About Wesley
English
Native or bilingual
Experience
- Rock Comms LtdDirectorJanuary 2025 - Today (1 year and 5 months)Providing consulting services for strategic communications agencies, offering insight gained from over a decade in senior media roles. Advising on strategy, media engagement, reputation management and winning new business.
- NewsweekSenior EditorJune 2024 - December 2024 (6 months)Head of Live News department and lead editor on Newsweek's US election coverage. Tasked with improving search visibility by 50% — achieved 300%.Established a new AI-focused department with custom-built tools to cover politics and live, breaking stories.Oversaw a newsroom-wide SEO-focused restructure that helped the title on its way to becoming the fastest-growing of the world's top 50 English-language news sites.
- The TelegraphNews EditorApril 2023 - June 2024 (1 year and 2 months)Primary responsibility for planning, commissioning and editing the Sunday Telegraph, and the Telegraph's award-winning weekend website.Reporting to the editor, I conceived, planned and edited agenda-setting investigations and exclusives. Managed specialist reporters, correspondents and the parliamentary team to generate ideas and execute them.Led teams of news editors, reporters and audience engagement journalists to get ahead of the news agenda and find the angles that would shape the national conversation.
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Education
- Bachelor of ArtsUniversity College LondonBA (Hons) Philosophy