Project Description
Print and Online Journalism
LINSEY WYNTON – WRITE HAND WOMAN
I am a trained journalist with a PgDip in Newspaper Journalism from City University with 60wpm typing, 100wpm shorthand. I’m thorough, accurate and I instantly recognise a good story.
I can write news articles, often at the drop of a hat, to tight deadlines as well as features involving sensitive interviews and travel articles. I have also written glossy PR leaflets. Newspapers I have contributed to include: the Sunday Telegraph; the Evening Standard; The Herald & The Sunday Herald (Scotland); the Times Educational Supplement; The Brighton Argus; the Hampstead & Highgate Express series.
Magazines I have written for include: Woman; the Travel Trade Gazette; Tamba (Twins and Multiple Births Association); Prima Baby; Nursing Standard (& Royal College of Nursing website); Loaded, Bizarre & Take a Break.
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
THE EVENING STANDARD
A case study I wrote to accompany an article about my local hospital being put into special measures. I wrote about my experience of having twin babies in the Special Care Baby Unit (SCBU) at the hospital. Whilst my babies were there I successfully campaigned to get air conditioning units installed at SCBU following a heatwave in which incubators had to be switched off as babies’ heart rates rose.
THE EVENING STANDARD
A news story about a community effort I coordinated. We painted three caravans and filled them with useful donations including food, cutlery, crockery, towels and bedding and sent them to vulnerable refugee families and lone refugee children in Calais. This was backed by MP Stella Creasy in memory of murdered MP Jo Cox.
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
A travel feature on a journey on the Trans-Siberian railway across Russia and into Mongolia. It describes the sameness of Siberia, the 17.5% Baltica beer and a foray into the wild grassy moonscape that is Mongolia, which involved sleeping in a ger tent with a nomadic family. It notes the contrast between the former communist capitals of opulent Moscow and ultra-modern Beijing.
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
A travel feature on a train journey on the luxury Deccan Odyssey, which is modelled on Rajasthan’s five-star Palace on Wheels. It tells of a journey through the extreme contrasts of wealth and poverty while taking in the sights of north-eastern India. These include one of India’s holiest rivers, a day trip to Goa and watching street children washing their hair with a hose used to clean the train.
HIGHBURY & ISLINGTON EXPRESS
A colourful two-page interview with the founder of The Big Issue, the irreverent John Bird, where he talks about his working-class Irish roots, his days as a journalist, the havoc alcohol causes and his disillusionment with politics.
BRIGHTON ARGUS
A fascinating interview with a former air steward whose plane was hijacked and brought down in the Jordanian desert. He describes having a gun put to his head and hijackers running around with live grenades and how the experience made him sympathetic to the cause of those who nearly killed him.
THE HERALD (SCOTLAND)
A news feature in which I interviewed mothers who had experienced Twin to Twin Transfusion, a life-threatening condition in which one identical twin with a shared placenta gets more blood than his or her sibling. The aim of the story was to raise awareness about the condition among the general public, parents-to-be and NHS staff.
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
WOMAN MAGAZINE
A two-page feature focusing on penpals focusing on two sets of friends who have stayed in touch for years – by writing to each other and more recently using Facebook and Skype.
TAMBA MAGAZINE
An article about raising my identical twin boys as individuals – never calling them “the twins”, putting them in separate classes at school and dressing them differently.
THE TRAVEL TRADE GAZETTE
A four-page feature on holidaying in the magical island of Iceland. It details swimming outdoors in the thermal lake that is the Blue Lagoon, whale and dolphin watching and visiting glaciers, volcanos and geysers.
FLAMINGO MAGAZINE (AIR NAMIBIA)
A feature following in the footsteps of adventurer Sam McConnell as he walks single-handedly across the barren Namib dessert, battling sand storms, snakes and hunger.
