Asavin Wattanajantra

Current

Freelance Journalist at Self Employed

Past

Staff Writer at Dennis Publishing
Bookseller at Waterstones
Bookseller at Ottakar's plc

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Education

University of Westminster
Queen Mary, U. of London

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Industry

Writing and Editing

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Asavin Wattanajantra’s Summary

A multi-skilled journalist experienced in writing feature articles, reviews, profiles, essays, editorial comment, news reports, research reports and creative print copy.

Well versed in copyediting, transcription/ editing of interviews and proofreading. I have a strong technical command of the English language and am a competent researcher, interviewer and reporter.

Well versed in internet and desktop publishing such as Indesign and technically adept at Apple Mac and Microsoft systems.

Asavin Wattanajantra’s Specialties:

adobe photoshop, broadcast, cms, com, content management, dreamweaver, editing, feature writing, features, html, indesign, internet software, journalism, layout design, legal, macromedia, marketing, networking, press releases, publicity, quality, quark xpress, reports, research, reuters, stories, transcription, video, web site production, writing,

Asavin Wattanajantra’s Experience

Freelance Journalist

Self Employed

(Writing and Editing industry)

December 2009 — Present (2 months)
Staff Writer

Dennis Publishing

(Privately Held; Publishing industry)

January 2008 — December 2009 (2 years )

Staff Writer for IT PRO Magazine, the only purely IT business news and features website at Dennis Publishing. I was responsible for the Security, networking, retail and financial services beats.

For security especially, I had to constantly write good quality content and keep up to date with the latest trends. Formed working relationships with security vendors and made my name known out there.

Wrote four or five news stories every day which ranged from short pieces picked up from the national press to longer unique analysis pieces which involve me talking to experts in the field or the relevant IT vendors.

Learned the required CMS and HTML skills to post up stories and source my own pictures. I had some editing responsibilities when short staffed or editing Reuters stories to use on the website.

I know how to write successfully on the web thanks to my experience on the job and various training courses, as well as the constant writing of copy on a busy news desk.

Constantly analysed and measure news web traffic thanks to my expertise with Hitbox and Google Analytics. Learned about how SEO is a very important part of traffic gathering in internet publishing.

Experience with talking to high-level IT bosses, easy in making contacts and can source news from a range of sources, including RSS and Twitter.

Travelled to different parts of the world to attend conferences and events held by companies and organisations such such as IBM, Cisco, F-Secure and ENISA. Included US, Greece, Germany, Finland, Spain and South Africa.
Bookseller

Waterstones

(Public Company; Retail industry)

July 2006 — August 2006 (2 months)
Bookseller

Ottakar's plc

(Public Company; Retail industry)

October 2004 — July 2006 (1 year 10 months)

Asavin Wattanajantra’s Education

University of Westminster

Masters , Journalism , 2006 — 2007

Accredited by the Periodicals Training Council (PTC), this included the award of a Postgraduate Diploma in Periodical (Print) Journalism. The course included the production of an award winning website closely modelled on the BBC’s called Westminster News Online. I was made the editor of the site. I was responsible for the overall running of WNOL and related online areas such as video, where we worked closely with broadcast journalists. For the final award of the diploma we created a magazine called ‘Six Degrees’ which were entered into the PTC student publishing awards, and which I was also made editor. We were responsible for the whole process, from the creation of editorial content to its layout. The magazine was based around social networking and user generated content. During the course I learned vital journalism skills for the workplace. These included the news agenda, law, online journalism, news, feature writing and specialist journalism (science and technology).
Queen Mary, U. of London

BA 2:1 , English Literature , 2001 — 2004