Rob Buckley

Experience

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  Experimental Psychology Society

  Sept 1994 - May 1995

  Editorial Assistant

  Administrative tasks for the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, including liaising with referees and developing the in-house database.

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  ProQuest

  Jan 1995 - Jan 1996

  Proofreader

  Freelance proofreader, checking proofs of indices and transcripts for CD ROM databases.

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  Cambridge News & Media

  May 1995 - Feb 1997

  Mac Operator

  Laying out pages for the Cambridge Evening News and its sister weekly newspapers in QuarkXPress and Photoshop. Helped to develop the newspapers' first web site.

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  Pearson

  Sept 1996 - Dec 1998

  Editor, Mapping Awareness

  Promoted from assistant editor to associate editor to deputy editor and then editor of geospatial magazine Mapping Awareness. All editorial tasks, including budget management, subbing, writing and managing staff, as well as some layout work. Awarded Journalist of the Year runner's up prize in 1998 by the AGI for my work.I was also IT manager for the company, looking after Macs, PCs and servers.

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  Centaur Media Plc

  Jan 1999 - Jul 2000

  Technical Editor

  Writing and editing about TV, film and advertising production for Televisual, the UK's top magazine for producers. Development of databases for monthly surveys and data analysis.

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  Dreamwatch

  Jul 2000 - Oct 2000

  Editor

  Relaunch editor for the TV and film magazine, commissioning, editing and writing articles, liaising with advertisers, page-planning and more.

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  Infoconomy

  Nov 2000 - Mar 2003

  Web Editor

  Editing the online presence of IT and finance magazines The Infoconomist and Information Age. Some Tcl/Tk, HTML and CSS development. Developed and coded an email newsletter to advertise new features of the site and magazines. Daily use of the ArsDigita CMS. Some French and German translation work for a daily summary of European papers. Later retained as freelance consultant to write for the magazines, edit newsletters and magazines, and add features to the CMS.

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  Self-employed

  Mar 2003 - now

  Freelance Editor and Journalist

  Freelance sub-editor, proofreader and production editor. Available for work on consumer, trade and contract magazines, newspapers, books and websites. In-depth knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite (including InDesign) and QuarkXPress.Also experienced in online subbing, SEO, social media and CMS, including WordPress, Movable Type, Affino, concrete 5 and ArsDigita. Markets covered include healthcare, transport, travel, finance, technology, education, law and media.Clients include The Times, the BBC, SC Magazine, MacFormat, Macworld, Inside Housing, The Law Society Gazette, MoneyWeek, EducationInvestor, Business Franchise, MacUser, Death Ray, Total Content and Media, Tesco Food, and Carlton Books. Show less

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  Company and Shareholder

  Sept 2003 - Mar 2004

  Chief Sub-editor

  Remote subbing and proofing of Word and PDF documents using an online production system for a magazine about corporate social responsibility.

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  Highbury House Communications plc, 38 Titles

  Oct 2003 - Mar 2006

  Features Writer

  Main feature writer, reviewer and helpdesk editor for Highbury's popular Mac title iCreate

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  The Medium is Not Enough

  Jun 2005 - Aug 2022

  Blogger

  Award-winning writer and publisher of The Medium is Not Enough, one of the UK's most popular media blogs. I provide daily news about UK, US and international TV, as well as reviews and other articles, and conduct SEO work for all entries. As a result, I was the US TV expert for BBC Radio 5 Live's Saturday Edition and have contributed UK and US TV reviews to Afternoon Edition as well. CMS used include Movable Type and WordPress. Social media promotion using TweetDeck, Facebook and Instagram. Some PHP, HTML and CSS development. Show less

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  Future

  Nov 2005 - Jan 2013

  Writer

  Regular reviewer, tutorial writer and feature writer for Future's leading Mac magazine MacFormat. I also featured on MacFormat's podcast and wrote for other Future titles including Practical Web Design, Computer Arts, Computer Arts Projects and .net

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  TV Scoop

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2006

  Blogger

  Writing about and reviewing TV for Shiny Media’s TV Scoop blog. CMS used was Movable Type.

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  Haymarket Media Group

  Jun 2006 - Jan 2014

  Features Writer

  I was a regular contributor of features on policy, processes and technology to Haymarket's leading IT security magazine, SC Magazine

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  RCNi

  Oct 2006 - now

  Remote monthly editing of papers for healthcare journals, including subbing copy, and checking and formatting references, tables, statistics and figures in Microsoft Office. Some in-house layout work in QuarkXPress, InDesign and Photoshop Editing articles for the online journal Nurse Researcher

  • Sub-editor

    Jun 2006 - now

  • Production editor, Nurse Researcher

    Oct 2006 - now
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  Transport Times | News & Analysis | Events

  Apr 2007 - Jun 2017

  Production Editor

  Laying out, subbing, proofing, correcting, PDFing and uploading the editorial and adverts of a 40+ page magazine every month, as well as supplements and event brochures. Systems used included Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe CS 2 on Mac and Windows.

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  Crew magazine

  Aug 2009 - Oct 2009

  Technology and Gadget Editor

  Writing about new gadgets and top IT consumer trends for a magazine aimed at airline crews.

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  Investor Publishing

  Jul 2010 - May 2015

  Features Writer

  I was a regular writer of features about education investment opportunities and developments for EducationInvestor

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  Jisc

  Sept 2010 - Jun 2013

  Freelance Journalist

  I attended JISC conferences, and wrote up the proceedings for WordPress blog entries, JISC’s Inform magazine, and future briefing notes for executives and students.

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  Newtrade

  Oct 2011 - Aug 2022

  In-house and remote laying out, subbing, PDF-ing and uploading pages of weekly, biweekly and monthly titles for the retail and wholesale trades using Creative Cloud. Online subbing in concrete 5 and WordPress

  • Sub-editor

    Mar 2004 - Aug 2022

  • Chief sub-editor, Better Wholesaling

    Oct 2011 - Jul 2018
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  The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health

  Nov 2011 - Nov 2018

  Sub-editor

  Responsible for subbing the monthly magazine of the CIEH, Environmental Health News, in InDesign CS6 on Mac. Proofing of the institute’s annual financial reports and books The Stuff of Life and Putting Wrong Things Right.

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  Geoconnexion

  Dec 2012 - Mar 2024

  Editor, GeoConnexion International

  Monthly editing of a magazine about geospatial technologies and information. Responsible for commissioning features from writers around the world, sourcing images, page-planning, writing copy, subbing, proofing, managing designers remotely and correcting layouts in PageTrak.

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  Flame Tree Publishing Ltd

  Jan 2015 - Mar 2015

  Technical Editor

  Providing social media technical expertise for the book Social Media Marketing Basics to ensure it was accurate, current and covered best practice. Wrote the foreword

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  Ocean Media Group Ltd.

  Feb 2019 - Dec 2021

  Regular freelance sub-editor for Inside Housing magazine, working online in Affino CMS and in print with Adobe Creative Cloud. Main sub-editor for the magazine's print supplements. Some feature writing Chief sub-editor for bi-annual prestige architecture magazine The Developer

  • Sub-editor

    Sept 2018 - Dec 2021

  • Chief Subeditor

    Feb 2019 - Apr 2020
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  Financial News

  Apr 2021 - now

  Deputy production editor

  Subbing, laying out and sending to print and digital outlets Dow Jones' website and weekly finance newspaper for the City