About
- 11.Jul
- Hello
This is the website of David Quinn – freelance writer, journalist and blogger based in Manchester.
As an award-winning journalist with almost a decade of experience on national titles, I can help you with words of any sort, from news to features to web copy.
I provide content for blogs and can manage your social media activity on sites like Twitter and Facebook. I specialise in short deadlines.
My journalistic portfolio spans a wide range of topics from Hazel Blears to Donald Trump via New York, Tokyo and Blackpool. Please take a look at it here.
About me
After graduating from the University of Liverpool in 2000 I landed a job on weekly commercial property magazine Estates Gazette, largely on the basis of an interview with Countdown host Richard Whiteley I’d done for the student newspaper.
I subsequently relocated to Manchester and was appointed North & Scotland editor in 2007. I decided to leave EG in summer 2009 to do a one-year MA in documentary filmmaking at the University of Salford.
I have a wide range of interests including design, film, electronic music and football and I’ve written for my own blogs since 2006.
Contact me
+44 (0) 7841 115601
Portfolio
- 23.May
- Maxim
Not an alien concept
Estates Gazette
23/05/2009
Going boldly: A vast speculative scheme is being built – and the developers are optimistic. How on earth will the figures for Maxim add up? asks David Quinn
Mr Spock would probably describe it as highly illogical. Bringing forward more than 750,000 sq ft of offices in a single massive lump, just [...]- 21.Feb
- Liverpool
Back to the bad old days?
Estates Gazette
21/02/2009
Take-up declines: Hopes that the private sector would take office space on the back of Capital of Culture status have not materialised, and agents are once again looking to public-sector requirements. David Quinn reports
Say it quietly, but 2009 is feeling a bit like 1999 in Liverpool. Take-up is sluggish, [...]
Latest
- 16.Feb
- EG Manchester Focus
Estates Gazette continues to offer me work on the basis that their fees are spent exclusively on Bombay Bad Boy Pot Noodles. To this end, I am authoring a feature on Manchester city centre development. Synopsis here. If you have something useful to contribute, please contact me via email, phone, fax etc. Deadline w/b Feb 22-ish.
- 09.Jan
- Liverpool feature for Estates Gazette
I’m writing a piece about regeneration in Liverpool for EG with a deadline of 25 January. The synopsis is here.
- 05.Jan
- It’s not Christmas anymore. Damn.
However, I’m keenly accepting commissions, which I plan to write in between stacking logs, shovelling snow and finishing the last of the Quality Street.
Also here
I am in lots of other places on the web.
Words Dept. A blog of original writing containing assorted observations on the media, politics and other stuff.
My films are at Vimeo. My Tumblr site is my digital scrapbook and my Posterous site features thoughts on recent documentaries I've watched.
Follow me at Twitter and Friendfeed.
My collection of vintage Penguin books is also online!
