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| TV experience |
News
I’ve always been strong on news stories,
most recently exposing the UK's licence
points lottery - the huge difference in local
police forces' enthusiasm for prosecutions - a
story I pitched to Auto Express that got
picked up by the wires and dailies. I also
revealed the serious faults behind the
Scrappage scheme, also for Auto Express. As
well as regular news-writing for AE, my news
stories have appeared in Autocar, Business
Car, Car's website and the Daily Mail.
Road tests
My new-car reviews have appeared in a
number of UK motoring outlets, including
4car, Top Gear, Autocar, Auto Express, Car
magazine's website and Business Car.
Consumer/used
I write used reports for Auto Express and for
three years had my own column/consumer
page in Top Gear. Before that I wrote the
magazine version of the BBC show Right Car,
Wrong Car for Top Gear and have gone
undercover twice for What Car?, haggling at
dealers and writing the subsequent
supplement. Both times I wrote up my
findings for the Telegraph Motoring section.
My buying guides have also appeared in
Used Car Buyer and Classic Cars for Sale
magazines.
Editing/sub-editing
I have extensive editing experience,
including a year-long editorship of EcoFleet
magazine and a longer stint at the helm of
What Double Cab? (a pickup magazine). I’ve
written, commissioned and edited a one-off
advertising magazine for Ford, a motorbike
supplement for the Evening Standard and the
programme for the latest Press Gazette press
awards. I used to be the chief sub at Autocar
magazine (the job James May was fired from)
and I sub-edit Top Gear’s Test Drive Directory
using the latest InDesign software.
Web content
I regularly wrote for Channel 4’s 4car
motoring website (including some uploading
and basic HTML coding). I also supplied
content and helped in the design of Dave’s
Car of the Year 2007 website and now
regularly write a blog for the site.
Photography
This is a hobby that regularly produces pics
good enough for publications such as
Wanderlust magazine, RiDE, 911 and Porsche
World, 4x4 and MPV Driver and Australian
Penthouse (about an Indian rickshaw rally –
steady). I’ve also twice sold vehicle shoots to
the manufacturer to use as publicity shots,
once for Dodge (the Ram) and once for
Aixam (the Mega City electric car).
Adventure/travel features
Wanderlust Magazine published over five
pages my story of the first rickshaw rally in
India. That and my motorbiking guide to the
New Zealand South Island for RiDE magazine
have been my biggest travel successes so
far, but my story about my participation in
the Plymouth-Dakar banger rally made it into
911 and Porsche World and Motorsport News),
while the rickshaw rally was also taken up by
the 4car website.
Green technology/environment
That was the main focus of EcoFleet
magazine, which I edited for a year. Sadly
just a couple of years before its time, that
one. Now I regularly write on green issues,
with clients including the Car magazine
website and Channel 4’s 4car website,
including a month-long daily eco-driving
advice feature back in Jan 07.
Copywriting
Ford, Fiat and Toyota are some of the clients
I’ve written for over the last six years or so.
The work has come via agencies, and the
campaigns have been both web and print-
based. A couple of examples I’ve been
pleased with: writing pithy yet informative and
accessible descriptions of the model range on
Toyota’s consumer website; and putting
together a one-off magazine for Ford’s
business clients.
I’ve always been strong on news stories,
most recently exposing the UK's licence
points lottery - the huge difference in local
police forces' enthusiasm for prosecutions - a
story I pitched to Auto Express that got
picked up by the wires and dailies. I also
revealed the serious faults behind the
Scrappage scheme, also for Auto Express. As
well as regular news-writing for AE, my news
stories have appeared in Autocar, Business
Car, Car's website and the Daily Mail.
Road tests
My new-car reviews have appeared in a
number of UK motoring outlets, including
4car, Top Gear, Autocar, Auto Express, Car
magazine's website and Business Car.
Consumer/used
I write used reports for Auto Express and for
three years had my own column/consumer
page in Top Gear. Before that I wrote the
magazine version of the BBC show Right Car,
Wrong Car for Top Gear and have gone
undercover twice for What Car?, haggling at
dealers and writing the subsequent
supplement. Both times I wrote up my
findings for the Telegraph Motoring section.
My buying guides have also appeared in
Used Car Buyer and Classic Cars for Sale
magazines.
Editing/sub-editing
I have extensive editing experience,
including a year-long editorship of EcoFleet
magazine and a longer stint at the helm of
What Double Cab? (a pickup magazine). I’ve
written, commissioned and edited a one-off
advertising magazine for Ford, a motorbike
supplement for the Evening Standard and the
programme for the latest Press Gazette press
awards. I used to be the chief sub at Autocar
magazine (the job James May was fired from)
and I sub-edit Top Gear’s Test Drive Directory
using the latest InDesign software.
Web content
I regularly wrote for Channel 4’s 4car
motoring website (including some uploading
and basic HTML coding). I also supplied
content and helped in the design of Dave’s
Car of the Year 2007 website and now
regularly write a blog for the site.
Photography
This is a hobby that regularly produces pics
good enough for publications such as
Wanderlust magazine, RiDE, 911 and Porsche
World, 4x4 and MPV Driver and Australian
Penthouse (about an Indian rickshaw rally –
steady). I’ve also twice sold vehicle shoots to
the manufacturer to use as publicity shots,
once for Dodge (the Ram) and once for
Aixam (the Mega City electric car).
Adventure/travel features
Wanderlust Magazine published over five
pages my story of the first rickshaw rally in
India. That and my motorbiking guide to the
New Zealand South Island for RiDE magazine
have been my biggest travel successes so
far, but my story about my participation in
the Plymouth-Dakar banger rally made it into
911 and Porsche World and Motorsport News),
while the rickshaw rally was also taken up by
the 4car website.
Green technology/environment
That was the main focus of EcoFleet
magazine, which I edited for a year. Sadly
just a couple of years before its time, that
one. Now I regularly write on green issues,
with clients including the Car magazine
website and Channel 4’s 4car website,
including a month-long daily eco-driving
advice feature back in Jan 07.
Copywriting
Ford, Fiat and Toyota are some of the clients
I’ve written for over the last six years or so.
The work has come via agencies, and the
campaigns have been both web and print-
based. A couple of examples I’ve been
pleased with: writing pithy yet informative and
accessible descriptions of the model range on
Toyota’s consumer website; and putting
together a one-off magazine for Ford’s
business clients.
Dave Car of the Year, 2007 and 2008. Chairman of the judges
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