Christiaan Boonzaier

• Executed targeted strategies by creating articles, banners, board reports, emails, infographics, LinkedIn posts, newsletters, podcasts, presentations, SharePoint sites, speeches, surveys, and videos. • Designed and distributed materials using Adobe Creative Suite, Canva, Everlytic, and Microsoft 365. • Supported event planning for conferences, awards ceremonies, town halls, and workshops. • Measured engagement metrics using Power BI, Excel, and analytics tools while tracking project progress in Jira.

Delivered diverse freelance communication services, including: • bilingual translation of memoirs, novels, and documentary subtitles; • scriptwriting of 2 short films; • journalism covering South African arts and film; • social media management for Stellenbosch University; • video caption proofreading and style guide development; • copy-editing academic work for international universities; • archival research and guest sourcing for documentary productions; and • novel-editing projects.

• Produced over 1,115 arts journalism pieces for the news platform Netwerk24 and its three sister newspapers, averaging 7,000 words weekly across columns, investigations, reviews, and profiles, and covering dance, film, literature, music, theatre, TV, and visual art. • Managed CMS publishing, headlines, and page layouts. • Attended news meetings, pitched stories, and coordinated with editorial teams and layout artists for print compilation.

• Proofread a range of above-the-line (TV and radio scripts) as well as below-the-line advertisements (banners, brochures, bunting, decals, flyers, leaflets, in-store posters and signage, packaging, pamphlets, shelf labels, stickers, style guides, among other things) that focussed on work produced for the retail giant Pick n Pay. • Translated various types of published and unpublished advertising copy from English to Afrikaans.

• Copy-edited and proofread an introduction and 10 academic research articles for the journal "Comparativ: A Journal of Global History and Comparative Studies", as part of an unpaid internship at the university's Sonderforschungsbereich 1199.

• Wrote news, science, and tech articles. • Translated wire copy (English–Afrikaans). • Produced five news podcast every week, managing everything from guest sourcing to scriptwriting. • Managed our social media presence (Hootsuite, SocialFlow, TweetDeck) and analysed metrics. • Moderated online comments and contributed to policy development. • Supervised weekend editorial operations, editing copy, fact-checking, managing CMS publishing, writing headlines, and arranging website content.

• Wrote daily and weekly features, profiles, and articles covering entertainment, health, lifestyle, and news for Huisgenoot magazine, its website, and YOU publication. • Edited the weekly "Tempo" music page, managing freelance contributors, conducting interviews, and writing reviews. • Led the Ubuntu Dream Big community project, identifying readers in need, crafting their stories, and securing sponsorships to provide assistance.

• Proofread a range of below-the-line advertisements (banners, brochures, bunting, decals, flyers, in-store posters and signage, leaflets, mobisites, packaging, pamphlets, shelf labels, stickers, style guides, among other things), as well as a few through-the-line and above-the-elements, like scripts for radio infomercials. • Wrote copy for below-the-line advertisements, as well as 34's agency material (press releases, website copy).

• Conducted article research for the magazines "Eat In", "Eat Out", and "Time Out Cape Town", during a month-long internship.

• Wrote news articles during a four-week long internship (throughout 2008) for EikestadNuus, a community newspaper.

[Subjects] Aspects of regionalization and globalization; IR; economic and security systems; society and politics; Africa and the Near East; Asia and the Middle East, and transitional justice. [Thesis] ZONK! POW! WHAM! Mighty Man to the rescue? Apartheid propaganda in a bilateral comic book, 1975/6.

[Subjects] Media history and media studies (theory and methodology). [Thesis] Flashing boobies and naughty no-no's: a media-historiographical overview of the pornographic magazine in South Africa, 1939 to 1989.

[Subjects] Journalism practice; broadcast journalism; technical journalism; media studies; media, culture, and history, and specialist journalism.

[Subjects] Music technology; music history; music theory; aural training; music education; accompaniment; ensemble work; practical music studies (piano and church organ); didactics, and music journalism.