

Extensive experience of generating ideas, commissioning writers and editing copy across a wide range of glossies, on-line magazines and quality national newspapers

Substantial body of written work, including general features and many items on lifestyle, food, travel, the arts, fashion and women’s issues plus ‘real life’ and celebrity interviews and personal pieces

Excellent contacts among name writers, and in the fields of general features, health, beauty, fashion, travel, arts, books and lifestyle

Highly developed skills in team building, working with others and nurturing talent

CAREER SUMMARY

Currently: freelance editor, writer and content provider

Editor, The London Magazine Nov 2007-Jan 2011 The London Magazine is a monthly glossy lifestyle and property magazine and website which seeks to meet the interests of the capital’s most affluent, influential and successful inhabitants. It is a contract publishing title produced by Cedar Communications for Central London Estate Agents.

Commissioning editor, The First Post March 2006 to Nov 2007 As editor of the Life section of on-line magazine The First Post, I created and helped to design a woman’s section for the website and commissioned other columnists and features. Deputy editor, Candid Sept 2006 to Jan 2007 I deputised on Luxury Publishing’s bi-annual contract title for Candy and Candy, commissioning, editing and writing copy.

Editor, Food and Travel Magazine Oct 2004 to July 2005 Responsible for hiring entire new team of staff, planning content, style and tone of magazine, commissioning writers, editing copy, overseeing production and working with the creative director on the magazine’s visual impact. I worked against particularly tight budgetary and logistical constraints and brought several high-profile writers to a little-known magazine.

Maternity leave June 2002 to Feb 2003 Hector, born 1st July 2002

Evening Standard March 2001 to June 2002 Writer and commissioning editor on the features desk, covering fashion and lifestyle, interviewing celebrities and writing real life stories.

Saturday Telegraph Magazine July to Oct 2000 Acting features editor, maternity cover, generating celebrity interviews and general features, commissioning writers and editing copy.

Maternity leave Sept 1998 to Sept 1999 Artemis, born 15 Sept 1998

The Independent on Sunday Features editor, Jan to Aug 1998 Deputy features editor, Feb to Dec 1997 The features section of the newspaper comprised 12 pages of cover story, interview, features on sex, relationships, health, social trends, culture, children and lifestyle, and regular fashion and interiors pages.

Harpers & Queen Jan 1993 to July 1995 Senior sub-editor. Gained experience of production and the art of headline, standfirst and caption writing, and wrote features for the magazine.

Tatler July 1991 to July 1992 Feature writer. Cold-called celebrities, generated ideas and researched stories.

As a freelance writer and editor I have contributed to and consulted on numerous national newspapers and consumer titles, including: She, Easy Living, Red, Vogue, Harpers & Queen and Tatler The Guardian, the Independent, the Independent on Sunday, the Saturday Telegraph magazine, the New Statesman, Observer Woman, Observer Food, ES Magazine, the Sunday Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, and the Sunday Telegraph.

QUALIFICATIONS BA in English, 2.1 Jesus College, Cambridge A levels in English, History and Art St Paul’s Girls’ School, London

PERSONAL D.O.B 9th February 1967

INTERESTS Reading, and also writing; women’s issues; current affairs; contemporary culture particularly music, film and Web 2.0; fashion and style; health and fitness (I love to run).

REFERENCES Available on request