About Journalism.co.uk

Journalism.co.uk is published by Mousetrap Media Ltd, an independent online publishing company.

Mousetrap Media Ltd
100 North Road
Brighton
East Sussex BN1 1YE

Tel: +44 (0)1273 384293
Fax: +44 (0)1273 232179
Email: info at mousetrapmedia.co.uk

Company registration no: 3998973
VAT no: 744 7604 19

Please send all story suggestions, press releases etc to laura at journalism.co.uk.

All display advertising enquiries should be emailed to chris at journalism.co.uk; telephone +44 (0)1273 384291.

All other site enquiries should be emailed to ed at journalism.co.uk

dotJournalism staff

John Thompson - publisher/owner

Tel: +44 (0)1273 384293
Email: john at journalism.co.uk
Twitter: @johncthompson
Delicious: johnthompson

John Thompson began his journalism career on a local newspaper and spent more years than he cares to admit freelancing mostly as a layout/sub-editor on business and professional publications.

He launched www.journalism.co.uk in early 1999 and his online publishing and news photography business Mousetrap Media Ltd was fully incorporated in May 2000.

Laura Oliver - editor

Tel: +44 (0)1273 384290
Email: laura at journalism.co.uk
Twitter: @lauraoliver
Delicious: lauraatjournalism.co.uk

Laura arrived at Journalism.co.uk after a year in London qualifying as a journalist.

She spent four years studying English in Edinburgh and a move to Brighton with its promise of sea fogs and deep fried food was too tempting to pass up.

Outside of all things new media, football, books and baking rank amongst her favourite things - though not all three at once - and she can rarely turn down a nice dark rum.

Judith Townend - senior reporter

Tel: +44 (0)1273 384290
Email: judith at journalism.co.uk
Twitter: @jtownend
Delicious: judithatjournalism.co.uk

Judith comes to journalism.co.uk after testing the waters of a few journalistic environments. As well as doing her fair share of work experience (aka vox pops in the rain) in various newspaper offices across the UK, she worked as a researcher at Al Jazeera English and as an occasional freelancer. Most recently she was deputy editor at an arts and entertainment magazine in Leeds.

Now she is very happy to settle in sunny (if a little bit windy) Brighton to really, truly embrace online media, rather than getting scared by what's happening to print.

Away from work, she likes to escape the computer screen if possible and get some fresh air, read lots of books and weekend newspaper supplements, and spend time with her friends. She often contemplates alternative careers as a florist or pastry chef before realising she probably wouldn't have the patience or talent for either of those jobs.

She also blogs at From the Online.

Chris Evans-Roberts - senior media sales/account manager

Tel: +44 (0)1273 384291
Email: chris at journalism.co.uk
Twitter: @cevansroberts

Chris is the person to contact about: PressGo! (our press release publishing and distribution service) and display advertising (banner/buttons/email insertions)

Chris made the move to Brighton four years ago coming from a sleepy village in the Oxfordshire countryside.

With a full tour of the world and a degree at the University of Brighton under his belt he has since worked in investment banking, as a television jingle composer and as a wizard at children’s parties before finally joining the team at Journalism.co.uk.

While not in the office he enjoys the Brighton music scene, playing in several bands and can regularly be found tapping his feet at gigs across the town.

Adam Cox - media sales/account manager

Tel: +44 (0)1273 384291
Email: adam at journalism.co.uk
Twitter: @adamjcox

Adam is the person to contact about: University, college and distance learning course listings, the short course training diary and display advertising (banner/buttons/email insertions).

Adam moved to Brighton three years ago from the rural town of Romsey in Hampshire to study Communication and Digital Media at the University of Brighton.

During his degree Adam worked in several capacities to fund his studies including a theme park ride operator and video game retail assistant.

Now with degree in hand Adam is ready for the relentless real world and fills the position of online media sales/account manager here at Journalism.co.uk.

During his free time Adam enjoys cycling, music and computer games and can often be found at various music festivals over the summer.

Harriet Lindsay - production assistant

Tel: +44 (0)1273 384293
Email: harriet at journalism.co.uk
Twitter: @hsalindsay

Harriet is the person to contact about: invoices and payments, events and awards.

Harriet graduated from the University of East Anglia in 2009 with a degree in music.

Having decided that the musicians' lifestyle was not for her, Harriet moved from Croydon to Brighton searching for fresh air and Tuaca.

At the weekends you will find her lost in the lanes or baking her favourite lavender cupcakes.

Edward Martin - production manager

Tel: +44 (0)1273 384293
Email: ed at journalism.co.uk
Twitter: EdJournalism

Ed is the person to contact about: freelance listings, job adverts, events/awards pages, our training courses, the links directory and accounts.

Ed graduated from the University of Sussex in 2007 with a degree in social anthropology, and having dabbled in the labyrinthine bureaucracy of the NHS for a time after brief stints selling first sweets and then books to the people of Brighton, has come to work for Journalism.co.uk.

Having moved to Brighton from rural Herefordshire some five years ago, Ed has come to rather like the seaside way of life. Outside of Journalism.co.uk, he enjoys reading, writing, photography, music and computer games.

Joel Gunter - sub-editor

Tel: +44 (0)1273 384293
Email: joel at journalism.co.uk
Twitter: joelmgunter

Joel is the person to contact about: editing errors and long-winded discussions about the use of semi-colons.

Having left Journalism.co.uk back in September 2007 to undertake an English MA at UCL, Joel returns (possibly) triumphantly (he hasn't had his results yet...) to the fold as sub-editor. Although currently braving a slightly back-to-front London-to-Brighton commute every day, he is planning on returning to Brighton in the near future.

When not at work Joel is mostly commuting, but ordinarily he likes to sit and read, take long walks, and do other less pretentious things involving lots of brilliant American television, sitting in the pub, and writing about music.

Colin Meek - consulting editor

Colin Meek has been a freelance news and features journalist for 10 years and his work currently appears on three ground-breaking internet publications. Before he began his freelance career, he worked on two high-profile news magazines over eight years, breaking a string of stories that were picked up by the UK's national media.

In 2003 he was awarded a Special Commendation at the national 2003 Norwich Union Medical Journalist Association awards for feature writing.

He specialises in medicine and health but has always been interested in how the internet is changing journalism. He has covered online journalism for dotJournalism for several years, and came up with the original concept for the newsletter.

He is working on his second book.