Project Description
Press and PR Work
LINSEY WYNTON – WRITE HAND WOMAN
With two decades of experience in national print and television media, I provide press and publicity for people including entrepreneurs, creatives and community bastions in local, national and specialist media.
I have experience working in a busy press office dealing with media enquiries from local, London and national print, online and broadcast media and preparing press releases, articles and interviews for them.
I have also written glossy promotional brochures and taken well-composed photographs for print and social media. Stories I have promoted have made headlines on BBC and ITV London news, Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, the Evening Standard, The Voice, the Waltham Forest Echo, the Waltham Forest Guardian and the E List magazine.
WALTHAM FOREST COUNCIL
Promotional Brochure
This brochure was written for the launch of a magnificent new leisure centre and included interviews with Olympians Reece Prescod (a 100m sprinter who’s raced Usain Bolt) and Lutalo Muhammed (a Taekwondo silver medalist) as well as older people who have transformed their lives after getting into exercise.
BBC NEWS & EVENING STANDARD
Extended maternity and paternity pay for parents of premature babies
Two of many stories covering Waltham Forest Council becoming the first employer to extend maternity and paternity pay to parents of premature babies for the time their little one spends in hospital. Coverage came from the Evening Standard, BBC London News (TV and online), ITV London news, Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, HR Review and Personnel Today.
THE VOICE
Comedian who battled cancer and lost family in a hurricane
An inspirational story written word for word from a press release I sent to The Voice. This story on Glenda Jaxson, a dinner lady turned comedian, also appeared in local press. Glenda has battled thyroid cancer and she lost family members in the hurricane that struck her native Dominica.
THE CRICKETER
Iconic cricket pavilion to transform into a mini-Borough Market
A story I promoted about Heritage Lottery funding for Leyton cricket pavilion to be transformed into a mini-Borough market got great publicity including in the Cricketer magazine, Waltham Forest Guardian and What’s on and Where to Go. I secured quotes from cricket legend Graham Gooch and an interview with former England international John Lever.
WALTHAM FOREST ECHO
Bus Driver turns Entrepreneur
I publicised the story of Gilchrist Thomas in local and trade press. Gil is a London bus driver with a triumph over tragedy tale – he became an orphan at the age of seven and ended up as a DJ with drug and alcohol problems. But when he met his wife, he turned to Christianity and turned his life around. This publicity has helped boost the range of outlets selling Gil’s My Sauce products.
WALTHAM FOREST GUARDIAN
Accolade for young woman who grew up in care
A story based on a press release I wrote about a remarkable young woman who attained a first class university degree despite growing up in foster care.
