BBC
I joined BBC East Midlands as a ‘Freelance Social Media Journalist’ for a few months which has really helped me hone my social media skills.
Utilising my skills from my journalism degree along with my passion of social media, I know have the opportunity to combine the two to help important news to be seen across the East Midlands.
Creating and scheduling posts for Facebook, Instagram and X, along with video editing and producing voice overs to produce established pieces of social for all platforms.
DERBY BOOK FESTIVAL
Since February, I have joined Derby Book Festival as their Social Media and Marketing Assistant. Helping to create social media posts and marketing ideas to promote the two festivals each year, along with other events and local author talks. Derby Book Festival is a charity, we help support people giving them a sense of community with our Shared Reading project with local reading groups in libraries, nursing homes, hospitals and prisons – hoping to change lives and give people someone to talk to through reading and poetry.
Here are just a few of my responsibilities in this role:
- Creating social media posts on Canva and Capcut which I then schedule using Hootsuite
- Producing regular newsletters to subscribers on Mailchimp
- Creating events and their tickets on the website, whilst reguarly maintaining and changing aspects of the website to stay up to date on Craft CMS
- In the summer, I had the pleasure of interviewing two Sunday Times Bestseller fantasy authors in front of a paying crowd to hear more about these brilliant books and the authors
- Volunteering at events ensuring the prefect event for the public and the author. Whether it’s accepting tickets, selling books, showing guests to their seats and helping in anyway and ensuring authors are happy. All whilst taking photo and video content and posting to all socials
- Helped increase our followers on Instagram, Facebook and Linkedin by almost 1500 since I started in February
BOOKSFORTIKTOK
Five years ago I decided to create my own TikTok account focusing on my love of reading and. Now with over 6000 followers, I have had the pleasure of connecting with incredible publishers, authors and other content creators on the app.
Companies that have sent me PR:
- Harper Collins
- Pan Macmillan
- Penguin
- Papier
- Usbourne
- Tandem Collective
- Headline
- Avon Books
I have also been extremely lucky to have attended multiple events due to my TikTok account from ‘Usbourne’ and ‘Hatchette’.
PLATFORM MAGAZINE
As my role as Head of Marketing and Treasurer at the university magazine my work consisted of improving our social media accounts, our views and engagement on their website and also reviewing and covering multiple music events across the city.
Follow this link to my page which showcases more of my work at Platform Magazine.
POM X REDBULL
Internship taking place with dating app ‘POM’ as a Social Media, PR and Events Intern. My time included creating and establishing guerilla marketing ideas, TikTok ideas and helping to plan and carry out a networking event in collaboration with Redbull.
Being in charge of DMing artists, influencers, and companies perfect for the industry networking event – I put together a comprehensive excel spreadsheet to then work the door for guests to enjoy and connect with the 11 upcoming London artists we hosted at the HQ along with other guests.
UNIVERSITY WORK
DISSERTATION
For my dissertation I decided to focus on the topic of ‘The Dark Side of Romance’, looking into the affects of reading adult books too young. In all three elements of my dissertation: Online article, magazine print and essay, I received a first.
My online article is available to view on Shorthand.
MAGAZINE JOURNALISM
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