About Chris Newton
I worked as a journalist on regional
newspapers
and overseas radio before joining a major national PR
consultancy as an account executive, later becoming a director.
Since establishing Chris Newton Communications 20
years ago, I
have provided freelance PR consultancy and copywriting
services to a very wide range of businesses and
organisations in the south and west of England and
further afield.
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Background
in news journalism, including regional daily newspapers
and radio.
· Agency
career with Harrison Cowley Public Relations,
becoming account director, then main board director.
· Wide
experience in the public sector, including PR
services to several NHS Trusts, health authorities and
city/county councils.
· Consultancy
experience includes strategic planning,
business-to-business and consumer media relations,
corporate PR, media interview and communication training
and employee relations.
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"Chris has worked for the National Trust in Wessex for
the past 12 years. He produces high-quality, well-researched and well-written staff newsletters. He
writes features on our work and sells them
into our key magazines. He manages print and design work and
has even acted as a temporary communications
officer, leading a major press event. His writing is superb and he is a thorough researcher; this, together with his likeable and unflappable approach, makes him our first port of call when we use contractors."
- Celia Mead, Marketing Manager,
National Trust Wessex Region
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"Chris's professional approach
has made working with him a pleasure.
We have also appreciated the successful outcomes
his well-crafted contributions have
generated for us." - Wendy Clifford,
Tripod IT, Stroud
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Copywriting
experience in corporate literature, direct marketing,
technical and product literature, press advertising,
presentations, speeches, scripts, displays and the
Internet.
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Newsletter
specialist who has written and edited titles for many
public and private-sector organisations including The
National Trust, English Heritage, John Harvey & Sons
and several charities and health authorities.
Winner of two national first prizes awarded
by
the British Association of Industrial Editors.
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Accredited
in 1998 as a consultant by the Business Link/Training
and Enterprise Council and registered with the South
West Register.
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Keen
linguist, with good French, plus some Italian and
German.
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Published
author. My first book,
Hugh Falkus - A Life On The Edge, a biography of the
pioneering wildlife film-maker, broadcaster and
angling writer, was published by Medlar
Press in December 2007. See press
release
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In
association with Memoirs
Books of Cirencester I edit and ghostwrite books
for people who have stories to tell, whether
they're personal or family histories,
autobiographies or biographies or the stories of
companies or organisations.
Recent titles have included the memoirs of a retired
stage and TV producer who worked with the stars, the
life story of a 95-year-old retired Wing Commander
who was brought up as a farm boy in the 1920s, and
the story of a prominent family in the shipping and
textile industries through the 18th and 19th
centuries.
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