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Freelance Directory

The ACAJ manages a freelance directory, to connect Australian and international media with rural/regional freelancers.

Bec Jennings

Member ofRural Media South Australia

Medium:
  • Print
  • Online
  • Social media
  • PR/Communications
Industry:
  • Livestock
  • Grains
  • People/Communities
  • Agribusiness
  • Natural Resources
  • Agricultural Policy/Politics
State:

SA

Phone:

0427279421

Email:

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Rebecca's agricultural communications career includes:
* Livestock Editor at Queensland Country Life
* Media Manager at farm lobby group, AgForce Queensland
* Communications advisor at the CSIRO
* Technical writer for Coretext, specialising in grains and livestock

She now writes for a range of leading agricultural and rural publications including:
* Meat & Livestock Australia's 'Feedback' magazine
* Graziher magazine
* Corporate agribusiness stakeholder publications
* R&D publications

Bec McCosker

Member ofNational Rural Press Club

Medium:
  • Print
  • Online
  • Social media
Industry:
  • Livestock
  • People/Communities
  • Agricultural Policy/Politics
State:

NSW

Phone:

0431145924

Email:

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I have a passion for the rural people and rural communities. Every person has a different story and it's my passion to be able to help them share their story with the rest of Australia through freelance journalism. It is also a great way to let other people know the current issues which face many rural communities across Australia.

Chris Gillies

Member ofFarm Writers' Association of NSW Inc

Medium:
  • Print
  • Online
  • Social media
  • PR/Communications
Industry:
  • Livestock
  • Grains
  • Horticulture
  • People/Communities
  • Agribusiness
State:

NSW

Phone:

0439068752

Email:

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For over three years Chris Gillies has been freelance writer and journalist working with some of Australia’s largest rural agencies. In 2016, he completed a Masters of Arts (Journalism) at Charles Sturt University to go along side his Bachelor of Rural Management from the University of Sydney.

Chris writes for a US magazine on Australian grain supply chain issues, as well as branded content for Australian agribusiness with focus on horticulture, dairy and grains.

Prior to freelancing, he worked in communications in the grains industry and the meat and livestock industry. He has also worked as a grain trader, and in the shipping industry.

Jeanette Severs

Member ofRural Press Club of Victoria

Medium:
  • Print
  • Photography
  • Videography
Industry:
  • Livestock
  • Grains
  • Horticulture
  • Agribusiness
  • Natural Resources
State:

VIC

Phone:

0427 203 075

Email:

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Jeanette Severs is a multi-award-winning journalist and photographer who specialises in creating national content, telling the stories of Australian agriculture. Her work crosses all commodities (horticulture, livestock, grains/cropping, dairy, pasture, fibre) and issues important to agriculture (agripolitics, biosecurity, water and irrigation, weather, property and financial analyses).
She also writes stories about boutique commodities; for example, heritage pigs, herbs, truffles, vineyards, biodynamic and organic agriculture.
Jeanette value-adds her work with an online presence, blogging about her assignments where applicable; and uses her blog, twitter and Facebook to link directly to her work when clients publish it online.

Marian Macdonald

Member ofRural Press Club of Victoria

Medium:
  • Print
  • Online
  • Social media
  • PR/Communications
Industry:
  • Livestock
  • People/Communities
  • Agribusiness
  • Natural Resources
  • Agricultural Policy/Politics
State:

VIC

Phone:

0421530944

Email:

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Marian writes clean, compelling copy about the lives, businesses and environments facing famers with the insight of a fifth-generation farmer.

Her work has been featured on ABC radio, the SBS, The Weekly Times, Australian Dairyfarmer magazine and even Mamamia.

Marian is as adept online as in traditional media and conducts social media workshops for organisations keen to lift their profiles while protecting reputations.

Contact Marian Macdonald for the rare combination of journalism, marketing, public relations and farming experience it takes to craft compelling stories that truly resonate with readers.

Megan Hele

Member ofRural Media Association of Western Australia

Medium:
  • Graphic design
Industry:
  • Livestock
  • Grains
  • Cotton
  • Sugar
  • Horticulture
  • People/Communities
  • Agribusiness
  • Natural Resources
  • Agricultural Policy/Politics
  • Viticulture
State:

WA

Phone:

0438 022 680

Email:

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Using my design and print management experience, I can provide advice and support from concept through to layout, production, prepress and printing — producing a range of materials to meet your personal and professional communication and publishing needs.
As a result of almost ten years as Production Team Leader on Kondinin Group’s flagship magazine Farming Ahead - I have a wealth of experience in the layout of technical research-based content and pride myself on attention to detail.
Since establishing my own in business - Megan Hele Design - in 2011 I have provided design solutions to some of Australia’s leading agricultural entities.

Rodney Green Commercial and Rural Photography

Member ofRural Press Club of Queensland

Medium:
  • Photography
Industry:
  • Livestock
  • Grains
  • Cotton
  • Sugar
  • Horticulture
  • People/Communities
  • Agribusiness
  • Natural Resources
  • Agricultural Policy/Politics
  • Viticulture
State:

QLD

Phone:

0407 143 130

Email:

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Rodney Green is one of Australia’s leading rural photographers.
Rodney spent 37 years as Queensland Country Life’s chief photographer capturing images across both the state and regional Australia. He has been recognised with numerous awards during his time with both Rural Press and Fairfax and in 2013 was inducted by the Rural Press Club of Queensland into the Longreach Stockman’s Hall of Fame for his contribution to the bush.
Rodney specialises in all rural images including livestock, cropping and the faces of rural Australia and instigated his freelance business Rural Pics in 2015.

Sarah Clarry

Member ofFarm Writers' Association of NSW Inc

Medium:
  • Print
  • Photography
  • PR/Communications
Industry:
  • Livestock
  • Grains
  • Cotton
  • Agricultural Policy/Politics
State:

NSW

Phone:

0419 165 771

Email:

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Sarah studied journalism at the University of Canberra and a Master of Science in Agriculture through the University of New England. She worked with The Canberra Times and in magazine publishing, then spent 10 years at Unilever Australasia in Communications and Corporate Affairs.
Following her daughter’s birth she did crop research, then joined Coretext as a specialist writer for four years.
Sarah is now a freelance writer and media/communications consultant, specialising in agriculture and rural issues. She is a keen photographer, and won the 2016 NSW Farm Writers photography prize in the landscape category.
Sarah is based in the Tweed Valley in northern NSW.

Way With Words Professional Journalism

Member ofRural Press Club of Queensland

Medium:
  • Print
  • Broadcast
  • Photography
  • Online
  • Social media
  • PR/Communications
  • Videography
Industry:
  • People/Communities
  • Agribusiness
  • Agricultural Policy/Politics
State:

QLD

Phone:

0408 722 113

Email:

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Pete Lewis created his own freelance consultancy after a 35-year career in print and broadcast journalism – most of that covering rural and regional Australia.
He is a former foreign correspondent, Senior Reporter and Executive Producer of the ABC's award-winning rural affairs programme Landline.
His mission now is to advise individuals and organisations on their communications strategies – from social media through to video productions, press releases and event management.