The Focus is a chance for freelance journalist members of www.journalistdirectory.com to tell colleagues, editors and PRs (in our separate newsletter from www.featuresexec.com) a bit more about their work and experience. If you’d like to take part email us on news@dwpub.com.
This week (pictured, right): Suzi Dixon
What do you write about? Anything required! My favourite commissions are anything to do with beauty, health and spas and I also love working for Perfect Wedding – it’s fabulously girly and full of gorgeous jewellery and dresses!
Where are we likely to see your work? Just Google me! The Telegraph stuff ranks the highest but I’ve also been on the features staff at the Western Daily Press and Bristol Evening Post. Magazines = too many to mention but my favourites are Perfect Wedding, Grazia, You (Mail on Sunday), Seven (Telegraph Saturday) and Red.
What’s the most memorable work you’ve done? Writing about the manatees at SeaWorld in Orlando – did a travel piece and an eco piece and the whole trip was fabulous!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3311422/Manatees-get-top-billing-on-SeaWorld-tour.html
What interview or feature would you love the chance to do? I’d love to do more real life pieces, not celebrities but just the average woman and how she overcomes obstacles in her life…we all deal with dramas on a daily basis and people fascinate me!
How would you pay the bills if you weren’t a journalist? I did ballroom and latin dancing from the age of 5 and did my exams to teach when I was 17…but working for a local paper, I already had the journo bug!
If we gave you £1,000, how would you spend it? I’d take my best friends out for a lavish meal, champagne and a night at the casino.
What books are on your bedside table, magazines in your bag, or blogs on your screen? Honestly? Trash lit such as Jilly Cooper and Jackie Collins. Escapist and I love it!
Get in touch with Suzi Dixon via the Freelance Journalist Directory: http://www.journalistdirectory.com/journalist/Ezz/Suzi-Dixon/
