Adele Jennings

About

Experienced Art Director with a demonstrated history of working in the newspaper industry. Skilled in newspaper production, designing newspaper pages, typography, image production, motion graphics, video editing, Adobe Creative Suite, Indesign, Photoshop, Canva, social media design, logo design, including campaign logos. Pre-press, re-designs, new launches. Managing and leading people, project management. Working across newspapers, magazines, supplements, specials and social media. Strong art and design professional with over 28 years experience. Proud to have designed the first ever Daily Mirror digital front pages and specials for our social channels using motion graphics and video. Part of Reach’s editorial AI working group. Delving into the world of AI to learn new skills and create ways we can use AI to assist with the creation of infographics and other aspects of design. Working with a team of people on our content management system upgrade. Chair of the Reach Family & Carers Network. One of 9 internal networks for colleagues at Reach. Along with our the committee, I am responsible for event ideas aimed at helping family and carers, implementing, organising and promoting those. Writing engaging content for our newsletter, designing promos, writing and designing Facebook posts and designing additional useful booklets. Owner of ourfamilylife.co.uk. All blog content sourced, written and designed by Adele. Website design using Squarespace. Vlogger experience making family videos and editing them for Our Family Life YouTube channel. Social media design. Experience of presenting videos on Child Internet Safety for parents. Working as an ambassador for Internet Matters. Appeared on Sky News, Channel 5 News, TalkRadio, ITV, BBC 5 Live and BBC Kent. Worked with Internet Matters, Disney, NSPCC, EE, Nokia, Mumsnet, Kurio and Pizza Express on Our Family Life projects. Also working with The Battle of Britain Memorial. Had features published in the Daily Mirror, the Sunday Mirror, Sunday People, Love Sunday magazine, the Daily Express and Evening Standard. Experience of travel writing. Produced a family life full page column in the Sunday People. Content sourced, written, designed and image production by Adele. As a family, we appeared on ITV’s What Would Your Kid Do and won our episode of the show. BTEC Higher National Diploma in Newspaper Design and Information Graphics from Newcastle College and a National Diploma in Graphic Design from Batley School of Art and Design. Received a Distinction for Level 5 Operations/Departmental Management.