Kurt Jacobs

About

I have long and widespread experience working in business journalism and in PR, particularly in the Midlands. I was business editor on South Wales Argus and South Wales Evening Post, before becoming deputy business editor of The Birmingham Post in 1994. Since then I have been editor of the national marketing magazine Adline and am on my second stint as editor of Insider, the Midlands Magazine of the Year. I have also had quite extensive PR experience latterly working as head of PR at Marketing Birmingham and as a freelance working on accounts like Defra, DTI, the Home Office, GVA Grimley, IMI and some facilities management specialists. Specialties: Editing, business journalism, feature and profile writing. Particular sectors of interest include business finance, manufacturing, commercial property, HR, marketing, round tables, leader writing, online news bulletins. On the PR side specialism include: corporate and strategic comms, destination marketing, speech writing, events organisation, inward investment, company reports, newsletters, magazines, online newsletters.