Grace Banks

About

Editorial director working at senior level providing editorial strategy, team management, commercial content creation and commissioning across digital, social and print. Formerly news editor at NBCNews.com’s Breaking News, I’ve written for The Guardian, Forbes.com, The New York Times, Interview Magazine, VICE, Wallpaper* Magazine, Radio 4, i Newspaper, Al Jazeera and others. I have filed stories from Dhaka, Istanbul, Palestine, Lebanon, Hong Kong, South Korea, Chile, Sharjah, Ghana, Lebanon, India and Tunisia. I have appeared on BBC Radio 4 discussing the arts, gender and current affairs, and have given talks and hosted panels for The Barbican, The Store and Soho House among others. Experience and skills: * Cross platform digital editorial strategy * Podcast and video strategy, video editing and Google Analytics * Social media strategy * Solid understanding of UK media law, editing for global news brands and smaller digital media companies * Track record of commissioning and editing high profile and emerging journalists * Editorial direction for print magazines