Homes and interiors
Georgina Probert
Freelance journalist with 10 years' experience on consumer and b2b magazines. Skills include sub-editing raw copy in Word; cutting and rewriting copy to fit on layouts in Adobe InDesign; writing engaging headlines, sells and picture captions; magazine production; writing news stories and features; managing social media accounts; writing copy for the web; search engine optimisation; using CMS systems; image manipulation in Photoshop. I also write a personal blog in my spare time about pregnancy and parenting called Muddling Through Motherhood.
United Kingdom
EMPLOYMENT SUMMARY
Freelance journalist
October 2016 to date
Recent projects include holiday cover for the Chief Sub Editor on Psychologies magazine
Time Inc UK
SUB EDITOR, Homes & Gardens magazine
January 2015 to October 2016 (on maternity leave from February 2016 to October 2016)
Kelsey Publishing & Media 10
CHIEF SUB-EDITOR/PRODUCTION EDITOR, Good Homes magazine
March 2014 to December 2014. Bought by Media 10 in September 2014
MANAGING EDITOR, Cage & Aviary Birds magazine
November 2010 to March 2014
Purple Media Solutions
EDITOR, Smile magazine, Hotel Specification International and Shopfitting Specification
August 2009 to November 2010
ASSISTANT EDITOR
The Probe and Electrical Times
November 2007 to August 2009
Art 21
EDITORIAL INTERNSHIP, Contemporary magazine
October to December 2006.
