Start
- 11.Jul
- Hello
This is the website of David Quinn – freelance journalist and filmmaker based in Manchester.I’m an award-winning print and video journalist with almost a decade of experience on national titles. I am also an Royal Television Society Awards-nominated documentary filmmaker. Alongside my journalism work, I create engaging video content and corporate documentary.
I’ve worked for the BBC, The Times, The Independent, Estates Gazette and Regeneration and Renewal, among others. My 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. Some examples of my film work are on my Vimeo site here.
Here’s my 100-second showreel and video business card:
100 seconds (Showreel) from David Quinn on Vimeo.
Portfolio
- 12.May
- Video: Inside the BBC’s new MediaCity offices in Salford
I was asked by Estates Gazette to make a video looking at the BBC’s new offices at MediaCity in Salford, featuring an interview with the broadcaster’s portfolio director Alan Bainbridge. This was filmed in May 2011, just a few days before the first of the BBC’s 2,300 staff moved in. You can see it on [...]
- 14.Mar
- Print: EG Occupiers feature
This Mad Men-inspired piece appeared in Estates Gazette in March.
“To watch an episode of the hit US TV series Mad Men is to get a sense of how offices, as much as the staff who occupy them, have changed since the 1960s. Advertising executive Don Draper and his colleagues, including Joan Holloway, operate in a world [...]- 07.Jan
- Print: British Land powers up in Luton
My story about Luton appeared as the main front-page news story in Estates Gazette on 8 January 2010. To read it, click the title above, then click on the image to enlarge.
Latest
- 21.Jun
- June 2011
I’m currently working on a load of video projects for media and commercial clients including Estates Gazette, as well as a short documentary about Ancoats, art and cultural regeneration. I’m also writing two features for the August issue of North West Business Insider, on the subjects of social housing and planning. Details can be found here and also, somewhat miraculously, here.
- 12.Feb
- Top 100 journalists on Twitter
I’ve made a list of the top 100 journalists on Twitter, assembled by the PR company 10 Yetis. It appears to be based on submissions from PRs saying which journalists are the least painful to deal with and I’m at 45, which is lovely. As far as I can work out the only North West journalists on the nationwide list are Gordon Burns off of North West Tonight and some bloke called Simon Binns.
- 12.Feb
- February 2011
I’m going to be spending the majority of this month working at the BBC on Inside Out North West. I’m also doing some freelance features for North West Business Insider and Estates Gazette.
About me
I got my first job in journalism on weekly commercial property magazine Estates Gazette in 2000, largely on the basis of an interview with Countdown host Richard Whiteley I’d done for the student newspaper. I decided to quit in summer 2009 to go freelance and to do an MA in documentary filmmaking at the University of Salford, which I completed in 2010. My major project, a documentary called The Candidate, was nominated for a Royal Television Society award. Since then I've written for a number of publications and have worked on projects for the BBC. I have a wide range of interests including design, film, electronic music and football and I’ve written for my own blogs since 2006.
I am in lots of other places on the web:
Words Dept. A blog of original writing containing assorted opinions on the media, politics and other stuff.
My films are at Vimeo. All my other web nodes can be found here.
Follow me at Twitter and Friendfeed.
My collection of vintage Penguin books is also online!
