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Chris Gaynor

Gable Cottage,
6, Birds Hill Road,
Oxshott,
Surrey KT22 0NJ

Tel: O1372 844 612
Mob: 0788 433 5865
E-mail: chrisgaynor603@msn.com

PERSONAL STATEMENT:

I am a creative, organised team player, who thrives on new challenges. I enjoy writing on any given subject, and love laying out pages using the design package Quark XPress. I am prepared to relocate (within reason) – and am looking for journalism work on newspapers, magazines, press agencies/websites.

EDUCATION AND TRAINING:

March 1st – April 1st – (Foreign Work experience in Brasov, Romania, The Brasov Visitor)

  • Searching and Writing News and Feature/Reviews and Interviews for the monthly political and cultural tourist magazine
  • ‘Live’ match report on FC Brasov
  • Attending Romanian press conference, about the role of Brasov’s women in history
  • Feature on the myth and realities of Dracula (Bran Castle)
  • Helping with design and layout using QUARK
  • Writing a Travel Blog for the website The-Latest in addition to working on the magazine
  • Read one of the articles here: http://www.brasov-visitor.ro/sectiune.php?limba=2&id_revista=8&id_sectiune=18
  • And read this link on
    http://www.beajournalist.talktalk.net/chrisgaynor.html

    • Jan – May 2008

  • Published work on www.theonlines.co.uk
  • Pitman Training Teeline shorthand training course: 70words/min

    • Summer/ Winter 2007

  • Freelance activity- I broke a story on The-Latest.com of UFO video footage in Farnborough, which I then pitched to the Farnborough News.
  • Visit to Croydon’s Employment Tribunal (four day hearing) reporting on an unfair dismissal case involving a multi-millionaire.
  • Writing regular news, features and reviews for www.the-latest.com in which I have had several front page scoops.
  • Visit http://www.webspawner.com/users/rex66/index.html to see my growing online portfolio of work.

    • October 2005/ August 06 – Post graduate diploma in magazine journalism and an NCTJ newspaper course at noSWeat College of Journalism, London.

  • Writing News, features, (interviews), reviews for the noSWeat magazine LONDON UPDATE, plus portfolio of published and unpublished work on both courses.
  • Local government (passed) Central government (passed)
  • Media Law Part 1 (passed) Part 2 (passed)
  • Shorthand
  • Court visits including: Southwark Crown Court, Highbury Magistrates Court and OLD BAILEY.
  • Training in sub editing and page layout using QUARK XPRESS
  • Published news and feature stories in:
  • Esher News and Mail and Aldershot News and Mail
  • The-Latest.com, and BBC website Lincolnshire

    Relevant Work Experience on Aldershot News and Mail – July 2006 (1 week)

    Writing news, press releases and attending Aldershot magistrates court on work experience

    Sheengate magazines, - Hampton – November 2005 – (1 week)

    Writing press releases and the What’s on pages

    September 2003/May 05 – Graduate diploma in laws (CPE) Holborn College – 2:2

  • Constit law/EU law – contract law – land law – tort law –criminal law and equity and trusts law – (Family law 5000 word project on Father’s rights)

    • March 2004 – Pitman training diploma in Microsoft packages:

  • Word Advanced, Excel Intermediate, Outlook Intermediate, Powerpoint Advanced, Access Intermediate

    • June 2003 – University of Portsmouth – BA 1:3 in English and Creative Studies

  • Creating and performing a selection of plays to a student audience and wider audience, including directing a group of disabled students to put on a play at The Theatre Royal, Portsmouth.

    • EMPLOYMENT:

    July– October 2005 (3 months) – Lyons Davidson Solicitors, New Malden
    Meruit Costs Department: role as Graduate Trainee Law Costs Draftsman

  • Drafting bills of costs and inputting data on case management system FILESTREAM

    • HOBBIES AND INTERESTS:

  • Music (jazz, rock, pop), films, Travel, food and drink, sports and UK politics and law.

    • REFERENCES AVAILABLE ON REQUEST

  • Marc Wadsworth (Editor of The-Latest.Com) editor@the-latest.com
  • Andy Moorhouse – (Sportsbeat News editor) amoorhouse@sportsbeat.co.uk)
  • Steve Ward (noSWeat course director) steve@nosweatjt.co.uk
  • Catalin Badea-Gheracostea (Brasov Visitor editor) editorial@brasov-visitor.ro



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