About me
This profile was created because Alex Reeves has been referenced on AdForum.
Skills
- Feature Articles
- Editorial
- Journalism
- News Writing
- Social Media
- Film
- Advertising
- Copywriting
- Radio
- Editing
- Copy Editing
- Photoshop
- InDesign
- New Media
- Publications
- Creative Writing
- Cubase
- Social Networking
- Blogging
- Digital Media
- SEO
- Proofreading
- Interviews
- Feature Writing
- Review Writing
- Interviewing
- Writing For The Web
- Column Writing
- Sub-Editing
- Adobe Audition
- Opinion Writing
- Research
- Rock
- Punk
Talent you might be interested in
Richard Kirshenbaum
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
NSG/SWAT
Tamara Ingram
Former Chairman
Wunderman Thompson
Bruno-Georges David
Président
Communication Sans Frontières
Joe Sciarrotta
USA CCO
Ogilvy & Mather, Chicago
Mark Lund
President McCann Worldgroup UK and Europe
McCann Worldgroup UK
Positions
Editor
The Beak Street Bugle
April 2016 - Present (8 years 9 months)
Freelance Journalist
Alex Reeves
September 2010 - Present (14 years 4 months)
Published in: Radio Times, ShortList, Rock Sound, Don't Panic, The Tramlines Times, Substance.tv, The 1st Five, RawReviews, The Sanctuary, The Bracknell and Ascot Times
Reporter
The Beak Street Bugle
June 2012 - April 2016 (3 years 10 months)
Star Wars Consultant
LEGOLAND Windsor
March 2012 - June 2012 (3 months)
I worked in the Star Wars shop while looking for a journalism job. It mostly involved talking to 8-year-olds about their favorite jedi. It was awesome.
Wasp Exterminator
SDK Environmental
July 2010 - August 2010 (1 month)
One summer while I was a student this company decided to trust me with a van full of nerve agent chemicals and set me loose on the wasps of the south of England. I loved the surprise on people's faces when they saw a skinny emo kid roll up with Radio 4 blasting out of his van.
Education
MA, Magazine Journalism
2010 - 2011 (1 year)
Additional qualifications attained:
NCTJ Media Law - Court Reporting
NCTJ Media Law - General Reporting
NCTJ News Writing
My dissertation project was to create a magazine from concept through to market research, business planning, flatplanning, researching writing and designing. In a group of three we produced an 88-page culture magazine called Reckoner, which focused on the best music, film, current affairs and arts from just to the left of the mainstream.
BA, English Literature
2007 - 2011 (4 years)
My dissertation was titled: "‘Delirium of History’: The Subversion of Totalising Discourses in Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water" It received a first-class honours grade.
