About Archant Dialogue
Our people are our greatest asset. The down-to-earth culture combined with our proactive and innovative nature makes us simply easier to work with. We have an extremely talented in-house team and network of specialists that help us develop powerful communications.
As part of the Archant Group, one of the UK's largest independent media groups, we also have unique access to cross-promotion opportunities and have tremendous supplier purchasing power. Our great commercial strength also helps us generate more than £1m of advertising for our clients every year.
Archant Group comprises Archant Regional, the newspaper publishing arm which has a portfolio of four daily titles, 26 weekly paid-for, 34 free newspapers and 180 websites; Archant Life, which publishes almost 50 city and county lifestyle titles across England; and Archant Specialist, that produces 20 multi-media consumer titles and associated events.
Mick Hurrell
Managing Director
Mick is an international award-winning publisher, working with leading national and international membership, B2B and B2C clients at leading multimedia customer publishing agencies. Mick’s broad experience across print, digital and multi-language projects makes him ideally suited to lead Dialogue’s development, as we continue to broaden and deepen our integrated services
Mick Hurrell
Zoë Francis-Cox
Editorial Director
Zoë joined Archant Dialogue in 1999 and heads up the editorial team. She has extensive experience in all aspects of publishing and marketing communications, including print, digital and audio visual production. While overseeing the editorial direction of all of Dialogue's publications, she drives the strategic development of existing and new clients' integrated communications.
Zoë Francis-Cox
Samantha Overton
Advertising Sales Director
Samantha Overton, Advertising Sales Director, 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 heads up a department that makes a significant contribution to the business.
Samantha Overton
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.
Chris Rainer
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.
Nick Paul
Adam Browning
Assistant Editor
Adam graduated with a BA (Hons) in Journalism and Editorial Design in 2004. After accruing a number of years experience working in editorial roles he decided to broaden his horizons and moved to the bright lights of Tokyo. Returning to the UK, Adam joined Dialogue in 2010 and works as Editorial Assistant for HOG magazine.
Adam Browning
Richard Berry
Senior 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.
Richard Berry
Kay Brown
Managing Ad Production Controller
Kay joined Dialogue in March 2001, she manages Advertising Production, providing a high standard of creativity and professionalism. Whatever the requirements, whether it’s for a full-page advert or an eighth of a page, a corporate identity or even some editorial content advice, Kay can deliver a result that can really add value to your business.
Kay Brown
Abigail Burroughes
Designer
After Graduating from Norwich University College of the Arts with a BA(Hons) in Graphic Design, Abi started at Archant Dialogue full time early in 2011. She currently works on Skydive The Mag, British Eventing, On Business, InSite, Make the Grade and Matters Arising magazines.
Abigail Burroughes
Rob Crane
Advertising Sales Executive
Rob works across all of Dialogue's outdoor titles. His background is in newspapers and specialist magazines and he has worked in the media industry for almost nine years. He has been part of the Archant Dialogue team since 2009 and has enjoyed every second so far!
Rob Crane
Catherine Goad
Senior Account Manager
Catherine joined Archant Dialogue in 2011 and has extensive experience in the print industry, working with clients such as Virgin and Mercedes-Benz. Catherine has exceptional planning and organisational skills and has a history of building and maintaining excellent client relationships, managing projects from initiation to completion ensuring regular communication at every stage.
Catherine Goad
Andy Grant
Advertising Sales Executive
Andy works on all Archant Dialogue's motoring titles, including HOG, BMF Rider and Porsche Post. His media background has been in specialist motoring magazine and media and he has worked in advertising for 13 years. Andy has been part of the Archant Dialogue team since 2008 and enjoys the challenges that the company brings.
Andy Grant
James Houlder
Commercial Manager
James joined us in 2008 after gaining a wealth of top relationship and account management skills with his previous employers, Bauer and RBS. James now manages a growing team as well as a portfolio of clients ranging from British Eventing to the Countryside Alliance. James plays a vital role in business development and client diversification.
James Houlder
Lynda Lee
Advertising Sales Executive
Lynda joined Dialogue in June 2010 bringing with her 15 years of advertising sales experience after working for major publishing houses in London, Kent and Norwich. With knowledge of the leisure and food markets Lynda has worked on magazines, directories and exhibition guides. “You need to know your client and understand their business to ensure their advertising works.” is her prophecy.
Lynda Lee
Claire Leibrick
Art Editor
Claire graduated from the Norwich School of Art and Design with a 2:1 BA (Hons) in Graphic Design in 2008, she started working for Archant Dialogue in August 2008. Claire designs Improvement, Matters Arising, Report, British Eventing, Update, Whiskeria, and Army Cadet.
Claire Leibrick
Shakiba McCormick
Advertising Production Controller
Shakiba joined the Archant group back in 2004 and was working within the editorial department. She became part of the Dialogue team early in 2010 as Production Controller across all titles. Shakiba's role includes providing a first class advert design service, and to ensure all artwork is delivered on time and in the correct format ready for print.
Shakiba McCormick
Stuart Meadows
Senior Account Manager
Stuart joined Dialogue in November 2009 and is responsible for liaising with our clients to ensure the smooth operation of our production processes. Stuart brings a wealth of client service and project management experience within the publishing sector. Stuart ensures that channels of communication between Archant Dialogue and its clients are kept as open and thorough as possible, and ensures all stages of the production schedule are adhered to accurately.
Stuart Meadows
Vicky Moore
Senior Advertising Sales Executive
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.
Vicky Moore
Amy Nicholson
Group Editor
Since joining Dialogue's Editorial department as a freelancer in January 2006, Amy became a full-time employee in that September, and is today responsible for a stable of titles including two magazines produced on behalf of Center Parcs, plus Whiskeria, Motorcycle Rider, Yorkshire's Own Kitchen and online and print content for H.O.G. She contributes content to many of our other titles too.
Amy Nicholson
Catherine Page
Managing 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 Report, New2Teaching, inSite, Make the Grade and HEART of ENGLAND fine foods’ Regional Food Guide. Her role also includes sub-editing and proof-reading various other Dialogue publications.
Catherine Page
Lisa Parkinson
Advertising Sales Executive
Lisa joined the Dialogue team in July 2009 after four years of direct sales and account management in London. She has worked for JCDecaux and Informa and her experience with a range of clients has given her the ability to understand and adapt to needs of the various titles she works on. These include all of our education titles, as well as EP Magazine and Seafarer. Lisa's consultative style means she will always deliver what her clients need.
Lisa Parkinson
Nicola Preston
Designer
Nicola joined the Dialogue team in 2010, having previously worked in London at Emap, working within B2B publishing. Her design career began in 2007 when she graduated from Bath School of Art and Design with a BA (Hons) degree in Graphic Design. Nicola is enjoying the leap into contract publishing and predominantly works on the monthly title Porsche Post for Porsche Club GB.
Nicola Preston
Jo Sindall
Managing Editor
Having returned home from Australia after four years, Jo joined Dialogue in 2008. 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. Jo now edits On Business, British Eventing and EP.
Jo Sindall
Tom Smith
Digital Editor
Tom has been with Dialogue since 2005. He has a BA (Hons) in Media Production and works on a variety of digital projects including HOG eMagazine, HOG Europe Gallery, Océ and British Eventing eNewsletter. He also manages all online publications.
Tom Smith
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.
Phil Sumner
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.
Nicky Wright