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FREDERICK JAMES HERZOG

7 Doctors Meadow, Ruyton X1 Towns Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY4 1LX

Experience
Online News Editor Redbrick May 2011 February 2013

Relevant Skills
Managing teams, social media, researching, company promotion, time management, interviewing (telephone & faceto-face), media law training, writing to a deadline, creativity, HTML 5 on Wordpress, live blogging, Adobe Photoshop & InDesign

Role: Making online content accessible and interactive, using InDesign to present data in print, running live blogs of major events & editing articles

PR Assistant Zen Communications 10.12.12 - 14.12.12

Employment
Senior House Coordinator
(Previously House Coordinator

02.07.12 - present
09.07.11 - 20.04.12)

Role: Writing up press releases for clients, ensuring the client is promoted well in local and national media & researching information about clients

Ellesmere College Enterprises, Ellesmere College

Co-Managing Editor of Sunday Edition Guild Television February 2012 - October 2012

Responsible for and leading a team of house coordinators, assisting in the handing over of the school to third parties, building up a relationship with clients who hire out the school, liaising with the domestic staff and operations team and writing press releases to promote the school & ensuring a high level of customer service

Role: Co-hosting a cross-campus weekly political television show, deciding content each week, organising, preparing and interviewing guests

20.06.11 - 01.07.12 Office Assistant and VIP Waiter Southview Equestrian Centre, Nantwich
Sending out tickets to an international show, using Microsoft Office especially Access, answering the telephone, taking shop stock checks, serving drinks to VIPs and working a bar

Photography Editor Redbrick March 2011 September 2012

Role: Liaising with sections to collate requests, running meetings, editing photos & advising sections on photos to use in print and online

Warehouse Operative GoGreen Reprocess, Bridgnorth

13.09.10 - 17.09.10

Working in a team of seven others to strip offices of furniture and either resell or break up the furniture for recycling

Reporter The Times (Home News Team) 17.09.12 21.09.12

Education
Current A2

Role: Shadowing reporters to Home Affairs Committee and Litvinyenko pre-inquest review, transcribing interviews, researching story and PR information

BA History 2As in History & English Literature 1B in Geography 7A*s, 3As

University of Birmingham Ellesmere College Ellesmere College

Broadcast Journalist BBC Midlands Today 03.04.12 05.04.12

GCSE

Role: Shadowing reporters to press conferences, on a live broadcast, editing a final package & pitching ideas to a team of reporters and editors

Other Skills and Achivements

Reporter Shropshire Star/ Shrewsbury Chronicle 04.07.11 15.07.11

Captain of School, Ellesmere College Bronze, Silver and Gold DofE ESB Examination in Speech Level 2 & 3 (distinction) Awarded High Sheriff of Shropshires Young Citizen Award Attended Woodard Schools Foundation in Leadership course Founding committee member of Birmingham University Tea Society (treasurer) Full UK driving licence

Role: Finding stories and developing them to print, turning press releases into articles, reporting on events/protests, voxpopping public for opinion

References available upon request