 Jonathan Rush has written, edited and ghost-written articles for print and web magazines, newsletters, and drafted annual reports, brochures and case documents for consumer advocacy campaigns and government submissions. He has run a speaker platform programme for a major multinational.
Jonathan is a co-founder and part-time editor of web magazine, ContingencyToday.com and its print supplement, CT Review. Like all of its team, he works remotely, using a CMS to upload and edit articles, images and news. Jonathan is not an industry specialist. He has worked in the financial services, food & drink, house building and property development, legal, regulatory affairs, energy, water treatment sectors. He is adept at making complex, technical subjects easier to read and more interesting to the non-expert. Examples of his work under his or clients' bylines include: Back in Fashion for client Graphic Data Corporation which appeared in Young Lawyer.
He was commissioned by US-based magazine WaterWorld to cover the opening of Europe's largest wastewater treatment plant by France's new deputy prime minister: His article, Heathrow: Time to Get Smarter and Faster in, ContingencyToday.com, attracted so much interest from the aviation industry that pilots' trade union, BALPA, reprinted it in the October 2007 issue of its magazine The Log. A rare occurence for an industry outsider. For geographic information systems company, Pitney Bowes MapInfo, he wrote Speeding
Up Ambulance Times, which appeared in various trade magazines as well as ContingencyToday.com
For charity, The Galapagos Conservation Trust, he project managed the migration and assisted in the design of its new website
and continued to edit it and the charity's Facebook. He also
wrote and distributed to about 7,000 supporters its monthly eNews.
As part of a three-person team, he reviewed
and reported on the strategic communications of the Department of the
Environment Food and Rural Affairs. This work informed a speech he gave
in Slovenia at the International Conference on Communication Practice.
For Reuter's online broking service, Instinet, he conceived, edited and part wrote a newsletter based on international financial issues. For The Grower he wrote an article about the benefits of a post-harvest treatment for UK fresh fruit. While serving as Communications Director for gas and electricity consumer watchdog, energywatch, he drafted the case document for major reform in the sales practices of energy companies. The document attracted major national coverage and formed the basis of submissions to parliamentarians, the industry regulator, and the opening address by the energy minister at an industry summit. Also at energywatch he was responsible for all internal communications, drafting or amending much of the written material on the company intranet and the chief executive's speeches for the annual staff meeting and industry and political conferences.
For Shell Chemicals' managing director he ran a programme to identify and make bids for speaker platforms. The bids required synopses of the proposed speeches or presentations. He has written several chairpersons' and chief excecutives' sections for annual reports. Jonathan
has a good grasp of social media. In 2011, he designed and wrote a blog aimed
at influencing key opinion formers about a major international legal case and
regularly tweets for ContingencyToday @CTReviewEditor. His first novel, My Persian Girl, drawing on personal experience of the 1978 Iranian revolution, was published in 2009. | 
