 Jonathan Rush has written, edited and ghost written articles for magazines, newsletters and Internet magazines and drafted annual reports, brochures and case documents for non-Party political 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 Internet magazine, ContingencyToday.com, www.contingencytoday.com . Like all of its team, he works remotely, using a web management system 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 subjects easier to read and more interesting to the non-expert. Examples of his work include: Heathrow: Time to Get Smarter and Faster in Internet magazine, Contingency Today, 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. He was commissioned by US-based magazine Water and Wastewater International to cover the opening of Europe's largest wastewater treatment plant by France's new deputy prime minister. For geographic information systems company, Pitney Bowes MapInfo, he wrote Speeding Up Ambulance Times, which appeared in various trade magazines 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.
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 is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Journalists; and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. | 
