Emma Oliver

Content Director

Emma has 15+ years of experience in news management and industry digital media leadership. She has worked in comms agencies and spent more than a decade teaching two of the UK's leading university journalism programmes.

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Industry experience

Senior journalism lecturer, Sheffield University
Senior journalism lecturer, University of Derby
News Editor, Newcastle Chronicle and Journal
Reporter, The Sentinel
Reporter, Mansfield CHAD

Professional qualifications

MA Journalism, University of Derby
Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education, University of Derby
Diploma in Journalism, National Council for the Training of Journalists
BA (Hons) Communications, Sheffield Hallam University

Biography

Emma is Content Director at 1284 Communications. She has an MA in Journalism, a BA in Communications Studies and more than 15 years' experience as a journalist. Emma previously served as Senior Journalism Lecturer at the Universities of Sheffield and Derby. Prior to that she was News Editor at the Chronicle and Journal newspapers in Newcastle. Emma is interested in sport, particularly British basketball, and leads comms for Leicester Riders and Loughborough Riders. She volunteers with Leicester Dynamite junior basketball club.