Simone Castello
September 29, 2009 by admin · 0
SIMONE CASTELLO – freelance writer and editor
FREELANCE EDITOR/PROOFREADER/WRITER/TUTOR/TRANSLATOR Aug 08 to date: Freelance journalist, editor and product tester. Editor of NCT newsletter in Rugby: writing, editing and commissioning. Translation (mostly Italian into English but have translated from English into Italian) and tutoring (taught Italian to individuals and at an adult education centre in Rugby).
FREELANCE EDITOR/PROOFREADER/WRITER Jan 07-Aug 08: Editing financial reports, copyediting a bilingual contract publication. Coeditor of NCT newsletter in London: commissioning, laying out pages, writing and advertising.
FREELANCE SENIOR/CHIEF SUBEDITOR/WRITER Mar-Dec 06: Emap (Pregnancy & Birth); Hachette (Sugar); Haymarket (Third Sector); ILN (contract publisher: transport and travel titles); IPC Media (Cage & Aviary Birds, Ideal Home); Ten Media (Channel 4’s 4 Homes); The National Magazine Company (Reveal); Trinity Mirror (Take It Easy).
CONTRACT/SENIOR SUBEDITOR Sept 05-Mar 06: Bauer (TV Quick, TV Choice). Some writing.
FREELANCE SENIOR/CHIEF SUBEDITOR/WRITER Oct 00-Sept 05: Attic Futura (B); Bauer (Bella, Real, Take a Break specials, TV Quick, TV Choice); BBC Worldwide (Big, Disney, Good Food, Good Homes, Homes & Antiques); Boston Hannah (contract publisher: financial, trade and sports magazines; multi-language editions); Centaur (Data Strategy, Precision Marketing); Hachette (Red, Sugar); Hubert Burda Media UK (The Party Magazine); Emap (Bliss, Closer, Construction News, Escape Routes, FHM, Heat, Here’s Health, Health Plus, More, Period Living & Traditional Homes, Top Sante’); Express (New!); Highbury House (Pregnancy); ILN (transport and travel titles); Interactive Investor (Moneywise, II website); IPC Media (Cage & Aviary Birds, Bird Keeper, Country Homes & Interiors, Essentials, In Style, Mizz, Now, Woman & Home, Woman’s Journal, Woman’s Own, Woman’s Weekly); The National Magazine Company (Best, Company, Men’s Health, Prima, Prima Baby, She, Zest); New Crane (advertorials for Sainsbury’s); News Corporation (News of the World’s Sunday, The Sun’s TV Mag); Northern & Shell (Star magazine); Trinity Mirror (Take It Easy). Online editing, writing, interviewing and product sourcing. Worked on bilingual publications (Italian/English) as editor and translator.
CONTRACT/SENIOR SUBEDITOR Apr-Dec 00: Acting senior subeditor at The National Magazine Company (Prima). Some writing.
FREELANCE SUBEDITOR Aug 99-Mar 00: Bauer (Take A Break); Centaur (The Engineer); Emap (Mother & Baby, New Woman, Slimming, Top Sante’); IPC Media (Minx); The National Magazine Company (Best, Prima); Telewest (Cable Guide). Some writing.
STAFF JOB Oct 98-Aug 99: Subeditor at Property Week: news, finance and features; layout work using/creating templates. Responsible for legal and professional pages; people page and letters page. Some writing and interviewing.
FREELANCE SUBEDITOR Feb 97-Oct 98: BBC Worldwide (Gardeners’ World, Radio Times); Emap (Mother & Baby, Nursing Times, Slimming); Haymarket (GP); Highbury House (Digital Photography, Video Camera, What Cellphone, What Video & TV, Women’s Health); The National Magazine Company (Best); Writers & Readers (general interest guides). Some writing.
PROOFREADER/REVIEWER/TELEPHONE & DATABASE RESEARCHER May 94-Feb 97: Boulevard Books (literature anthologies); Columbus Press (travel guides/trade directories); Data Management Services (marketing directories); Jane’s Information Group (Defence Weekly, International Defense Review); The Television Register (media/advertising directories). Some writing. Worked on directories and books (Italian/English) as translator and researcher.
EDUCATION 86-93 Doctor in Political Sciences, University of Turin. Thesis on English history based on research carried out at The British Library. 80-85: Foreign Languages Diploma. Languages spoken: Italian (mothertongue standard), French (fluent), German (basic).
FURTHER TRAINING 96 to date: Law for Journalists; Better Subbing; English for Journalists. Sub-editing (London College of Communication, formerly London College of Printing); Improve Your Writing: features and copywriting. Software: InDesign; QuarkXpress. Breastfeeding Support.
INTERESTS Reading, writing, arts and crafts, gardening, swimming
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