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writer and copy editor with extensive BBC and United Nations experience
Charles Bartlett
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Reading, United Kingdom
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I'm offering
Flexible and responsive, I write stories, copyedit anything from scientific and technical webpages to health/medical material, and am particularly adept at summarizing, editing or rewriting political, economic, humanitarian and environmental texts. For the last 4.5 years I've been working as a writer for the United Nations Environment Programme. I've also worked for two other UN agencies and BBC Monitoring. Experienced translator of Serbian/Croatian and French into English.
Markets
United Kingdom
Industries
Language
German
Fluently
English
Fluently
French
Fluently
Ready for
Ongoing relation / part-time
Available
My experience
2016 - ?
job
Writer/content provider/editor
UNEP's Communications Division.
Writer focusing on ecosystems, biodiversity and climate change. Working with colleagues in different teams, I produce stories, articles, blogs, interviews and other content for the UNEP website (www.unep.org). I edit copy from partner organizations and turn it into engaging content. I select and caption images, videos, etc. Thorough knowledge of the UN Editorial Manual.
Website, Content, Blogs, It
2015 - 2015
job
P3 UNHCR Reporting Officer, Jamjang
Unity State.
South Sudan. Writing reports on the refugee and IDP situation in Pariang County
Writing
2015 - 2015
job
P4 UNHCR Senior External Affairs Officer
unknown.
Drafting reports relating to donors, partners, refugees and IDPs in South Sudan
2007 - 2014
job
editor with IRIN humanitarian news agency
P3 UN Office.
Critically assessing raw stringer and/or other copy; researching and making suggestions for improvements; proofreading, rejigging or rewriting as necessary. Ensuring headlines were attractive, leads cogent and appropriate formats used for a range of textual and multimedia outputs. Supporting editorial operations and online presentation across the operation, including updating IRIN's website; acting as a focal point for style issues. Translating/reworking stringer copy in French.
Operations, Proofreading, Website, Online
1985 - 2007
job
Serbo-Croat translator
BBC Monitoring.
(1985-95); duty editor covering media and politics in Eastern Europe; duty editor covering Middle East; chief sub-editor/trainer in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (2003-04); head of BBC Monitoring's East Africa Unit in Nairobi, in charge of about 30 editorial staff (1999-2003)
Monitoring
1978 - 1985
freelance
freelance translator/English teacher in Sarajevo
British Council scholarship in Sarajevo.
several summers working as a tour guide in five Balkan countries; secretary of the British-Yugoslav Society in London; English teacher in Istanbul
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My education
1978
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1979
University of Bradford
Masters, N/a
Masters, N/a
1973
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1977
University of Bradford
Bachelors, European Studies
Bachelors, European Studies
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