Duties

• Design all adverts and prepare a proof for client to sign.
• Design page layouts and typesetting ready for printing co-ordinating with editor to ensure space. Both in Adobe PageMaker and CorelDraw.
• Editing of older adverts and converting to newer digital format, as Inside Otago was the first newspaper in the region to go fully digital.
• Producing newsletters, eNews, booklets, price lists, flyers in CorelDraw.
• Working with both CMYK and RGB images, manipulation of images to produce require advert idea.
• Formatting of files and converting to PDF ready for pre-press and printing.
• Build, design and maintain company website, having the stories and articles online (again one of the first newspapers to do this) in a similar layout to the printed newspaper.
• Answering phones and customer liaison, email queries and quotes.
• Aspects of business investigation and marketing & problem solving.