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Sarah Morgan

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I am an experienced sub-editor and journalist with solid experience in re-working technical or jargon-laden content into accessible print and online copy. I have recently worked for The Independent.

My first joint book on mental health recovery was published in 2011.

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Writing and interviewing are the parts of my role I enjoy most, as I love to weave stories with language and build a picture of a person or an industry through in depth interviews. I also enjoy editing, but it isn't as creative so I like to break it up with other tasks.

A desire to follow personal passions as a freelancer. It is great to be able to build your own stories based on your interests rather than always working to an employers agenda.

I'm diligent, creative and work well in teams. This means I can do the ground work to get something done, but I will also do my best to draw out something new and interesting. I love working collaboratively and for me this means having my own ideas to bring to a team of people, as well as listening to their ideas and goals.

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Sub-editing is about refining language. It is not simply a case of spotting mistakes, but also picking up on lack of clarity in expression and bad flow. In short, it is a sub-editor's job to make sure that life is easy for the reader. They take compl

Painting pictures with words in order to portray a scene, an industry or a person.

Minute taking is about recording events for operational purposes. Good minutes present the main points discussed in a meeting and the decisions taken for future action. They are not verbatim reports on the whole, instead they are a tool for those at or interested in the meeting to remind them what was discussed and what actions are to arise as a result of that discussion. They are also a record of who attended the meeting and who has been tasked to take action.

Journalism is about documenting the world that we live in. It is a flexible discipline and it involves recording or commenting in some way on the world as it currently appears to us. That can mean making observations on trends in modern culture or reporting on unfolding events. The key to journalism is that it is relevant to the current state of the world, at it's most exciting it is recording history, looking at what makes this specific moment in time unique.

Doing anything and everything to make an office run smoothly.