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honest | enthusiastic | friendly | hard working | tenacious | night owl
I am an award-winning freelance journalist and copywriter with more than 20 years of experience writing news, features, and online content for newspapers, magazines, and corporate websites. Quick and thorough, I can create engaging content on a wide range of subjects and am adept at adapting my style to a variety of audiences.
Nuances
No subject is dull if it's presented in a lively way. My key skills include simplifying complicated topics and combining an entertaining writing style with a high level of accuracy and research.
Rate
Rate Weighting
£400-£700
subject matter, research requirement, word count, timeframe, working relationship
Specialist areas
Finance
Business
HR
Employee Benefits
Mental Health Technology
Sports
Aviation Consumer Rights
Lifestyle
Core Services
Content Production
Tools
Adobe Photoshop / MS Word / MS Excel / Trello / Wordpress CMS
Hashtag Highlights
#contentproduction #freelancejournalist #journalist #awardwinning #copywriter #news #features #newswriter #featureswriter #accurace #research #onlinecontent #newspapers #magazines #engaging #engagingcontent #recruitmentwriter #hrwriter
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Testimonials
Abigail Klapp Consultant at Wonder Consultancy
“A highly experienced journalist, copywriter and editor, Jessica is a quick and thorough researcher with experience of writing news, features, advertorials, and online content on a wide range of subjects for newspapers, magazines and websites.”
Writing samples
Recent samples of my writing are provided below. Please note: I do not have editorial control over all published content.
Tricks and tools for better working from home
When one of Louise Halford's staff members returned from a ski trip with flu-like symptoms, she advised him to work from home rather than risk bringing the coronavirus into the office. Ms Halford also decided to work from home after feeling some possible symptoms as well.
High-tech ways to keep employees happy
Half-price cinema tickets, cycle to work schemes and gym passes have long been part of employee benefits programmes. But with research showing 84% of millennials look to leave their jobs within the first two years, employers want to tailor their perks packages to their employees' needs.
How to get the best from your millennials - AAT Comment
The 'millennial generation' tend to get a bad rep in the media, but if you can harness this new generation of talent, they could be the jumpstart your business needs. Millennials - born roughly between 1980 and 2000 - are redefining the workplace.
You've got to fight for your right to shut the pay gap
New rules forcing companies with 250 or more employees to report gender pay gaps will come into force in just 10 days. About a third of employers have published data ahead of the April 4 deadline, revealing some big discrepancies between what men and women earn.
Barack Obama flies to island in French Polynesia to relax at luxury resort 'The Brando'
Mr Obama is thought to be taking time out in the South Pacific to write his memoirs, for which he and Michelle are reported to have signed a deal worth $60 million with publisher Penguin Random House. He is expected to visit some of the other islands in French Polynesia, including honeymoon hotspot Bora Bora, during his stay.
Facebook: the latest way to transfer cash
As the services are currently available only in America, the linked accounts must also be US based. Once set up, they are quick and easy to use. To send money via Facebook Messenger, for example, all you have to do then is open a chat with a friend, press "More" and then tap the $ icon followed by "Pay".
World Sports Coverage
British adventurer completes first round-the-world flight in a gyrocopter
On 22 September 2019, British pilot James Ketchell completed the first ever round-the-world flight in a gyrocopter. The total length of his journey, which took him through France, Russia, Canada, and Iceland, was 24,000 nautical miles - well over the 37,000 km he needed to fly to set the first ever FAI world record for speed around the world in a gyrocopter*.
FAI at the Olympism in Action Forum: the future of sport
FAI Secretary General Susanne Schödel joined a panel of experts at the recent Olympism in Action Forum in Buenos Aires, Argentina to debate the question: What is the Future of Sport? Observed by some 1,500 spectators including International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, the lively discussion covered the various ways young people today are reinventing the definition of "sport" and what it means to be an athlete.
An air sport for all: "Drone racing makes me feel free!"
Italian pilot Luisa Rizzo's life changed when her father bought her a drone "to help me move", giving the 16-year-old wheelchair user from Lecce in Southern Italy a sense of freedom she had never felt before. "I loved flying my drone, so I decided to try racing," she said. “There are not many drone racing pilots in Italy, so I mainly trained alone. But I enjoyed it so much I trained every day.”
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