Sarah Booker

Current

• Digital and social media editor at Worthing Herald series
• Digital and social media editor at Chichester Observer series
• Digital and social media editor at Johnston Press

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Past

• Sub editor at Johnston Press Plc
• Sub editor at Worthing Herald series
• Sub editor and reporter at Trinity Mirror Southern

• Reporter at Buckinghamshire Advertiser

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Education

• Brighton College of Technology
• Bournemouth University

Connections

51 connections

Industry

Newspapers

Websites

• My Company
• Twitter
• My Blog

Sarah Booker’s Summary

I am an NCE qualified journalist working as digital content and social media editor for the Worthing Herald series and Chichester Observer series.

I have worked in the newspaper industry since 1992, and first became interested in the internet in 1995. After qualifying as a journalist I specialised in local government and human interest stories, before moving into entertainments and sub editing.

Longing to move back to hard news, I became a sub editor at the Worthing Herald, where my knowledge of internet social networking was recognised and I was took on the websites.
Herald's web presence has grown dramatically once I took on the task.

I am a confident video editor using Avid Express Pro.

Since 1996 I have used various forms of web communication tools.
Today I embrace social media flavours of the month such as YouTube, Facebook, Digg, Reddit and Twitter, utilising these services as new gathering and delivery devices.

My confidence in the world of web journalism has seen me recognised as one of Johnston Press's digital champions.

In November 2009, I started an additional role as a guest lecturer at Brighton & Hove City College, hosting online journalism workshops for NCTJ newspaper and magazine journalists.

My goals are, to enhance and develop my knowledge of SEO; improved competence with HTML, and to discover and utilise new ways for newspapers to reach a wider audience online.

Sarah Booker’s Specialties:

Writing, interviews, sub editing, utilising the internet and social networking and media services.

Sarah Booker’s Experience

• Digital and social media editor

  Worthing Herald series

  (Public Company; Newspapers industry)

  June 2009 — Present (7 months)

• Digital and social media editor

  Chichester Observer series

  (Newspapers industry)

  June 2009 — Present (7 months)

• Digital and social media editor

  Johnston Press

  (Public Company; jpr; Newspapers industry)

  June 2009 — Present (7 months)

• Sub editor

  Johnston Press Plc

  (Newspapers industry)

  October 2006 — June 2009 (2 years 9 months)

• Sub editor

  Worthing Herald series

  (Newspapers industry)

  October 2006 — June 2009 (2 years 9 months)

  Sub editing website, optimising for search engines, seeking out web potential, utilising social networking services, sub editing the Lancing Herald and other editions when required.

• Sub editor and reporter

  Trinity Mirror Southern

  (Public Company; Newspapers industry)

  June 2000 — October 2006 (6 years 5 months)

  Reporter at Buckinghamshire Advertiser series and sub editor/features writer for Trinity Mirror Southern (15 titles)

• Reporter

  Buckinghamshire Advertiser

  (Newspapers industry)

  2000 — 2005 (5 years )

Sarah Booker’s Education

• Brighton College of Technology

  Pg Dip , NCTJ Journalism , 1999 — 2000

• Bournemouth University

  BA , Communication , 1996 — 1999

  Activities and Societies:

  The Nerve newsaper/magazine.

Additional Information

Sarah Booker’s Websites:

• My Company
• Twitter
• My Blog

Sarah Booker’s Interests:

SEO, social networking, web gadgets, roller coasters, moustaches, Japanese food and culture, vegetarian cookery.

Sarah Booker’s Groups:

Roller Coaster Club of Great Britain, Handlebar Club

•    The National Union of Journalists
•    Brighton New Media
•    Brighton Girl Geeks
•    Brighton
•    ThoseinMedia
•    Bournemouth University Alumni
•    New Media, Social Media, and Social Networking Participants
•    Newspaper SEO group
•    Social Media Today
•    BarCamp Brighton
•    Tweeple
•    Newspaper Professionals Network
•    Future Social Media
•    Journalist and Journalism
•    Media Helping Media
•    Social Media, Social TV, Monitoring, Mobile Social Networks, Marketing, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, PR
•    We Are Social

Sarah Booker’s Honors:

Sussex Newspapers: Best use of photographs on the web 2007

Sarah Booker’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• new ventures
• expertise requests
• reference requests
• getting back in touch