CURRICULUM VITAE
ARTHUR MACDONALD
Contact details
Tel 0131-78182860663
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SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
I have broad experience of working on newspapers at both local and national levels including daily, evening and national publications largely specializing in business and financial journalism. I spent almost five years as head of press and public relations at Dundee District Council and a year in commercial public relations in Dubai with Action Dubai.
I returned to the UK at the beginning of April.
September 2007 to October 2013
Business Editor Gulf Daily News in Bahrain
September 2006 to August 2007
Business Editor Bahrain Tribune
May 2004 to June 2006
Editorial Director MSC Action public relations company in Dubai .
January 2003 to May 2004
Business Editor Khaleej Times in Dubai.
February 2000 to January 2003
Senior business reporter on the Press and Journal
newspaper in Aberdeen, Scotland .
1997 to 2000
Freelance working
Editor of Business View magazine in Dundee, which
circulated throughout the North-east,
Part time lecturer in journalism at Dundee
College
1996 to 1997
Editor of the Inverurie Herald in Aberdeenshire
(local weekly)
1991 to 1995
Head of press and public relations for Dundee
District Council.
1979 to 1991
Senior business reporter on The Scotsman
newspaper in Edinburgh, at the time the premier
business newspaper in Scotland
1977 to 1979
Industrial reporter on the Peterborough Evening
Telegraph
1975 to 1977
News reporter on the Alloa Advertiser in
Scotland
EDUCATION
University of Dundee 1969 - 1973
MA Political Science and Modern History.
Alan Glens' School, Glasgow 1963 - 1969
Higher Grades in English, Mathematics, Geography,
Physics and Chemistry