Start
- 11.Jul
- Hello
This is the website of David Quinn – freelance writer, journalist and filmmaker based in Manchester.
As an award-winning journalist with almost a decade of experience on national titles including Estates Gazette, The Times and Building, I can help you with words of any sort, from news to features to web copy. I also make films, and can create and edit engaging video content to your specification.
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. Some examples of my film work are on my Vimeo site here.
Here’s a short film I made for Urbis:
Make your own time from David Quinn on Vimeo.
Portfolio
- 20.Feb
- Liverpool and Everton stadiums
Late kick-offs
Estates Gazette
20/2/2010
Extra time A victory for Everton and Liverpool remains elusive as both clubs see dreams of new stadiums stuck on the bench. By David Quinn
Even by the usually slow standards off complex regeneration projects, the development of new stadiums by Liverpool and Everton football clubs has been remarkably sluggish. And there are few concrete [...]- 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 [...]
Latest
- 19.Aug
- August and September: Insider and EG
My work for EG continues with forthcoming pieces on Manchester, West End offices and the European retail sector. Thoughts and comments to the usual place SVP. Also North West Business Insider have got me working on a piece about office fit-outs and refurbishments for their October issue (deadline 17 September), if you’re interested. Which, although you’d probably deny it, you must be if you’re reading this.
- 18.Jul
- A summer of EG-related fun
I’m writing two features for Estates Gazette this month, one on the rise and (possibly) fall of rail freight distribution and t’other on the leisure property market in Glasgow and Edinburgh (full Scotland synopsis here). If you have suitable observations with which to regale me, please deposit them about my person via a suitable virtual node. À bientôt.
- 08.Jul
- Regeneration & Renewal in July
I’m currently doing some news and features stuff for Regeneration and Renewal. Feel free to send news tips etc.
About me
After graduating from the University of Liverpool in 2000 I landed a job on weekly commercial property magazine Estates Gazette on the basis of an interview with Countdown host Richard Whiteley I’d done for the student newspaper. I decided to leave EG in summer 2009 to go freelance and to study for an 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.
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!
