Miguel Vasconcelos CV
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Miguel Vasconcelos [email protected] - 07582 845017 57u Wyndford Road, Glasgow, G20 8EX PERSONAL STATEMENT A creative web content developer & journalist with training in Digital Marketing and experience delivering content for different types of media, readership and platforms seeking an opportunity as a writer. Adept storyteller with exceptional writing and editing skills, confident taking my own initiative when sourcing, developing, editing or publishing content on a wide range of topics. Proficient with PPC, SEO and social media or email and cross-promotional web campaigns to effectively manage & market web content. Trained young journalist always able to deliver in high pressured environments and within narrow time constraints. I haven’t missed a deadline yet! Fluent in English, German, Spanish and Portuguese. WORK EXPERIENCE Freelance Senior News Editor, January 2015 – ongoing Blasting News – http://www.blastingnews.com/ Online breaking news publication in the United Kingdom. Promoted to Senior News Editor, in May 2015, now responsible for editing and approving junior news reporters’ articles as well as independently publishing my own work. Published, as a junior and senior reporter, various articles on politics, international & current affairs, health, business & the economy. Responsible for all the digital promotion of my own content: making use of digital marketing principles such as trend analytics, SEO and social media campaigns to attract more traffic to my articles and the Blasting News UK website. I have built a following of more than 2.000 unique readers - being one of the most followed and read freelancers - on Blasting News UK. Regularly asked to assist the managers of Blasting News UK in the development and management of back-office content as well as recruiting and advising new junior freelancers. Bio, readers, followers & articles can be viewed in http://uk.blastingnews.com/editorial- staff/miguel-vasconcelos/ Content Creation Executive, June 2015 - ongoing Sooqini - http://sooqini.com/ Experts team providing B2B digital marketing assistance. Delivering a wide range of content production and digital marketing activities for professional clients, including SEO-friendly blog posts, newsletter development and social media content management. Responsible for liaising with clients (usually small businesses) to determine specifics and rates of each task. Freelance Content Writer, October 2014 – January 2015 FourFourFeed- http://www.fourfourfeed.com/ Developing and promoting a variety of viral & trending entertainment-oriented content. Applying a wide range of digital marketing skills to ensure content goes viral. Articles can be viewed in http://www.fourfourfeed.com/author/miguel-vasconcelos/ Journalism Internship, March 2012 – July 2012 Visão Magazine, Impresa, Lisbon - http://visao.sapo.pt/ Market-leader weekly current affairs magazine in Portugal (a readership of over 533 thousand). Integrated in the international news section of the publication under 2 senior reporters. Developed and published over 50 features and news stories about international current affairs. (Articles can be viewed in the additional information section). Responsible for researching all information and sources used in the articles published. Assisted co-workers seeking information, sources and material in English or German.
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Miguel Vasconcelos
[email protected] - 07582 845017 57u Wyndford Road, Glasgow, G20 8EX
PERSONAL STATEMENT
A creative web content developer & journalist with training in Digital Marketing and experience delivering content for different types of media, readership and platforms seeking an opportunity as a writer.
Adept storyteller with exceptional writing and editing skills, confident taking my own initiative when sourcing, developing, editing or publishing content on a wide range of topics.
Proficient with PPC, SEO and social media or email and cross-promotional web campaigns to effectively manage & market web content.
Trained young journalist always able to deliver in high pressured environments and within narrow time constraints. I haven’t missed a deadline yet!
Fluent in English, German, Spanish and Portuguese. WORK EXPERIENCE
Freelance Senior News Editor, January 2015 – ongoing
Blasting News – http://www.blastingnews.com/ Online breaking news publication in the United Kingdom.
Promoted to Senior News Editor, in May 2015, now responsible for editing and approving junior news reporters’ articles as well as independently publishing my own work.
Published, as a junior and senior reporter, various articles on politics, international & current affairs, health, business & the economy.
Responsible for all the digital promotion of my own content: making use of digital marketing principles such as trend analytics, SEO and social media campaigns to attract more traffic to my articles and the Blasting News UK website.
I have built a following of more than 2.000 unique readers - being one of the most followed and read freelancers - on Blasting News UK.
Regularly asked to assist the managers of Blasting News UK in the development and management of back-office content as well as recruiting and advising new junior freelancers.
Bio, readers, followers & articles can be viewed in http://uk.blastingnews.com/editorial-staff/miguel-vasconcelos/
Content Creation Executive, June 2015 - ongoing
Sooqini - http://sooqini.com/ Experts team providing B2B digital marketing assistance.
Delivering a wide range of content production and digital marketing activities for professional clients, including SEO-friendly blog posts, newsletter development and social media content management.
Responsible for liaising with clients (usually small businesses) to determine specifics and rates of each task.
Freelance Content Writer, October 2014 – January 2015
FourFourFeed- http://www.fourfourfeed.com/
Developing and promoting a variety of viral & trending entertainment-oriented content.
Applying a wide range of digital marketing skills to ensure content goes viral.
Articles can be viewed in http://www.fourfourfeed.com/author/miguel-vasconcelos/ Journalism Internship, March 2012 – July 2012
Visão Magazine, Impresa, Lisbon - http://visao.sapo.pt/ Market-leader weekly current affairs magazine in Portugal (a readership of over 533 thousand).
Integrated in the international news section of the publication under 2 senior reporters.
Developed and published over 50 features and news stories about international current affairs. (Articles can be viewed in the additional information section).
Responsible for researching all information and sources used in the articles published.
Assisted co-workers seeking information, sources and material in English or German.
EDUCATION DMI Professional Diploma in Digital Marketing, March 2015 – ongoing
DMI (Digital Marketing Institute) – United Kingdom.
Developing an overall ability to plan, create, manage and effectively promote web content
through search, social media, mobile and email marketing campaigns.
Currently completing modules in key areas such as Pay per Click advertising (PPC), Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), E-Mail & Social Media Marketing and Google Analytics.
Developing skills to drive new visitor traffic to designated website while improving online conversation rates and overall ‘brand reputation’.
The DMI Professional diploma in Digital Marketing is “the most widely taught, industry-
accredited available in digital marketing”. MSc in Investigative Journalism (with Merit), September 2013 – September 2014
University of Strathclyde – Glasgow, Scotland.
Selected for an investigative journalism team that developed a feature story involving the use of FOI’s, locating and interviewing witnesses or sources and several other news production skills.
Submission of several original and independently researched local Glasgow news articles intended for multi-platform publication (Facebook, blog and Twitter).
Passed with merit classes on Scot’s Law for Journalists and Media Ethics.
Developed several multimedia packet projects involving the use of audio and video editing.
Submission of an investigative journalism article with original information, material, analysis and interviews about the Madeline McCann case.
Post-Graduation course in Human Rights and Democratisation, January 2013 – June 2013
University of Coimbra, Human Rights Centre, Coimbra, Portugal.
In-depth research and academic work produced on Discrimination, Equality, Armed Conflicts and Peace Processes.
BA (First Hons) in International Relations and Political Science, September 2008 – January 2012
Catholic University of Portugal, Institute of Political Studies, Lisbon, Portugal.
Presented speeches in the XVII, XVIII and XIX international annual meetings in Political Studies, with participants like the European Commission President Durão Barroso, the Secretary General of EUROPAEUM, Paul Flather or the British Ambassador in Lisbon, Jill Gallard.
ERASMUS semester in Germany, completing an International Political Economics class (taught in German) with 18 (0-20 scale) and an A1 level Mandarin course.
Passed with merit classes ranging from Political Theory and International Economy to Philosophy, Statistics or Theology.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Proficient user of Microsoft Office Suite software, Wordpress, CAT tools and other IT skills.
B-Type clean driver’s license valid in the UK.
TOEFL exam completed on November 3rd 2012, with 101.
Access to articles written and published on Visão magazine: https://www.dropbox.com/s/05dq2oak78lt3cp/Portfolio%20artigos%20da%20vis%C3%A3o%2012.04%20-%2030.05.pdf And https://www.dropbox.com/s/8m3zxw91xe0ugvy/Portfolio%20artigos%20da%20vis%C3%A3o%2031.05%20-%2018.07.pdf
REFERENCES
References are available on request.
