// About

Margaret tries not to take life too seriously. This is probably a weird reaction to working in serious industries – financial journalism and Wall St. – most of her life. To keep from laughing out loud to herself she has exorcised her humour demons by presenting a quirky “Telling it like it is” business show for Newstalk during the bailout period, writing off-beat business columns for the Irish Times (Platform, Cents and Nonsense) and the Irish Marketing Journal, tweeting odd thoughts and deep insights on twitter (@margareteward) and working for almost one-eighth of her life as Money Editor for the Sunday Times. She’s also a sometime lecturer in financial journalism at Independent Colleges.

Margaret also likes to talk. A lot. A few radio and TV programmes kindly let her blab to the nation. Her husband is so thankful that his ears get a break. She regularly contributes to TV3′s Tonight with Vincent Browne, RTE’s History Show, Saturday View, Frontline and Newstalk’s Breakfast, the BBC (UK and NI) and National Public Radio (USA). Sometimes she also gets to “play pretend” as an American voiceover artist for television and radio.

The day job? Managing director of Clear Ink, the Clear English Specialists www.clearink.ie. Mags is proud to work with the best in the business – newspaper journalists, marketing copywriters, “brand voice” experts, sub-editors, broadcasters and new media specialists – to deliver quality marketing communications, brand voice strategies and materials, corporate editorial content and training courses for clients.

Her previous media and communications experience includes:

RTE, “Savvy Saver” money contributor on Tubridy at 2FM
Contributor to numerous programmes on RTE, TV3, BBC and NPR
Newstalk, Breakfast Business presenter
The Irish Times, business columnist
The Irish Marketing Journal, columnist
The Sunday Times, Ireland, money editor
The Sunday Business Post, freelance, covered 9/11 from New York
The Irish Times,  personal finance columnist and business reporter
The Irish Times, news and features writer
Lehman Brothers, NYC, marketing and multimedia writer
Gannett Newspapers, NY, reporter
Prodigy Internet Services, NY, editorial assistant

Awards:
Law Society of Ireland’s Justice Media Award, social and campaigning journalism
ICL Award, science and technology journalism

Books:
Saving and investing for Life, 2012, 2011 (first edition in 2010)
Bob Marley, Longmeadow Press/ Bison Books 1992
(Translated into several languages)
Every Blade of Grass (unpublished)

Other stuff:
“Women on Air” training and seminar series, founder
Journalist.ie, founder
“The List” of female contributors for radio/tv producers, founder
MediaThink investigative journalism network,  co-founder with Gavin Sheridan

Control freak warning: the comments published on this site are up to me so they’d better be amusing or constructive. That said, I do like a good debate so feel free to disagree with anything I write.

 

 

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