Rob Mansfield

Current

• Senior Content Manager on www.goodtoknow.co.uk at IPC Media

Past

• Senior Editor, Youth at AOL UK
• Launch Editor, Eleven at AOL UK
• Freelance Writer/Editor (Self-employed)

• Editor at Emap
• Chief Sub Editor at Two-Can Publishing
• Editor at The Publishing Team
• Editor at BEAP - now Puzzler Media
• Conference/Editorial Assistant at Horizon House Publications

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Education

• The University of Sheffield
• Whitgift

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Connections

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Industry

Online Media

Rob Mansfield’s Summary

I am an experienced digital and print journalist in a variety of subject areas, and can turn my hand to writing and editing about pretty much any topic.

I've done the whole editing and commissioning content, I've managed budgets and small teams, am commercially aware and can even go on TV or radio to talk up projects successfully (no, I'm not posting my showreel)

I'm also very passionate about getting people to use the internet properly and get the most out of their experience, whoever they are.

I like to think I know what makes a website compelling and clickable and also have a good basic technical knowledge of CMS and site infrastructures.

Rob Mansfield’s Specialties:

Editing, commissioning and writing for print and online
Youth, entertainment and women's market
Development of strategic editorial and business plans
HTML, Photoshop, knowledge of a wide range of CMS
Excellent French and German; good Russian, Swedish and Italian
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Rob Mansfield’s Experience

• Senior Content Manager on www.goodtoknow.co.uk

  IPC Media

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; TWX; Publishing industry)

  August 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Overseeing content management and future development of mass-market women's website http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk
  - Currently specialising in health, family, sex & relationship areas, plus expansion of user-generated content and video

• Senior Editor, Youth

  AOL UK

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

  November 2004 — August 2007 (2 years 10 months)

  Operational lead for AOL's Youth offering and manager of the programming team, which kind of means I'm "down with the kids". Responsible for strategic and programming plans, product development and integration as well as delivery against performance and revenue targets and making the internet fun!

• Launch Editor, Eleven

  AOL UK

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)

  August 2006 — February 2007 (7 months)

  - Launch editor for Eleven, the women's coffee-break area on AOL UK (http://eleven.aol.co.uk), containing a fun mix of celeb gossip, games, fashion and funny videos
  - I was the programming lead and main partner liaison, helping to build an instant success with a large, engaged audience (more than 500K unique visitors and 3m page views in the first six months)

• Freelance Writer/Editor

  Self-employed

  (Self-Employed; Writing and Editing industry)

  March 2003 — April 2005 (2 years 2 months)

  - Provided freelance cover at Commissioning and Features Editor level on magazines, such as Radio Times, New Woman, 3am magazine, new!, Mizz, Wanadoo's icircle.co.uk
  - Wrote articles for a variety of magazines: Glamour, Marie Claire, Company, Zoo, bliss, 19, Sainsbury's and many more
  - Was part of the small award-winning team behind the BBC's Songs Of Praise magazine

• Editor

  Emap

  (Public Company; Publishing industry)

  January 1999 — March 2003 (4 years 3 months)

  Features Editor - more! magazine (2001-2003)
  - Managed a team of three writers
  - Commissioned and edited the features content for the fortnightly title
  
  Chief Sub Editor/writer - LOOKS magazine (1999-2001)
  - Edited the entire monthly magazine
  - Enabled the smooth-running of the magazine's entire production, from raw copy, through to pre-printing stage
  - Wrote regular style and celebrity-based features

• Chief Sub Editor

  Two-Can Publishing

  (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

  October 1997 — December 1998 (1 year 3 months)

  I was the glue that held together the weekly Young Telegraph newspaper and fortnightly magazine Disney's Big Time.
  This involved, among other things, editing and writing, and interviewing some of the top pop acts of the day, including 5ive, 911 and B*witched

• Editor

  The Publishing Team

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

  July 1996 — October 1997 (1 year 4 months)

  Responsibilities included editing a variety of customer magazines, for companies such as Sky, House Of Fraser, Alliance and Leicester and Flightbookers. I wrote, commissioned and edited copy, liaised with clients and pitched for new business

• Editor

  BEAP - now Puzzler Media

  (Publishing industry)

  March 1995 — July 1996 (1 year 5 months)

  Editor of a variety of puzzle magazines, including Logic Problems and Wordsearch

• Conference/Editorial Assistant

  Horizon House Publications

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

  July 1994 — March 1995 (9 months)

  Temporary contract, working on Telecommunications magazine and organising Telecom 94, an international telecoms conference in Turin, Italy