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Cate Devine

Cate Devine

Production Assistant, French Language Service

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Seasoned journalist & writer (ex-senior staffer @heraldscotland @Sunday_Post, @ScottishField @scottishOperaPress @BBCWorldService + others) now freelance. Interviewer. Allotmenteer. French speaker w/some German.

  • Education

    • University of Strathclyde

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      Post-Grad Dip in Business Studies with Commercial French

    • University of Glasgow

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    • St Margaret’s, Paisley

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      Master of Arts (M.A.) French and German Language and Literature.

      As part of my degree I spent a year in Provence, France, teaching 18 and 19 years olds English at a Lycee Nationale. Learned the art of French cuisine.

  • Experience

    • BBC World Service, London

      Jan 1980 - Jan 1982
      Production Assistant, French Language Service

    • BPCC (British Printing and Communications Corporation), London

      Jan 1982 - Jan 1984
      Publishing Assistant at Robert Maxwell's publishing empire

    • Caledonian Publishers (later Scottish Media Group)

      Jan 1988 - Jan 1994
      Deputy Editor, Scottish Field Magazine

    • DC Thomson

      Jan 1994 - Jan 1996
      Women's Editor, The Sunday Post

      I was headhunted from Scottish Field to become launch editor (Glasgow) of the 12-page Family Matters features section of the paper

    • The Herald (heraldscotland.com), owned by NewsQuest

      Sept 1996 - Mar 2016
      Senior staff writer & columnist; Features Editor; launch editor, The Herald Saturday Magazine

    • Https://www.catedevinewriter.com/

      Apr 2016 - now

      • Freelance journalist specialising in food and food issues

        Apr 2016 - now

      • https://www.catedevinewriter.com/

        Apr 2016 - now

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • MA in French and German Lang & Lit; Post-Grad Dip in Business Studies with Commercial French

    • Full Member

      The National Union of Journalists
      Jan 1984

    • Full Member

      The Guild of Food Writers