Christian Nelson

Editorial Director Chris Nelson (44) has in-depth knowledge of the editorial processes involved in national, regional and local newspaper and magazine production gained through many years working in the print-media industry.
Christian Nelson. Former of BackBench Solutions, Printed Media Outsourcing company.
His 20-year career includes senior positions with such varied titles as the http://www.independent.co.uk/, http://www.mediauk.com/magazines/141750/the-big-issue-in-the-north, The http://www.dailysport.co.uk, http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/, http://www.nme-magazine.com/?gclidCO658d2hlpoCFYKB3godjmu1Mw&T1241014085&JTID97441560&OGID183&network=GAW and The http://www.thestar.ie/.
Raised in Harrogate, North Yorjshire, he attended the Harrogate Grammar School in the 70s. He then studied sculpture and in the mid-80s took a BA (hons) degree course at http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/.
In 1987, he returned to his home town and joined a marginally successful rock band before taking a trainee position with the much-respected http://www.harrogateadvertiser.net/ local newspaper series in 1989.
Over the following seven years he worked his way up from cub reporter to senior sub-editor with personal responsibility for the entire editorial and design production of one broadsheet paid-for and one tabloid per week. He also wrote two regular columns for the series and numerous entertainment and feature pieces.
While there, he also took advantage of the rapidly changing print-production environment to become proficient with the raft of new computer-based systems, such as Apple Macintosh and Quark Xpress, which started to come online in the early 90s.
In 1996 he left Harrogate to work in London as a free-lance senior news sub for titles including The Sunday Independent, The Sunday Business, NME, the Mirror and Express series. This invaluable experience allowed him to fine-tune his print editorial skills to the level required by the British national press.
In 1998, he took the role of chief sub-editor at new magazine IT Marketing. When this B2B publication folded after a year he returned north and in 1999 was appointed chief sub at the Big Issue in the North magazine in Manchester.
From 1999 to 2003 he developed the editorial production of the magazine. This resulted in the Big Issue hitting record ABC figures. As a personal project, he devised and produced the magazine's Coronation Street 40th Anniversary special edition. At 80,000+ this became, and still is, the highest selling single issue the Big Issue has ever had. At the same time he took the opportunity to interview well-known names from the worlds of sport, music and the environment for the magazine. Many became Big Issue front-page stories.
In 2004, after becoming a qualified English teacher, he joined the Daily Sport newspaper as senior news sub where he gained further experience of the cutting-edge editorial processes involved in running a popular daily tabloid.
Taking this knowledge, he moved to Dublin, Ireland, in 2007 where he worked was senior news sub for the Irish Daily Star. While he was there, the newspaper enjoyed the highest sales figures in its history. At the same time he undertook InDesign training and gained the PA Advanced National Newspaper Sub-Editor qualification.
In 2008 he left to form BackBench Solutions Limited, with Production Director Andy Pacino.
In his spare time he renovates his holiday home in France, writes short stories and scripts, paints and sketches - and follows Leeds United.

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