Gavin Gibbon, Manager - PR & Communications

Gavin Gibbon

Manager - PR & Communications

Core Savills

Lieu
Émirats Arabes Unis
Éducation
Diplôme, NCE Journalism
Expérience
24 years, 6 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :24 years, 6 Mois

Manager - PR & Communications à Core Savills
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • Je travaille ici depuis février 2016

Preparing press releases and handling media enquiries on behalf of our CEO. In the short time I have been with the company I have increased our online media presence by over 350%.

PR Editor à OSN
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • juin 2015 à décembre 2015

Producing the monthly staff newsletter. I organised a press conference for the launch of the Rugby World Cup 2015 coverage and regularly assisted in writing and editing press releases.

Editor of Education Journal Middle East à ITP Publishing
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • janvier 2015 à mai 2015

New title launched, I was responsible for writing and editing an 80-page magazine, sourcing interviews and content, liaising with photographers and designers.

Editor of Construction Week Online à ITP Publishing
  • Émirats Arabes Unis - Dubaï
  • novembre 2013 à janvier 2015

Updating the website on a regular basis to ensure fresh content. I regularly hit 800, 000 visitors per month to the site. I also assisted with writing industry articles for the weekly magazine Construction Week.

Chief reporter/Deputy editor à Hawick News
  • Royaume Uni
  • septembre 2008 à octobre 2013

Covering all aspects of local journalism and deputising for the editor when he was on leave, which involved writing and designing a 40-page (minimum) weekly newspaper.

Sports reporter/Sub editor à Lancashire Telegraph
  • Royaume Uni
  • août 2005 à août 2008

Reported on Blackburn Rovers, Burnley and Accrington Stanley FC, covering matches and press conferences. Was involved in designing the sports pages and sub-editing articles.

Reporter à Fife Free Press
  • Royaume Uni
  • novembre 2002 à juillet 2005

Covering all aspects of local journalism - council meetings, court cases, sporting fixtures. All types of on and off diary news

Staff writer à Border Weeklies
  • Royaume Uni
  • octobre 1999 à novembre 2002

Covering local news, on and off diary stories, courts, council meetings, sports matches. Interviewing politicians.

Éducation

Diplôme, NCE Journalism
  • à Strathclyde University
  • mai 2005

Day release university course covering law, shorthand and writing skills

Diplôme supérieur, HND Journalism
  • à Borders College
  • mai 1999

The course included outcomes on law, economics, shorthand and politics.

Etudes secondaires ou équivalent, N/A
  • à Hawick High School
  • janvier 1997

English CSYS B Higher English B Higher Modern Studies B Higher History B Higher Accounting C

Specialties & Skills

Public Relations
Social Media
Editing
Shorthand
Writing
SOCIAL MEDIA
ACCOUNTANCY
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
AVID MEDIA COMPOSER
FUNDRAISING
INDESIGN
REPORTS
WRITTEN ENGLISH
EDITING
SHORTHAND

Langues

Anglais
Expert

Formation et Diplômes

NCE Journalism (Formation)
Institut de formation:
NCTJ Training
Date de la formation:
September 2004
Durée:
70 heures
Social Media Marketing (Formation)
Institut de formation:
ISM Training
Date de la formation:
July 2016
Durée:
24 heures

Loisirs

  • Running
    I have completed 15 marathons as well as several half marathons and 10k events, raising many thousands of pounds for charity - Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Cancer Research UK and MND Scotland in particular