Chris Wheal's CV | Kate Wheal's CV
Full name:
Christopher Graham Wheal
Mobile telephone: 07831-268261
Email
Date of birth: 28 December 1965
Marital status: Married (March 1993), son
(July 1995), daughter (Feb 1998)
Nationality: British
Employment
history:
February 1999 - present
Managing Director, Wheal Associates Ltd. Supplying features and news, editing, feature editing, news editing, reporting. Clients include major business and consumer magazines plus national newspapers. Includes being editor of Insurance Times, Property People and Service Management, plus editor for supplements in The Guardian. Established website Creative News. Currently writing early morning web news for Insurance Times. Marketing copywriter. Public relations adviser. Media trainer to multinational insurance company. Journalism trainer. Magazine layout sub-editor. Twice British Insurance Broker’s Association (Biba) consumer journalist of the year (once broadsheet, once tabloid), highly commended trade press feature writer or the year 2007 and currently Biba business journalist of the year 2008.
February 1996 - January 1999
Partner, Wheal Associates. Business as above.
October 1995 - January 1996
Freelance Journalist (sole trader). Business as above.
August 1993 - September 1995
Features Editor, Public Finance, The Chartered Institute of Public Finance
and Accountancy, 3 Robert Street, London WC2N 6BH.
Oversaw
the training of the junior reporter through two National Vocational Qualifications.
He was highly commended in the Periodical Training Council's new journalist
of the year awards and is now editor of Accountancy Age.
November 1989 - August 1993
Assistant Editor, The Engineer, Morgan-Grampian, 30 Calderwood Street,
London SE18 6QH. Covered the chemical industry, industrial relations,
employment and health and safety. Morgan-Grampian's weekly feature writer
of the year in 1992.
December 1987 - November 1989
Reporter, then Employment Reporter, Electronics Weekly, Reed Business
Publishing, Quadrant House, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5AS.
Education:
BA(Hons) Modern European Studies, 1987, Ealing College of Higher Education,
London. Including: history, geography, politics, economics and Spanish.
Two A levels, Havant 6th Form College, Hampshire; Five O Levels, Crookhorn
Comprehensive, Hampshire.
Other
activities:
PTA member, Myatt Garden Primary School, Lewisham; Chair – Parents’ Forum, Deptford Green School, Lewisham; Fellow – The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA); Chair – National Union of Journalists (NUJ)’s Professional Training Committee; Chair of trustees – NUJ Extra; Vice-president – Charlton Park RFC.
Interests:
Rugby (recently retired player and referee), supporting children’s sporting activities, adventure motorcycling, walking and cycling, vegetarian cooking, good food, beer and wine.
Links
www.chriswheal.com
www.chriswheal.co.uk
www.the-zebra.co.uk
www.lady-godiva.info
Full name: Kate Wheal
Mobile telephone: 07956-276366
Email
Date of birth: 12 December 1965
Marital status: Married (March 1993), son
(July 1995), daughter (Feb 1998)
Nationality: British
Employment
history:
February 1999 - present
Director, Wheal Associates Ltd.
Sub-editing and production editing a range of business magazines and supplements using Apple Macs and Quark XPress. Clients include major magazine companies, such as EMAP, Reed, VNU, IPC. Titles worked on include Building, Retail Week, Property Week, Caterer & Hotelkeeper, Square Meal, Screen International.
August 2007 – December 2008
Special Projects Editor, Building
Co-ordinating the contract publishing operation of Building magazine, which involved agreeing supplement ideas with clients, commissioning writers and designers, overseeing the production process and setting budgets. Clients worked with include Balfour Beatty, Mace, Land Securities and Corus.
February 1996 -January 1999
Partner, Wheal Associates. As Wheal Associates Ltd above.
January 1994 - January 1996
Freelance Sub-editor (sole trader).
November 1991 - January 1994
Production Editor, PC User, EMAP Business Publishing, 33-39 Bowling Green
Lane, London EC1R 0DA. Reorganised the schedules for the 100-page fortnightly
A4 magazine to reduce the amount of overtime worked and cut costs at the
printers. Recruited and managed new staff and co-ordinated all dealings
with the printers and repro house. Saw through the magazine's redesign
and was involved in subbing and layout. Wrote the magazine's new style
guide.
November 1989 - November 1991
Sub-editor, then Deputy Chief Sub-editor, Computer Weekly, Reed Business
Publishing, The Quadrant, Sutton, Surrey SM2 5AS. Was involved in the
hand-over from a PC-based publishing system (Pagewrite) to the Apple Mac-based
Quark XPress system. Acted as chief sub-editor in his absence for this
market-leading tabloid newspaper.
January 1989 - November 1989
Graduate Trainee, Reed Business Publishing, Quadrant House, The Quadrant,
Sutton, Surrey, SM2 5AS.
Education:
BA(Hons) English and Related Literature, 1988, University of York, Heslington,
York.
Three A levels, Millfield School, Street, Somerset.
Eleven O Levels, Cransley School for Girls, Belmont Hall, Great Budworth,
Cheshire.
Interests:
Music, reading, keeping fit, good food and wine.
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