Alannah Eames

Facts

NATIONALITY:

Irish

BASED:

Europe

FAVORITE PLACES:

South Africa, Malta, Costa Rica, Åland Islands

FAVORITE TRIP:

Staying at Tubu Tree Camp in the Okavango Delta, Botswana

WHAT DRIVES ME

Learning new things, mixing with different cultures, seeing new places, getting results

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About Alannah Eames

I have an honors degree in Law and French from University College Galway in Ireland where I studied media, criminal, European and contract law.

Law is a fascinating subject but a career pouring over legal books in my home country wasn’t for me. After graduating, I spent a year traveling in Europe before coming back to Ireland and joining the sales and marketing department of the Jurys-Doyle Hotel Group, one of Ireland’s leading hotel chain, and the Scottish Stakis Hotel Group which later became part of the Hilton chain.

In 1999, I joined the Media Plus media agency in Belgium as an international journalist. For six years I compiled country reports which were published in leading international newspapers like the New York Daily News, New York Observer, New York Post, New York Newsday and Die Zeit and produced TV documentaries for CNBC Europe and Fox 5 TV. I worked in over 20 countries across the globe stretching from South Africa to Iceland and from Kazakhstan to Trinidad & Tobago, interviewing prime ministers, leading politicians, CEOs of Fortune 500 companies and gathering a wealth of information about international business and different cultures. My work took me everywhere from vodka-drinking sessions with tobacco companies in Armenia and a visit to the Toblerone factory in Switzerland to climbing down gold-mine shafts in Johannesburg and touring fish farms in the Norwegian fjords giving me an invaluable insight into different industries and business cultures.

In 2005 I took a Diploma in Internet Journalism at the London School of Journalism and set up my own freelance journalism and editing business. Today, I specialize in business and travel journalism, editing and project management for print, online and television media. I cover just about everything from wind energy, corporate strategy, shipping and finance to safari features and restaurant reviews. 

“The mind’s like a parachute. It works best when it’s open” is my favorite motto and I like to keep my mind alert by interviewing interesting people, exploring new industries, mingling with different cultures and traveling. Variety is the spice of life! Find out more under “Services” and “Portfolio”.

Services

Writing

Travel and business features, interviews, copywriting, news, books, blogs

Editing

Copy editing in InDesign for print and online media

TV and video projects

Production, live interviews, project management and voice-overs

Internal and external communications

Press releases, presentations, CEO letters, internal newsletters, customer magazines

Live conference coverage

Daily reports, magazine production, web TV

Contact

Email: info@alannaheames.com

E-mail me!

Blog

Gallery

Portfolio

References

“As a course participant, Alannah has shown commitment and focus. She has an all around appreciation of the web and its place in communications. She is ambitious and I would expect her to succeed in any new venture she undertakes”

Krys Wareing

Tutor, London School of Journalism

Work Samples

References

“I wanted to thank you for the time you spent with us talking about Adecco Group’s strategic initiatives internationally to meet the exciting challenges ahead of us. We all felt it was a very interesting discussion and sincerely hope that we have given you something you can use in the near future to provide general interest to your audience”.

Jerome Caille

Former CEO Adecco Group

“As a course participant, Alannah has shown commitment and focus. She has an all around appreciation of the web and its place in communications. She is ambitious and I would expect her to succeed in any new venture she undertakes”

Krys Wareing

Tutor, London School of Journalism

“Alannah was Editor-in-Chief of the Biotech Forum News, the visitor paper which is distributed at our annual Biotech Forum + Scanlab conference. She is very dedicated and puts a lot of effort into ensuring that the paper is full of interesting interviews and features as well as providing correct information to the visitors. The editorial content and quality of the paper improved tremendously since she took over as editor.”

Kim Lindhe

Event Manager, Stockholm International Fairs

”Alannah interviewed me during the research and production stage of a special TV documentary on Sweden. She was easy to talk to and had a great amount of knowledge in her head, she had thoroughly done her homework on Swedish business. Since then, she has done a good job of keeping in touch and keeping her network updated. I wish her well in the future!”

Peter Yngwe

CEO Svensk Exportkredit AB

“Alannah started work at Biotech Sweden in 2005 and quickly proved herself a strong member of the team. Within months she was able to take charge of all our international English-language publications organizing the projects, writing and editing all the content and ensuring that the magazines went to print successfully. When I was promoted within the IDG group, I appointed Alannah as my successor as interim Editor-in-chief of Biotech Sweden and its sister publications until we were able to recruit a Swedish-speaking Editor-in-chief for the magazine.
Alannah is hard working, enthusiastic, dedicated, creative, a good team-leader and an asset to any magazine or media house.”

Fredrik Bernsel

Business Unit Director, IDG.se Online

“Alannah first met our CEO at Handelsbanken, who agreed that Handelsbanken would be a co-sponsor of the program on Sweden. I then became involved in the production process. It was very easy to work with Alannah because she is very professional and puts a great emphasis on quality in her work. I am especially impressed how Alannah, previously unknown in Sweden, managed to quickly open doors to Sweden’s leading CEOs and companies, convincing them to participate in her TV program.”

Lars Lindmark

Former Head of Corporate Communications & Information, Handelsbanken AB

“As an international journalist, Alannah interviewed CEOs of multinational companies all over the world. She completed successful projects in different international environments in Western Europe, Scandinavia, Africa and the CIS region. She also sold advertising sponsorship and consistently brought in high sales figures. She has definite leadership skills, demonstrated throughout her projects, working with strict targets and deadlines and taking charge to ensure that her projects were profitable.”

Mathieu Cuypers

CEO Media Plus Agency

“Alannah was recommended to me as a fast and excellent writer. I threw her in the deep end directly by giving her a reporting assignment on the subject of purchasing – with the added complication of writing for an audience that does not have English as a first language. Boy, did she deliver!

Since 2005, she had been assisting me in as reporter, news editor and copy editor for Efficient Purchasing magazine. The very real success of the magazine among the European purchasing community is in no small part due to her lively reporting and well-developed sense of what will catch the interest of a no-nonsense business audience.”

Johan Beer

Editor-in-chief, Efficient Purchasing

“Alannah Eames worked as a department editor, copy editor and Stockholm City Guide writer at Scanorama and fulfilled her duties to our utmost satisfaction. Alannah is a very talented editor – she’s fast, careful and accurate. Among her professional talents I would like to emphasize a broad knowledge of contemporary life and events, in particular science, research and development. In addition to that, she is also a good companion and expresses a fine sense of humor. (And she has a cute way of sneezing!!)”

Thomas Sjöberg

Senior Editor, Scanorama (Scandinavian Airlines inflight magazine)

“For the past six years, Alannah has been contributing to internal and customer magazines for our corporate clients including Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics, Volvo, Intrum Justitia, Episerver, Vattenfall and Spring Mobile. She is a versatile, flexible and creative business journalist who has a great business network in the Nordic region and an indepth understanding of international business matters. She is never afraid to embrace a new challenge.”

Christofer Fager, MD Stockholm office

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