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Recent editor job: Issue 2, Sept 2011  Recent articles: Waypoint Magazine, Combat & Search Special Edition Issue 32, December 2011 Halo of safety
The role of door gunners on CSAR helicopters 
Issue 31, Nov 2011 ORBIS Flying Eye Hospital Training to save sight, worldwide 
Jan/ Feb 2011
Femke’s endeavour is at all times to provide sharp and accurate, well-researched news and feature writing- matched to publication style and to tight deadlines. She tries to combine this with her creative, positive, communicative and conscientious nature, and a natural curiosity for stories. On a personal level, she is mostly interested in issues to do with using earth less like a hotel as we do now!
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Hampshire and London-based freelance 41-year-old journalist. Qualified at postgraduate level at the LondonSchool of Journalism. Twelve years of journalism experience as a camerawoman and feature writer. Fluent in both English and Dutch, Femke provides articles in both languages for a variety of clients; from trade magazines to newspapers.
Originally from The Netherlands, Femke started her working career in London shortly after moving there 21 years ago. She began working as a (news)camerawoman in 1996. With a thirst for stories she also moved into print journalism in 2003 and, taking her previous TV news knowledge with her, Femke now also complements her articles with photography.
"My first TV camera job was filming the Princess Di funeral for Sky News. From then followed eight years of filming and travelling as a lighting camerawoman and on OB and studio productions, for clients such as Sky
News, Reuters, CNBC, Carlton 021 and The Travel Channel. Filming the likes of Michael Jackson, George Michael and Benazir Bhutto, my desire to locate and publicise real stories from real people grew. For my first news report for a great local north London community newspaper I still remember sitting in someone's backroom listening to their life story."
Now, as a feature writer, Femke submits to a variety of publications. For example, she edits health and fitness trade magazine bodyLIFE UK , which has been published in a variety of languages around Europe since 2001, and she writes a bi-weekly art column for Dutch national newspaper NRC Handelsblad . Other clients include Waypoint Magazine, Best Practice Magazine and The Archer Newspaper , which gave her an invaluable opportunity to break into journalism.
Femke also helps train postgraduate students at the London College of Journalism after qualifying there herself, and still provides camera work for, for instance, Oxford-based First Sight Media.
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