Media and Creative Resume Writers — for Journalists, Comms, PR, Agency Creatives and Screen
Resumes for journalists and broadcasters, communications and corporate affairs leaders, PR consultants, in-house comms, advertising creatives (CDs, copywriters, art directors), graphic and digital designers, screen practitioners (writers, directors, producers, post), and performing arts professionals. Calibrated to bylines, masthead reputation, agency wins, awards (Walkley, AACTA, AWGIE, Cannes Lions, AGDA, PRIA), audience metrics, MEAA membership and the specific role and employer you're targeting. No AI. No offshore. No templates.
Media and creative is many disciplines that share a label. We write to your discipline.
A journalist's resume is structurally different from a creative director's, which is different again from an in-house corporate affairs leader, a screen producer, a graphic designer, or a PR account director. Bylines, agency wins, awards, audience metrics, MEAA membership and the recruitment audience all calibrate to the discipline. We write to your specific media or creative role.
Reporters, correspondents, editors, sub-editors
Print, digital and broadcast journalists across major mastheads (SMH, The Age, AFR, The Australian, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, Courier-Mail, Guardian Australia, Crikey, The Conversation), public broadcasters (ABC, SBS), and regional press. We write resumes that name mastheads, position bylines on signature stories, frame Press Gallery accreditation where applicable, and calibrate to the editor / EP audience that hires journalists. MEAA press card status positioned correctly.
Producers, presenters, EPs, news directors, podcast hosts
TV (Seven, Nine, Ten, ABC TV, SBS, Foxtel, streaming platforms) and radio (ABC, Triple J, KIIS, Triple M, Nova, ARN, SCA) — producers, segment producers, executive producers, news directors, presenters, reporters, radio hosts, podcast producers and podcast hosts. We frame ratings figures (OzTAM, GfK Radio survey) where appropriate, segment / show ownership, brand voice work, and the production credits that distinguish strong broadcast professionals.
Communications Managers, Heads of Comms, Comms Directors
In-house corporate communications and corporate affairs at ASX-listed corporates, government departments, super funds, banks, NFPs and statutory bodies. Communications Manager, Senior Communications Manager, Head of Communications, Communications Director, Group Head of Corporate Affairs, Chief Communications Officer (CCO). We write to ASX continuous disclosure literacy, investor relations interface, crisis comms response, internal/change comms, and ESG/sustainability comms framing.
Account managers, account directors, government relations, public affairs
PR consultancy account staff at Edelman, Hill+Knowlton, Ogilvy PR, Sefiani, Cato Salter, FleishmanHillard, Howorth, plus boutique consultancies. In-house government relations, public affairs, ESG comms, crisis comms specialists. We write to the consultancy account hierarchy (Account Executive → Senior Account Manager → Account Director → Group Account Director → Managing Director), agency win track record, and the campaign portfolio that PR hiring screens for.
Creative Directors, copywriters, art directors
Agency creatives at M&C Saatchi, Clemenger, BMF, Special Group, The Monkeys (Accenture Song), Ogilvy Australia, McCann, DDB, Saatchi & Saatchi, Howatson+Company, TBWA, plus independent and boutique agencies. Creative Director, Executive Creative Director, Group Creative Director, Senior Copywriter, Senior Art Director, Conceptual Creative. We frame agency wins, brand portfolio, award metal (Cannes Lions, AdFest, One Show, D&AD, AWARD), and the showreel/portfolio context that creative recruitment runs on.
Graphic designers, brand designers, UX/UI designers, design directors
Designers across graphic, brand, packaging, UX/UI, product, motion and editorial design. In-house design teams at corporates, agency design (Frost*, For The People, Re, Hulsbosch, There), digital product design at tech companies, and freelance/independent. We frame design portfolio context, AGDA awards (Australian Graphic Design Association), client roster, and the typographic/brand/product specialisation that distinguishes senior designers from generalists.
Directors, producers, screenwriters, post-production
Screen practitioners across film, TV drama, documentary, factual, commercial and digital — directors, producers, screenwriters, cinematographers, editors, post-production specialists. Australian production companies, ABC commissioning, SBS commissioning, Stan, Netflix Australia, streaming commissions, Screen Australia funded projects, state screen agency funded projects (Screen NSW, VicScreen, Screen Queensland). We frame production credits with role evidence, screen funding history, awards (AACTA, AWGIE, ASE), and the IMDb / production credit context.
Content strategists, social media managers, community managers
Digital content and social media professionals — content strategists, content writers, content marketing managers, social media managers, community managers, branded content producers, podcast hosts (commercial side), audience development specialists. We frame audience metrics (reach, engagement rate, follower growth, video view-through, listenership), platform-specific specialism (LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube), and the brand voice / brand portfolio depth that distinguishes strong content professionals.
Bylines, agency wins, awards, audience metrics — these aren't decorative.
Media and creative resumes live or die on credibility signals that generic resume writers regularly mishandle. The wrong placement of masthead, vague treatment of agency wins, an overstated award credit, or treatment of audience metrics as an afterthought reads as inexperience to the editors, ECDs, agency heads and CCOs hiring in this sector — even when the candidate is genuinely strong. Here's how we structure the four credibility layers media and creative recruiters actually scan for.
Mastheads, broadcasters & production credits named
For journalists: specific masthead worked at (SMH, The Age, AFR, The Australian, The Guardian, ABC, SBS), desk (business, politics, breaking news, features, investigations), Press Gallery accreditation status. For broadcast: production company / network, show name, role on the show, episode count. For screen: production credits with role (writer, director, producer, EP, line producer, post-production), production company, distributor / commissioner, awards. Generic "national newspaper" or "TV network" framing fails on first read.
Agency wins & brand portfolio
For agency creatives: brands worked on with role evidence (lead creative, support, art direction, copy), agency wins / pitches won, campaign award metal (Cannes Lions Gold/Silver/Bronze/Shortlist with year and category, AdFest, One Show, D&AD, AWARD). For PR account staff: account portfolio with sector, client tier, campaign awards (PRIA Golden Target). For designers: brand portfolio with the specific deliverable (logo, full identity, packaging, digital product). We frame brand portfolio honestly — without overclaiming role on award-winning work.
Awards positioned correctly
Walkley (journalism — Gold/Silver/category/finalist), AACTA (screen), AWGIE (screenwriting), Cannes Lions / AdFest / One Show / D&AD / AWARD (advertising creative), AGDA (graphic design), PRIA Golden Target (PR), ARIA (music), Helpmann / Green Room (performing arts), Logies (TV), MEAA awards. Awards need year, specific category, and result (winner / finalist / shortlist). Inflating "shortlisted" to "won" or naming awards inaccurately is one of the fastest ways to fail a creative interview.
Audience metrics & commercial outcomes
For digital and content roles: unique users, page views, time on site, engagement rate, follower growth (across specific platforms), video view-through, podcast downloads, newsletter subscribers and open rate. For broadcast: ratings (OzTAM TV survey, GfK Radio survey), audience reach, time-slot performance. For PR/comms: reach, share of voice, sentiment, message penetration. For marketing-adjacent creative: campaign performance attribution where defensible. We frame metrics that are actually measurable and yours to claim — without inflating attribution.
A newsroom CV isn't an agency CV isn't an in-house comms CV.
Media and creative professionals applying across newsrooms, creative and PR agencies, and in-house corporate / government communications all in the same week need structurally different resumes. Each environment screens for different evidence; the language register differs; the audience differs. We calibrate to your specific target.
Bylines/credits-led. Wins-anchored. Award-aware.
Newsrooms (newspapers, broadcasters, online publishers), creative agencies (M&C Saatchi, Clemenger, BMF, Special Group, The Monkeys, Ogilvy), PR consultancies (Edelman, Hill+Knowlton, Sefiani, Cato Salter, FleishmanHillard), production companies, and screen industry employers. Recruitment runs on bylines and production credits, agency wins, brand portfolio, awards, and the editor / EP / ECD / CD audience that hires in this sector.
ASX-disclosure-aware. Stakeholder-led. Selection-criteria-aligned.
In-house corporate communications and corporate affairs at ASX-listed corporates, super funds, banks, government departments (federal and state), statutory bodies, and NFPs. Senior in-house comms roles run on different mechanics than agency or newsroom — ASX continuous disclosure literacy, board and ELT interface, regulatory engagement, internal/change comms, ESG and sustainability comms. Government communications adds capability framework recruitment (APS Integrated Leadership System, state public sector capability frameworks).
A cadet journalist's CV isn't a Communications Director's.
Media and creative careers progress through structured stages — junior / cadet / graduate, mid-career, senior, lead / director, executive. The bylines, agency wins, audience metrics and audience for the resume all change at every layer. We calibrate to where you are and where you're going.
Cadet journalists, junior creatives, account executives, junior designers
Junior media and creative resumes have to compensate for limited paid experience with credible portfolio and learning-on-the-job evidence — university journalism / communications / design course, internships and vacation placements, student journalism / student creative work, freelance and self-published work, agency or newsroom intake program intake (e.g. cadet journalism programs at News Corp, Nine, ABC; agency graduate intake), and emerging professional credentials. We frame the early career narrative with appropriate ambition without overclaiming track record you don't yet have.
Reporters, Senior Account Managers, Senior Copywriters, mid-career designers, in-house Comms Manager
Mid-career media and creative resumes need to demonstrate that you've moved past supervised work to owning specific deliverables — bylined investigations, lead account management, lead creative on campaigns, signature design projects, owned editorial / commissioning briefs, segment / show ownership in broadcast, full campaign authorship in PR. We highlight the named bylines / credits / wins, the brand portfolio depth, the early supervision of juniors, and the emerging specialism that signals senior-track readiness.
Senior Reporters, Account Directors, Senior Creatives, Senior Communications Managers
Senior-level resumes have to demonstrate leverage — what you make possible across the team beyond what you produce yourself. We feature owned beats and rounds (journalism), owned client roster (PR/agency), brand portfolio leadership (creative), or strategic comms ownership (in-house). Award track record (Walkley, Cannes Lions, AACTA, PRIA Golden Target — winner and finalist), team leadership (direct reports, mentoring, hiring), and the strategic capability that signals lead / director-track readiness.
Editors, ECDs, Heads of Communications, GADs, News Directors
Lead and director-level resumes operate at a different register — editorial / creative / comms team leadership at scale, hiring authority, P&L responsibility (agency-side), strategic alignment with senior leadership, board / commissioning / ELT interface, and the cross-discipline range that distinguishes lead-level operators. We write Editor, ECD, Group Account Director, Head of Communications, News Director resumes calibrated to the executive-track audience these roles report into.
CCOs, Group Heads of Corporate Affairs, Editors-in-Chief, MDs, agency CEOs
Executive media and creative resumes operate at the C-suite register — Chief Communications Officer, Chief Marketing Officer (where comms is part of the remit), Group Head of Corporate Affairs, Editor-in-Chief, Managing Director (agency), CEO (agency), Head of Content (broadcaster). The discipline credibility still matters but the resume reads as a senior strategic document. We write executive media/creative resumes calibrated to ASX-listed CCO recruitment, executive search firms specialising in marketing and communications (Spencer Stuart, Heidrick & Struggles, Korn Ferry CMO/CCO practice), and the senior media industry leadership audience.
Editors, ECDs and CCOs read for named bylines, credits, wins and metrics.
The most common media and creative resume failure: role descriptions that list duties (managed media engagement, supported the comms team, delivered creative work) rather than named evidence (specific mastheads bylined at, specific brands wins, specific awards with category and result, specific audience metrics). Editors, ECDs, CCOs and senior recruiters read for what you actually produced and what changed because of it. Below, a before/after from a real (anonymised) Senior Communications Manager rewrite.
Senior Communications Manager · 2020 – Present
Responsible for managing the corporate communications function. Worked with leadership to deliver communications strategy. Managed media relationships and stakeholder engagement. Provided support during business-critical incidents. Mentored junior communications staff. Reported to the Group Head of Corporate Affairs.
Senior Communications Manager · Corporate Affairs & Investor Relations · ASX 200 financial services · Sydney · 2020 – Present
Role context: Senior corporate communications role within the Group Corporate Affairs function. Direct reporting to the Group Head of Corporate Affairs and dotted line to the CFO on financial communications. Owns external media engagement, ASX continuous disclosure communications, investor relations comms support, crisis comms response, and internal change communications. Direct interface with CEO, CFO, CHRO, Investor Relations, Legal, and external advisors.
Key outcomes:
- Led media response across 3 ASX-disclosed material incidents in past 24 months — including a class action filing, a regulatory investigation announcement, and an APRA prudential standards finding; share price impact contained within forecast bands across all three.
- Authored FY24 and HY24 results announcement and investor presentation deck — drafted within ASX continuous disclosure obligations; coordinated review with CFO, IR, external advisors and external counsel within 48-hour cycle.
- Led internal change comms for organisational restructure affecting 1,200 staff across 2 financial years — staff engagement scores recovered to pre-announcement baseline within 8 months of restructure announcement.
- 2 PRIA Golden Target Award shortlists (2023 for crisis communications response; 2024 for investor day campaign).
Senior business reporter transitioning from newsroom to ASX-listed corporate affairs.
Eight years as a business journalist — 4 years at The Age (Fairfax/Nine), 4 years at SMH business desk. Strong byline portfolio across financial services, ASX-listed corporates, and tech sector. MEAA press card holder. Wanted to move in-house — Senior Communications Manager (Corporate Affairs) at an ASX-listed corporate — a different career arc that values different evidence than newsroom recruitment.
The existing CV read like a strong newsroom journalist portfolio — masthead bylines, signature investigations, awards shortlists, sources cultivated. Strong but the wrong evidence for in-house corporate communications. ASX-listed Corporate Affairs hiring screens for ASX continuous disclosure literacy, board / ELT interface readiness, crisis communications response, internal/change comms, and the strategic comms leadership that distinguishes in-house communications from "writing about" companies. The journalism framing made the candidate look like a "reporter" rather than a "comms strategist."
Repositioned the same career around in-house-relevant evidence — newsroom understanding of ASX continuous disclosure reframed as transferable to in-house disclosure governance, deep editor and sub-editor relationships repositioned as inside understanding of how the media operates (a corporate affairs differentiator), source-cultivation work translated into the stakeholder relationship discipline that in-house comms requires, and the byline portfolio framed as evidence of writing capability under deadline pressure. Same career, in-house framing.
Three ASX-listed in-house Senior Communications Manager interviews within five weeks of resume delivery — across financial services, infrastructure and tech sectors. Accepted a Senior Communications Manager role at an ASX 200 financial services company at substantial uplift on the senior journalist base, with a clear path to Head of Communications. Reported the Group Head of Corporate Affairs interviewer "valued the inside-the-newsroom perspective" — the journalism-to-comms framing did the work the previous CV hadn't been able to.
APS comms framework. ABC/SBS. Ministerial briefings. We know the alphabet.
Senior government communications and public broadcaster roles increasingly require capability framework fluency alongside media credibility — particularly at EL2/SES federal, equivalent state levels, and ABC/SBS senior editorial appointments. Most resume writers gloss over this; we treat it as a discipline. Here are the four government and public-broadcaster comms layers we calibrate for.
APS classification framing
APS6 / EL1 / EL2 / SES classifications and the Integrated Leadership System (ILS) capability framework. Federal government communications recruitment runs on classification-anchored selection criteria — we frame your work in the classification framework Department of PM&C, AGD, individual departments and statutory bodies recruit against, with capability evidence appropriate to the level.
ABC & SBS recruitment
Public broadcaster recruitment runs on selection criteria with capability framework similarities to APS but distinct on editorial independence, charter alignment, and editorial standards (ABC Editorial Policies, SBS Codes of Practice). We write to the public broadcaster recruitment context — selection criteria responses, editorial track record, charter-aligned framing — for ABC News, ABC TV, ABC Radio, ABC Digital, SBS News, SBS Audio, NITV roles.
Selection criteria responses
Senior government comms roles ask for full STAR-format SC responses against the role's specific selection criteria. We write structured responses calibrated to APS Integrated Leadership System (federal) or state public sector capability frameworks (state) and the level being scored at. ABC / SBS selection criteria handled with editorial-context framing.
Ministerial & political comms
Ministerial offices, DPC, Cabinet Office, parliamentary press secretary and adviser roles, political party communications. These roles operate under different rules than departmental APS comms — political appointments, election-cycle dependencies, MOPS Act framework. We frame political comms experience appropriately while preserving non-partisan framing for candidates moving between parties or to APS departmental roles.
Two approaches. Same comms manager. Different outcomes.
Hannah Sullivan's career, written two ways. AI generates plausible-sounding communications content from a job title in seconds — and gets exposed at first-screen because ASX continuous disclosure literacy, named mastheads, agency context, crisis comms response evidence and award credits all stay generic. We extract what's actually defensible at CCO interview and ASX-listed corporate affairs panel, then write to senior comms recruiters who screen on specifics generic writers regularly miss.
Highly experienced and results-driven Senior Communications Manager with over 14 years in journalism, public relations and corporate communications. Proven track record of media engagement, stakeholder management and crisis communications. Skilled in strategic communications, stakeholder engagement and team leadership. Passionate about delivering exceptional communications outcomes.
Strategic Communications, Media Relations, Stakeholder Engagement, Crisis Communications, Internal Communications, Investor Relations, Content Strategy, Social Media, Brand Management, Team Leadership, Mentoring, Communication, Problem Solving, Project Management
Senior Communications Manager
- Managed corporate communications function and strategy.
- Worked with leadership to deliver communications outcomes.
- Managed media relationships and stakeholder engagement.
- Provided support during business-critical incidents.
- Reported to the Group Head of Corporate Affairs.
Account Director
- Managed account portfolio and client relationships.
- Delivered communications campaigns for clients.
Bachelor of Communications · University · Graduated 2010
MEAA Member, PRIA Member, Various awards
Media trends, communications strategy, mentoring, fitness, travel.
- ✗No ASX context. "Financial Services Company" without ASX 200 designation tells corporate affairs recruiters nothing about disclosure obligations or scale of the role.
- ✗Mastheads buried. The newsroom journalism background — a major credibility signal for in-house corporate comms — isn't visible in a 14-year career summary that only shows the most recent two roles.
- ✗Crisis comms generic. "Provided support during business-critical incidents" without naming material incident types, share price impact context or regulatory engagement — what CCOs actually screen on for senior corporate comms roles.
- ✗Awards unspecific. "Various awards" — not a credential. PRIA Golden Target, year, category and result are checkable; vagueness reads as inflation.
- ✗Generic competency dump. "Strategic Communications, Media Relations, Stakeholder Engagement" — these are baseline expectations for any senior comms manager. Reads as keyword harvesting.
A senior corporate communications professional with 14 years of cross-discipline experience — print and digital newsroom journalism (Fairfax, now Nine), top-tier corporate PR agency (Sefiani Communications), and in-house corporate affairs at an ASX 200 financial services company. Currently Senior Communications Manager (Corporate Affairs & Investor Relations) — direct reporting to the Group Head of Corporate Affairs and the CFO.
Targets Head of Corporate Affairs / Communications Director role at ASX-listed corporate, or executive-level government communications appointment. MEAA press card holder; PRIA member with 2 Golden Target Award shortlists.
Recognised for crisis communications response and ASX continuous disclosure capability — led media response across 3 ASX-disclosed material incidents in past 24 months with share price impact contained within forecast bands across all three.
Media Strategy: Owns the company's media engagement strategy across business journalism (AFR, The Australian, SMH, The Age), broadcast (Sky News, ABC, SBS) and trade press. Direct relationships with senior business journalists and editors across the major mastheads.
Investor & Financial Comms: ASX continuous disclosure governance — drafts and reviews market-sensitive announcements, FY/HY results announcements, AGM script and investor presentation deck. Direct interface with CFO, Investor Relations, and external advisors.
Crisis Comms & Issues: Crisis communications response lead. Led media response across 3 ASX-disclosed material incidents in past 24 months — including a class action filing, a regulatory investigation announcement, and an APRA prudential standards finding.
Internal & Change Comms: Authors all-staff comms from CEO and ELT; led internal change comms for a recent organisational restructure affecting 1,200 staff. Direct interface with CHRO and ELT change sponsors.
Newsroom & Agency Insight: Brings 7 years of business journalism (Fairfax/Nine) and 3 years of top-tier corporate PR agency experience — informs how newsrooms operate, what editors want, and how to position the company's narrative for both inbound and outbound media engagement.
Led media response across 3 ASX-disclosed material incidents in past 24 months — including class action filing, regulatory investigation, and APRA prudential standards finding; share price impact contained within forecast bands across all three.
Authored FY24 and HY24 results announcement and investor presentation — drafted within ASX continuous disclosure obligations; coordinated review with CFO, IR, external advisors and external counsel within 48-hour cycle.
Led internal change comms for organisational restructure affecting 1,200 staff across 2 financial years — staff engagement scores recovered to pre-announcement baseline within 8 months of restructure announcement.
2 PRIA Golden Target Award shortlists (2023, 2024) — for crisis communications response and investor day campaign.
Senior corporate communications role within the Group Corporate Affairs function. Direct reporting to the Group Head of Corporate Affairs and dotted line to the CFO on financial communications. Owns external media engagement, ASX continuous disclosure communications, investor relations comms support, crisis comms response, and internal change communications. Direct interface with CEO, CFO, CHRO, Investor Relations, Legal, and external advisors. Member of the Group's Disclosure Committee and Crisis Response Committee.
Own external media engagement strategy across business journalism (AFR, The Australian, SMH, The Age), broadcast (Sky News, ABC, SBS) and trade press.
Author and review market-sensitive ASX announcements, FY/HY results announcements, AGM script and investor presentation deck under continuous disclosure obligations.
Lead crisis communications response across material incidents — direct interface with Legal, Risk, IR, ELT and external advisors.
Author CEO and ELT all-staff communications; lead internal change comms for organisational change.
Mentor 2 Communications Advisors and 1 Communications Coordinator; manage the corporate affairs operating budget.
3 ASX-disclosed material incidents (24 months) — led media response across class action filing, regulatory investigation announcement, and APRA prudential standards finding; share price impact contained within forecast bands.
FY24 and HY24 results announcement and investor presentation — drafted within ASX continuous disclosure obligations; 48-hour review cycle with CFO, IR, external advisors and counsel.
Organisational restructure internal comms (1,200 staff) — staff engagement scores recovered to pre-announcement baseline within 8 months.
2 PRIA Golden Target Award shortlists (2023 crisis comms response; 2024 investor day campaign).
- ✓ASX 200 context immediate. CCO and Group Head of Corporate Affairs interviewers see the disclosure-aware context before reading any other content.
- ✓Newsroom + agency + in-house range explicit. Mastheads named (SMH, The Age, AFR), agency named (Sefiani), in-house ASX 200 context — the cross-discipline range that distinguishes senior corporate comms candidates.
- ✓Crisis comms specific. Class action filing, regulatory investigation, APRA prudential finding — what corporate affairs recruiters actually screen on.
- ✓PRIA shortlists with year/category. 2023 crisis comms response and 2024 investor day campaign — checkable, specific, defensible at interview.
- ✓Responsibilities separate from achievements. Panels see what was owned across the role and what was delivered above baseline — not a duty list dressed up as accomplishments.
Media and creative resume questions, answered.
Common questions from journalists, broadcast professionals, comms and PR specialists, agency creatives, designers, screen practitioners and digital content professionals working with us.
I'm transitioning from journalism to in-house corporate communications. Can you reposition my resume?
I'm a creative — how does the resume work alongside my portfolio / showreel?
Can you write APS Selection Criteria responses for senior government communications roles?
How do you handle awards on creative and journalism resumes?
I'm a screenwriter / director / producer. How do you handle production credits?
I work in PR. Can you reposition for an in-house Corporate Affairs role?
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