Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
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Angie  Kelly

Angie Kelly

Editor, Content Manager
Sydney,NSW

Summary

Content Manager with a strong background in coming up with relatable stories and clickable angles.

Strategic storyteller with a long track record of successful collaboration with all the professionals involved in creating beautiful and engaging content across diverse fields. Also skilled at simplifying complex topics for a general audience.

Overview

2018
2018
years of professional experience

Work History

Launch Editor, The Lighthouse

lighthouse.mq.edu.au Macquarie University
2017 - 2025
  • Designed and built Macquarie University's first research news platform aimed at a general audience.
  • Built and maintained relationships with researchers, journalists, photographers, video suppliers, social media colleagues and senior management in order to build and grow our readership, subscribers and media coverage.
  • Built a promotional eco-system to boost our content through eDMs, media pitching, internal newsletters, intranet and social media audiences.
  • Delivered an on-going roadshow across the faculties promoting The Lighthouse, showcasing success stories and explaining how to simplify research results for general news.
  • Edited articles for clarity and accuracy in line with in-house style, wrote headlines and standfirsts.

Commercial Content Editor

Flight Centre, Scenic Tours, The Travel Corporation, Made by Fairfax, Virgin Voyeur
07.2016 - 04.2017
  • Ideas, ideas, ideas!
  • Collaborating with advertisers and publishers to create newsy and relatable content for print and digital platforms.

Editor, Traveller on Sunday

Fairfax Media (Nine)
10.2012 - 07.2015
  • Responsible for up to 40 pages a week - coming up with strong cover stories, commissioning a network of freelance writers, maintaining relationships with advertisers and famil sponsors.
  • Writing, editing, proof-reading.

Deputy Editor, Traveller on Sunday

Fairfax Media (Nine)
06.2011 - 10.2012

* Created, commissioned and edited content for Traveller Special Reports.

Editor, Essential Style (Fashion and Home)

Sydney Morning Herald
03.2009 - 05.2012
  • Working with Australia's top and emerging fashion and interiors designers to create relatable content.
  • Working with stylists, hair and make-up professionals and photographers on regular location and flat lay fashion shoots.
  • Unearthing cover shots and writing headlines, cover lines and page one puffs.

Editor, Special Reports (Commerical content)

The Sun Herald, Fairfax Media (Nine)
03.2005 - 04.2009
  • Creating editorial content for advertising partnerships including City of Sydney, the Australian Jockey Club, the City to Surf, the Royal Easter Show and Real Estate specials.

Education

Graduate Certificate of Editing And Electronic Publishing (Staff Scholarship) - Department of Linguistics

Macquarie University
Sydney, New South Wales, NSW
09-2025

Skills

  • Content development and brainstorming
  • Creative storytelling
  • Writing and editing
  • Project management
  • Story pitching and commissioning
  • Fact-checking and grammar mastery
  • Deadline management
  • Style guide proficiency
  • Collaboration with clients, writers, designers

Accomplishments

Mumbrella Publish Awards 2020 short list: Best Response to COVID-19
The Lighthouse, lighthouse.mq.edu.au

Timeline

Commercial Content Editor

Flight Centre, Scenic Tours, The Travel Corporation, Made by Fairfax, Virgin Voyeur
07.2016 - 04.2017

Editor, Traveller on Sunday

Fairfax Media (Nine)
10.2012 - 07.2015

Deputy Editor, Traveller on Sunday

Fairfax Media (Nine)
06.2011 - 10.2012

Editor, Essential Style (Fashion and Home)

Sydney Morning Herald
03.2009 - 05.2012

Editor, Special Reports (Commerical content)

The Sun Herald, Fairfax Media (Nine)
03.2005 - 04.2009

Launch Editor, The Lighthouse

lighthouse.mq.edu.au Macquarie University
2017 - 2025

Graduate Certificate of Editing And Electronic Publishing (Staff Scholarship) - Department of Linguistics

Macquarie University
Angie KellyEditor, Content Manager