Freelance journalist in Yorkshire

Andy's vast writing experience makes him an outstanding freelance journalist in Yorkshire

After many years in journalism I’ve found I just can’t stop writing … and don’t want to leave this all-important skill behind as it keeps me sharp in my blogging and ghost-writing autobiographies.

So, as a freelance journalist I’m always on the lookout for a great story that will make it into the media – be that newspapers, online or just social media – and it often means excellent publicity for clients.

Since going freelance I’ve achieved masses of media coverage for charities as well as for celebrities ranging from singer Michael Ball to news presenter Eamonn Holmes.

I’ve also been on the investigative trail too breaking stories on customers being exchanged exorbitant rates for fuel prices through to an ongoing problem with Citroen cars that’s costing their owners a fortune and putting them in danger too.

Some stories are just irresistible and this one was also published widely in the media. Maurice Sutcliffe, was a D-Day veteran and was due to meet Prince William when veterans commemorated the 75th anniversary of the historic landings at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire on June 6, 2019.

He’d travelled down for the event but shortly before 7am that morning – exactly as the D-Day landings started 75 years before - the 97-year-old was found on the floor of his hotel room after a fall left him with face and back injuries.

Maurice was so shaken up it meant he was unable attend what would have been his first commemoration of D-Day and had to be taken home instead. I strongly felt his story should be told so went to interview him … and what he told me about his crucial role that day was truly amazing. Here it is and the links to the media coverage are at the end https://bit.ly/2YXtO5m

Sadly Maurice died a year later, but I’m so glad I’d managed to get his story for future generations … a story he’d not told to anyone else before.

A major news organisation that’s asked me for help is Yorkshire Live run by Reach PLC, owners of the Mirror and Sunday Mirror along with many prominent regional newspapers.

I’d previously set up the Huddersfield Daily Examiner’s Community Awards and was asked to write all 36 stories on those shortlisted for the 2020 awards and then hosted them online with ITN newsreader Nina Hossain in a pioneering virtual awards ceremony that led to dozens of other awards events being staged the same way.

More about this at https://bit.ly/3p7s3NK

I was also commissioned by Reach PLC to write the first ever publication featuring the top 100 businesses in Kirklees https://bit.ly/39ZtbhM

I now write several stories a week for online news website Huddersfield Hub (https://huddersfieldhub.co.uk/) which range from in-depth features to charity and great human interest stories.

So there you have it, a range of the stories I can write from breaking news to human interest features, awards nights and business stories. All this is on top of the countless thousands of stories I wrote during my 35 years in journalism.

If you need a freelance journalist please email me at andy@ah-pr.com or why not even give me a call on 07985 654822.