Editorial

I have over two decades of daily experience in professional writing and editing, often working internationally with non-native English speakers, aiming to achieve the highest quality of style, meaning and substance for the desired market and target audience.

In addition to having edited the former Balkanalysis.com website and all of my own personal writings, I have also provided specialist freelance editorial services to various clients, most notably two Spanish firms that previously cornered the market for nation-branding and public relations in the so-called ‘advertorial’ special advertising supplements found in various leading international newspapers.

Between 2015-2018, I undertook numerous complex editorial projects under tight deadlines for these firms – by name, The Business Report and The Report Company. The business models and practices of both firms were similar, and so the editorial work for both can be described collectively.

Thus, in this freelance editorial role, I collated raw data from a variety of prepared sources, such as the interview transcripts made by the companies’ on-ground ‘reporters’ with officials of the client governments and leaders of the business communities there. The objective was to ensure that the interview texts were correct for publication, and to find particularly compelling quotes that highlighted the overall editorial objectives of the pieces in question, which were multiple for each advertorial section.

In this role, I was also responsible for collating provided data (such as graphs and statistics) into tables and boxes, while also doing a fair amount of original research to supplement the writing of the main texts themselves that really served to drive home the core messaging desired by the client countries. Thus, this role was not simply a complex editing task, but also an original writing project that required discernment and awareness of larger world current events and the specific contexts in which the client countries were to be perceived

Some of the countries and jurisdictions I covered in this freelance Editorial role included: Uganda; Ireland; Gibraltar; Maldives and Malta. These special advertising features appeared in major international newspapers, such as the International Herald Tribune, New York Times, The Guardian, and more.

I has worked in the areas of editorial and proofreading, aside from corporate communications and website maintenance to proofing academic papers and monographs at the final stage of their editorial process to help their various authors, often adding a touch of enhanced professionalism and clarity- a service as invaluable as it is invisible to the reader.