Sue Cartledge

Current

• Managing Editor at CONTEXTualise Editorial (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Editor, Hospital&healthcare at Yaffa Publishing group
• Locum Editor at Sydney Magazine Publishers
• Managing Editor at KISSMEDIA

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Education

• Launceston College of Technical & Further Education
• Launceston Technical College
• Broadland House CEGGS

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Connections

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Industry

Media Production

Websites

• My Company
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Sue Cartledge’s Summary

Over 12 years experience writing and editing on health and science and commercial topics for industry groups, business clients and consumers.

Editor, Hospital&healthcare (now Hospital & Aged Care), Australasia's largest publication for the health and aged care industries for five years.

Contract Sub-editor at Key Media, Sydney business and financial publishers, for 18 months.

Contract sub-editor at The Irish Echo, Sydney community newspaper, for 18 months.

Regular contributor to Hospital&healthcare (http://www.yaffa.com.au/mags/hahmag.htm) and The Veterinarian (http://www.theveterinarian.com.au/) magazines, and health and science contributor to Suite101.com (http://www.suite101.com).

Occasional contributor to Australian Farm Journal, Climate Control News, Food Service News, Nature and Health, Rag Trader, Toy and Hobby Retailer

Sue Cartledge’s Specialties:

Editing and proofing documents and layouts for commercial and private clients

Interviewing researchers and scientists

Researching, writing and editing articles on:

* agriculture and veterinary science
* the arts, particularly as they intersect with health
* engineering
* the environment
* health - mainstream and complementary therapies
* science
* business profiles
* B2B or consumer newsletters
* personality profiles
* product evaluation

Sue Cartledge’s Experience

• Managing Editor

  CONTEXTualise Editorial (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Media Production industry)

  August 2005 — Present (4 years)

  Researching, writing and editing articles for print and online publications.
  
  Providing structural and copy editing for client's documents - whether one page flyers, multipage newsletters, or major papers and book chapters.
  
  Proof reading and correcting client's documents or layouts in Adobe InDesign, Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Word.

• Editor, Hospital&healthcare

  Yaffa Publishing group

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Media Production industry)

  February 2000 — November 2005 (5 years 10 months)

  Total responsibility for all editorial content on Australasia's largest publication for the health care and aged industry, including liaising with expert commentators, commissioning freelance contributors and providing analytic comment..
  
  Developed new features areas of technology and environmental responsibility, and extended coverage of gerontology topics, in particular depression and dementia.

• Locum Editor

  Sydney Magazine Publishers

  (Media Production industry)

  November 2004 — December 2004 (2 months)

  Interim editor of The Veterinarian monthly publication for veterinary surgeons and vet nurses. I continue to contribute to The Veterinarian.

• Managing Editor

  KISSMEDIA

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

  February 1993 — June 2000 (7 years 5 months)

  Small editorial services, copywriting agency and publisher.
  
  Provided copy writing and editorial services to real estate companies and property developers. Examples can be seen on http://www.contextualise.com/archive/
  
  Published anthologies of short stories and poetry for the Society of Women Writers (Tas), and private clients. Publications include:
  
  Beached (ISBN 0 646 25590 8)
  Chocolate Croissants: the darker side of pastry (ISBN 0 646 21487 X)
  Ferlinghetti's Pyjamas (0 646 1673 6)
  & (ISBN 0646 21486)
  @ (ISBN 09586 968 0 2)

Sue Cartledge’s Education

• Launceston College of Technical & Further Education

  Diploma , Sociology & Social Work , 1980 — 1983

• Launceston Technical College

  Certificate , Biology Laboratory Techniques , 1970 — 1972

• Broadland House CEGGS

  Matriculation 1960 — 1964

Additional Information

Sue Cartledge’s Websites:

• My Company
• My del.icio.us

Sue Cartledge’s Interests:

Science and technology, health, the environment, cooking, gardening, writing (short stories and novels), walking

Sue Cartledge’s Groups:

Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (http://www.allliance.org,au), Australian Society of Authors (http://www.asauthors.org/), Society of Editors, NSW (http://www.editorsnsw.com/),

Sue Cartledge’s Contact Settings

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