Stewart Kirkpatrick is one of the UK’s leading digital content experts with a proven track record of:

• Empowering content: making words, pictures, audio and video work hard for you
• Social media without the bullshit: making practical use of digital networks to deliver real-world value
• Practical digital training: equipping you with straightforward skills to unlock the power of the internet

He is the award-winning Editor of the innovative Caledonian Mercury. Since launch in January 2010, it has generated more than 2.8m page views, came second in the Newspaper Awards and won “Multimedia Publisher of the Year” in the 2010 Regional Press Awards. A member of the international committee of the Online News Association, he was named as one of “the top 50 people shaping online journalism” by UK Press Gazette. He was editor of the multi-award-winning scotsman.com from 2000 to 2007. In that time traffic increased ten-fold to 4 million unique users a month. The site became one of Google News’s top 30 worldwide news sources and was identified by Media Week as the sixth biggest news site in the UK.

He has worked as a consultant for the Scottish Government, STV.tv, The Times, Scottish Water andmany others. Stewart also provides training through the National Union of Journalists, lectures in online journalism at Edinburgh Napier University and regularly speaks at industry conferences.

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