Yolanda Brooks

Current

• Writer & Editor (Self-employed)

Past

• Deputy Editor at Times Educational Supplement
• Editor at Hobsons Publishing

Education

• Bournemouth University
• City University

Recommended

2 people have recommended Yolanda

Connections

15 connections

Industry

Writing and Editing

Websites

• My Website

Yolanda Brooks’s Summary

Extensive experience of writing news and feature stories for consumer and contract titles on a varied range of subjects including business, education, science, medicine, natural history and lifestyle.

Corporate communications expertise includes the development of website content, newsletters, case studies and press releases.

Yolanda Brooks’s Specialties:

Proof reading, copy and substantive editing, interviewing, project management and commissioning.

Yolanda Brooks’s Experience

• Writer & Editor

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Publishing industry)

  July 2005 — Present (4 years 1 month)

  News and feature writing for magazines, newspapers and online publications. Corporate communication services include website content, press releases and newsletters.

• Deputy Editor

  Times Educational Supplement

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)

  July 2000 — June 2005 (5 years)

  Deputy Editor of a full colour magazine published every week in the Times Educational Supplement which is sold nationwide in the UK.

• Editor

  Hobsons Publishing

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

  September 1997 — July 2000 (2 years 11 months)

  Editor at international educational publishing company producing magazines, directories and casebooks.

Yolanda Brooks’s Education

• Bournemouth University

  Communication & Media

• City University

  Post graduate diploma in newspaper journalism

Additional Information

Yolanda Brooks’s Websites:

• My Website

Yolanda Brooks’s Contact Settings

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