Lee-Anne Duncan Writing, polishing, editing, simplifying, proofing and anything that's necessary to spread the word about your services, stories or skills - that's what I do!

 

Local Availability: Lower North Island

Media Experience
Print, Web, Radio, TV


Biographical Note
With 13 years experience in the media bizzo I am a copywriter, freelance writer and communications consultant.

I've worked across pretty much all media, including print, web, TV and radio as a journalist and producer, production manager and director. In New Zealand I've worked for Radio New Zealand, Newstalk ZB and TV3, while on my requisite OE I worked for BBC World TV and Reuters TV in London. Boy, they were good times.

Home again, and now with a family, I like to take things a little slower. For the past four years I've been working primarily in communications and copywriting, accented by freelance writing when I find a great story and have the chance to tell it. While I have published some stories under my own byline, I've written dozens under the name of others, or with no byline. Still, it's writing, and that's what I love!

I love writing about people and their ideas, but I also love simplifying messages and explaining concepts. I have supplied copy for countless social marketing projects and other public education campaigns, writing editorials, advertorials, articles, media releases, brochures, web content and TV scripts.

I'm very keen to get a bit more creative and try my hand at advertising copy and more persuasive wordsmithing. Always looking for that new string to my bow!

Despite not hailing from a farm, I seem to have written an awful lot about the primary sector, particularly agriculture and forestry. I can name more varieties of grass than most normal people know exist.... I'm counting that as a positive.

As for what my passions are - that would have to be food and cooking. But my sphere of knowledge is much wider than that because, to be impart and explain a concept, I have to become an expert in no time at all. And that's what I've always loved about working in journalism - you seriously do learn something new every day.

At the moment, among other bits and pieces, I am writing a book about child abuse, commissioned by The Institute of Child Studies, which is a charitable trust based in Hamilton that trains people how to recognise and respond to child abuse.

Published Writings
The Blueberry Farm - NZ Life & Leisure November 2008
Wedding Planners - Summer Magazine, The Dominion Post, January 2008
Mrs Whippy - Summer Magazine, The Dominion Post, January 2008
Flying High, Emily Buttle, Stilt-dancer - North & South, December 2007
Ruth Paul, Children's Writer - North & South, July 2008
Various home safety articles at www.homesafety.co.nz 
Fatigue in Forestry - NZ Logger, June 2009
Safety Culture in Forestry - NZ Logger, May 2009
Preventing Older Falls - Healthwise Magazine, 2008
Determination for the Job, Scott Baldwin, Truck-Driver - NZ Trucking March 2008

Contact Details
Wellington, New Zealand
Phone: 021 751 763

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