About Us

Editorial Assignments represents practising journalists, authors and editors. Several of our associates have been academics or trainers in the media & PR departments of universities and technikons. We have also worked extensively with the training units of corporates, and with community newspaper and radio organisations.

Our team includes journalists, non-fiction and creative writers, corporate communicators and brand managers, IT experts, and business consultants.  We help newcomers to get established in the media game, either as freelances or as fulltime journalists, authors, communicators, or marketing professionals.

As a result, we can offer a broad spectrum of mentoring and media expertise in virtually every area where writing, editing and production skills are required.

Tell us what you need and we will source the expertise to assist, whether it be writing, editing, production, media management, publishing or research.

Read about lead consultant Graeme Addison.

PERSONAL SUPPORT

You are assured of personal attention. From the start, we try to establish a close mentoring relationship so that you get the understanding and personal support you need to make steady progress.

The relationship is established in workshops and maintained by post and email, as well as further contact sessions where necessary, afterwards.

We do however provide extensive resources, readings and workshop notes, so you are never left at a loss. But the whole emphasis is on giving you the benefit of our practical skills, insight and experience.

WORKSHOPS

We run both scheduled and tailor-made workshops. The planned events are usually run at our elegant small-group conference centre at the Vaal River, but we also travel to other venues depending on need and availability.

The reason we run workshops rather than formal courses is that we believe writers learn best by doing, not theorising or rehearsing the rules of writing. This is absolutely true whether you aim to sell features or write short stories for magazines, turned your ideas into screenplays, formulate a plan for a book, or produce press releases for a company. There are no magic formulae! Everything depends on training yourself to develop ideas and turn them into words.

For an outline of how we help you with the techniques of writing, go here.

INNOVATION

We are particularly strong on innovation in Southern African media, having published numerous case studies and concepts to guide new initiatives. The convergence of media – print, audio-visual, online and telephony – demands convergent thinking.

The transformation of organisations through black empowerment and equity principles requires new approaches to employees, shareholders, customers, suppliers, government and the public. The development of new markets, newly literate audiences, and new forms of media all impose new demands for innovative ways of communicating. We work with you to define new directions.

If you have a media mission or difficulty and don't know how to tackle it, call us for guidance and mentoring.  With decades of experience of all types of communication channels in our team, we are able to determine your best media options and quickly place in your hands the tools you need to get the job done. We conduct research into what is required and what media users want. We mentor your staff, rolling up our sleeves to work jointly with writers, editors, web designers and production people to get real results.

PROFESSIONALISM

We are not an advertising or PR agency and we do not put a spin on things. Our objective is always to provide clear, consistent, honest evaluation and advice upon which your organisation can make informed editorial choices.