Steven Chisholm

Experience

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  Johnston Press

  Jan 2007 - Mar 2021

  Overall responsibility for digital performance across Scottish and Northern Irish news portfolio.Supported editorial teams in Scotland and Northern Ireland with editorial strategy, audience and revenue development. Titles include The Scotsman, Newsletter, Edinburgh Evening News, Falkirk Herald, Fife Free Press and the Derry Journal.Oversaw successful launch of paywalls on Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News and NewsLetter websites, achieved record page view and user growth across Scottish digital portfolio.Oversaw restructure of Scottish newsrooms embedding a digital-first culture, modern workflow and new CMS roll-out. Show less Managed a team that wrote, edited, designed and coordinated the use of shared feature pages and shared digital content for titles across Johnson press print and digital portfolio. Led central commercial supplements service, supporting significant business revenues.Scotsman Motors contributing writer.Launch Editor for the Cars digital vertical on inews.co.ukManaged third party content relationships for Johnston PressManaged central print design and production hub for jp titles in Scotland and Northern Ireland Show less Oversaw the launch of Johnston Press Scotland's first centralised print production, design and subbing hub, managing the production of Johnston Press' full portfolio of print weekly newspapers in Scotland as well as design services for the daily Edinburgh Evening News . Expanded hub operations to cover Johnston Press Northern Ireland and Irish operations, including the production of the flagship daily title The NewsLetter.Operations later expanded to include oversight of The Scotsman's production rota and budget. Show less

  • Head of Audience | Scotland and Northern Ireland

    Jun 2018 - Mar 2021

  • Group common content editor

    Jun 2015 - Jun 2018

  • Edinburgh Design Hub Manager

    Jan 2012 - Jun 2015

  • Production Journalist and page designer

    Jan 2009 - Jan 2012

  • Page planner

    Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

  • Ad Make up operator

    Jan 2007 - Jan 2008
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  The South Edinburgh Echo

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2009

  Sub Editor

  Page layout and sub-editor on hyperlocal newspaper. Supported redesign and relaunch of the product and undertook weekly subbing shifts.

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  Matchday Media Scotland Ltd.

  Jan 2009 - Jan 2010

  Design Director

  Company director and design lead for small business publishing sporting programmes for lower tier Scottish football clubs and one-off events for sports institutions.

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  JPIMedia

  Nov 2018 - Sept 2022

  Overall responsibility for digital performance across Scottish and Northern Irish news portfolio.Supported editorial teams in Scotland and Northern Ireland with editorial strategy, audience and revenue development. Titles include The Scotsman, Newsletter, Edinburgh Evening News, Falkirk Herald, Fife Free Press and the Derry Journal.Oversaw successful launch of paywalls on Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News and NewsLetter websites, achieved record page view and user growth across Scottish digital portfolio.Oversaw restructure of Scottish newsrooms embedding a digital-first culture, modern workflow and new CMS roll-out. Show less

  • Group Audience Editor

    Mar 2021 - Sept 2022

  • Head of audience, Scotland and Northern Ireland

    Nov 2018 - Mar 2021
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  National World plc

  Apr 2022 - now

  Executive direction of digital reader revenue and known user strategy for National World Publishing. Developing strategies that drive active, known user growth, newsletter engagement and digital subscription revenue growth. Led digital audience and vertical strategy for JPI Media, later relaunched as National World Publishing. Oversight of the JPI network's engagement operations, SEO team, Google Showcase operations, Newsletter, registration and digital subscriptions team and video departments.Led expansion,recruitment and consolidation of specialist digital-only teams to support growth in audience, registrations and video views.Doubled network video views and revenue.

  • Customer Director

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Group Audience Editor

    Apr 2022 - Sept 2022
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  The Scotsman

  Mar 2024 - now

  General Manager

  General Manager for The Scotsman publications as it embarks on an exciting new phase of development.