About Archant Dialogue

Archant Dialogue has an extremely experienced in-house team covering all aspects of customer and business magazine publishing.

As part of the £195m Archant Group, the UK's leading independent publisher, we are also able to call upon numerous resources from around the wider Archant publishing group for expertise in print, distribution and marketing.

Archant's newsstand magazine division publishes almost 100 newsstand magazines, including more than 21 county titles such as Berkshire Life, Cheshire Life and Cotswold Life. Specialist magazine titles include Photography Monthly, Pilot, Sporting Shooter, The English Garden, The English Home, So British and Sport Diver. The group also publishes 90 daily and weekly newspapers.

Bob Crawley, Managing Director

Bob Crawley

Managing Director

Bob has almost 30 years experience working across many areas of the media working as a journalist in regional press through to national press, television and radio. He has also set up a number of award winning web sites. For the past seven years, he published a number of leading consumer magazines before joining Archant Dialogue as Managing Director in September 2006.

Zoë Francis-Cox, Editorial Director

Zoë Francis-Cox

Editorial Director

Zoë joined Archant Dialogue in 2000 and now heads up the editorial team as Editorial Director. She has extensive experience in feature idea research, sub-editing, proof-reading, writing and managing the production process of all Dialogue's publications.

Nick Paul, Art Director

Nick Paul

Art Director

Trained at the Royal College of Art in London, Nick escaped from a publishing career in London (IPC, Haymarket, VNU, BBC...) to become Art Director at Dialogue. Nick manages the design team and oversees all projects ensuring that they exceed our clients' expectations.

Samantha Overton, Advertising Manager

Samantha Overton

Advertising Manager

Samantha Overton, Advertising Sales Manager, joined Dialogue in February 2000 and has sold advertising across all of our titles that carry it. Her clients include many blue-chip companies and the top advertising agencies in the country. She has consistently performed to target and now manages a department that makes a significant contribution to the business.

Chris Rainer, Client Services Director

Chris Rainer

Client Services Director

Chris' background is in advertising where he worked in London and New York for leading advertising agencies such as Grey and Saatchi/KHBB. For the past seven years he has been at Archant Dialogue and throughout that time has built extremely close relationships with key clients helping them build their customer magazines into powerful brand communication tools. He is highly regarded throughout the industry.

Kay Brown, Managing Ad Production Controller

Kay Brown

Managing Ad Production Controller

Kay joined Dialogue in March 2001 as Advertising Production Controller. She manages all advertising make-up, design and production. Kay has more than 20 years experience in the design industry.

Jocelyne Royou, Financial Controller

Jocelyne Royou

Financial Controller

Jocelyne is a chartered accountant with years of experience gained in a variety  of business sectors. She joined Archant Dialogue in August 2005.

Nicky Wright, Managing Art Editor

Nicky Wright

Managing Art Editor

Nicky has been with Archant Dialogue since 1998. A very talented  designer, Nicky is extremely efficient and organised and is well-suited to the important role of Managing Art Editor. Nicky has a BA in graphic design from Hull University and has worked for top UK book publisher Dorling Kindersley.

Richard Berry , Art Editor

Richard Berry

Art Editor

Richard joined Archant Dialogue after graduating with a BA (Hons) in publishing design from the Norwich School of Art in 2003. He predominantly works on Harley-Davidson and produces their quarterly HOG magazine, which goes out across Europe, the Middle East and Africa in eight languages – as well as a stand alone Canadian edition.

Anaϊs Dimech, Designer

Anaϊs Dimech

Designer

Anaïs is a recent graduate from the Norwich School of Art and Design Graphic Design for Publishing course and has experience in a variety of areas of design, specialising in editorial and magazines. She joined the company in January 2007 and is enjoying working and putting her skills to good use.

Phil Sumner, Web Developer

Phil Sumner

Web Developer

Phil joined us in 2009, he has over 14 years experience in web development. Having spent several years working for a top 100 NMA agency, where he worked on several major clients including Fujifilm UK, Kettle Foods, and Jordans. He now develops work for Harley Davidson, Océ and British Parachuting Association.

Amy Nicholson , Managing Editor

Amy Nicholson

Managing Editor

Amy began working freelance in Dialogue's editorial department in January 2006 while studying for an MA. Following the successful completion of this degree she joined full-time in September and has since worked on a wide range of publications, chiefly Craegmoor Life and Village Life.

Tom Smith , Editor

Tom Smith

Editor

Tom has been with Dialogue for more than four years. He has a BA (Hons) in Media Production and works on a variety of titles that Dialogue publish. Tom's main responsibilities are for the editorial and production of the Harley-Davidson UK ezine and the UK HOG eNews.

Catherine Page, Editor

Catherine Page

Editor

Catherine joined Archant Dialogue in the summer of 2005. She has a first-class degree with honours in English and works on a number of titles, namely Improving Your Home, Report, and ELA News. Her role also includes sub-editing and proof-reading various other Dialogue publications.

Aisha Mason, Editor

Aisha Mason

Editor

Aisha completed her Journalism BA (Hons) degree in June 2006 and spent six months working in Australia before joining Archant Dialogue in 2007. Aisha works on Royal Ascot Magazine, Matters Arising, Improvement , Update and Thames Guardian.

Jo Sindall, Editor

Jo Sindall

Editor

Having returned home from Australia after four years, Jo is a new addition to Archant Dialogue. After completing an MA in Journalism at the University of Wollongong, Australia. She went on to work for Wolseley Media publishing house, based in north Sydney, working across a range of publications, including Inside Sport Magazine and Golf Australia.

Kirsty Kelly, Assistant Editor

Kirsty Kelly

Assistant Editor

Kirsty began freelancing for Archant Dialogue during the final year of her English and Creative Writing degree. Employed full-time since 2009, she has helped out with the sub-editing and proof-reading of Archant Dialogue’s various magazine titles. She now works on the British Parachuting Association’s Skydive magazine, British Eventing and Océ Dialogue.

Vicky Moore, Senior Advertising Sales

Vicky Moore

Senior Advertising Sales

Vicky joined Archant in 2001 on the regional newspaper advertising team specialising in business to business and agriculture. Following a successful six years with an award winning team she transferred to Dialogue in January 2008 bringing her wealth of experience and knowledge to us.

James Houlder, Advertising Sales

James Houlder

Advertising Sales

James joined us in Sept 2008 having previously worked for Bauer (prv. Emap) and the Royal Bank of Scotland, bringing with him a wealth of top relationship and account management skills. His current advertising sales performance is first class and he does the most excellent job representing both Archant and our clients.

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