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 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.
Bob Crawley
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.
Zoë Francis-Cox
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
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.
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
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.
Kay Brown
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.
Jocelyne Royou
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
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.
Richard Berry
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.
Anaϊs Dimech
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
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.
Amy Nicholson
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.
Tom Smith
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.
Catherine Page
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.
Aisha Mason
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.
Jo Sindall
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.
Kirsty Kelly
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.
Vicky Moore
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.
James Houlder