Mrs Jane Bentley

BA (Portsmouth)

Overview

Jane teaches news and feature writing, magazine craft and production on the Postgraduate Diploma and Masters in Magazine Journalism and the magazine pathway of the MA International Journalism.

She also teaches some practical journalism techniques at undergraduate level.

Lecturer and freelance writer, Jane has over ten years experience working on specialist consumer magazines as an Editor, Deputy Editor, Operations Editor, Production Editor and Editorial Assistant.

She has worked with both fully-freelance and in-house editorial teams and overseen the move of a bi-monthly title to a 13-issue ‘monthly’.

Some of the titles she has worked for include: What Mountain Bike, Cooler, T3, PC Format, MacFormat, Edge, Total Film.

She also worked for the Tindle Newspapers Group on the Farnham Herald and Surry & Hants News papers.