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Curriculum
Vitae
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Amanda Castleman is an award-winning freelance journalist, specializing
in travel, the environment and women’s issues. Her features have
appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Italy Daily,
the UK’s Daily Mail, MSNBC, Wired, Salon, Time
Out, The Athens News and on the BBC. She has also worked as an editor,
web and graphic designer.
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Experience
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Freelance Journalism, Seattle, America (August 2004 to present)
Travel Writing Instructor: www.writers.com. Regular Contributor: The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Moviemaker Magazine, and Road and Travel. Freelance publications include MSNBC, Trip, Living Abroad and Travelgirl. Book credits include Frommer's, Michelin, National Geographic, a travel-writing textbook and Greece, A Love Story.
Freelance Journalism, Greece, Cyprus, the UK and US (October 2002 to August 2004)
Travel Writing Instructor: www.writers.com. Regular Contributor: Road and Travel and The Athens News. Clients included The Mail on Sunday, Wired News, The Rough Guide to Italy and Time Out's Athens Guide.
American Academy in Rome, Italy (September 2000 to August 2002)
Visiting Writer. Freelance Journalist for the International Herald Tribune's Italy Daily, Wired and the UK’s Daily Mail, among others. I began a novel, Fishing for Saints, and produced Aristophanes' Clouds.
Oxford Mail and The Oxford Times, Oxford, England (September 99 to August 2000)
Feature Writer and Sub-Editor. Although primarily a reporter – specializing in travel, books, IT, human interest and the environment – I also proofread and designed pages.
Oxbow Books, Oxford, England (September 98 to September 99)
Web and Graphic Designer. Duties included design and maintenance of a commercial web site, book publicity, cover design, typesetting and proofing for an independent publisher.
Freelance Editing and Design, Oxfordshire, England (October 97 to September 98)
Graphic Designer: Past Times and Woolacott Davidson Advertising Agency. Assistant: Oxford University Press, ELT department. Copyeditor: various theses.
The Gist Magazine
Group, Oxford, England (November 96 to October 97)
Founding Editor. I launched four British commercial monthly titles (circulation
40,000). Duties included commissioning, DTP, supervising pre-press and
staff management.
The Daily,
University of Washington, Seattle, America (September 93 to September
96)
Various positions including Editor-in-Chief and News Editor. Duties included
reporting, photography, subbing, editing and DTP. As Editor, I trained
new employees and directed a 60-person staff (circulation 18,000).
Savage Love Live,
Seattle, America (September 94 to September 96)
Part-time Researcher. I prepared background for pundit Dan Savage’s
weekly radio program.
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Freelance
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The International Herald Tribune's Italy
Daily, Wired Magazine, Wired News, Athens News, MSNBC,
Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday, The
Seattle Post-Intelligencer, BBC Thames Valley FM, Salon Magazine, MSN
Underwire, Cotswold Life, Corriere della Sera, The International Examiner,
AA Guide to Rome, In These Times, Moviemaker, Travel Age West, International
Living, Trip, Living Abroad, Intelliguides, Z-Guides, Road and Travel,
Adbusters, Gloucester Echo, Western Daily Press, Nervy Girl, Bitch, Northwest
Travel, Aspen Daily News, Outdoor West, Business and Marketing Management,
Wanted in Rome, Continental Drift, Destinworld, eMedia, Red Group, Efemera,
Fresh Direction
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Skills
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Packages: QuarkXpress, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Pagemaker, Freehand, Excel, HoTMetaL, Powerpoint, Word and Wordperfect, various database programs
Internet: HTML, web-site maintenance, tweaking basic Java script and cgi
scripts
Graphics: photography (darkroom and electronic printing); experience with
packaging,
book covers, newspaper and magazine design, and outputting digital files for color repro
Languages: BA in Latin, competent Italian, fading German and Ancient Greek
Diving: Advanced open-water certification
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