General and Health Writing - Jane Worthington/Director

• Jane Worthington has been a journalist for 20 years, beginning her career as a staff reporter for News Limited in Sydney, first on The Australian and then the Daily Telegraph (88-93).
  
  
• Jane then worked overseas before starting up the freelance writing and PR agency Write This Way in 2001.
  
  
• In recent years, Jane has written for The Sunday Telegraph Body & Soul, Reader's Digest HeatlhSmart, Men's Health, Weight Watchers, The Australian's Wish magazine, The Australian and The Sydney Morning Herald. Jane is now the health editor for Woman's Day magazine, Australia's biggest selling weekly magazine.
  
  
• Jane is also a published international author with Penguin and has won several awards. Most recently, she was a 2006 Australian finalist in the international ACE (Awarding Cancer Enlightenment Awards), a global competition recognising quality health reporting. In 2007 Jane also received a national Jelly Baby award for excellence in the reporting of diabetes.
  
  
• Jane has a wealth of experience in broadsheets, tabloids and magazines and her areas of interest include health and consumer issues.
  
  
• Jane has written client publications for a range of big pharmaceutical companies (Merck, AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline and Roche) and also has regular guest spots on a number of radio stations across Australia.
  
  
• Jane also co-hosts the annual Medical Media Awards with ABC TV's National Health Reporter Sophie Scott. These awards recognise health professionals who provide outstanding service to the media, to medicine and to the community.
  
  
• To contact Jane call 0403 824 833 or email writethiswaymedia@gmail.com.

Lifestyle and Celebrity Writing - Monique Butterworth

• With a celebrity contact book the envy of her peers, Monique Butterworth is a specialist freelance entertainment, celebrity and lifestyle writer, with 20 years' experience in the media.
  
  
• Monique has held writing and editing roles for Australia's biggest selling women's weekly magazines including Woman's Day, New Idea and New Weekly.
  
  
• Monique has also written for OK! Magazine, The Australian newspaper's Wish Magazine, SMH's Good Living magazine and in her early years worked on Sydney's Daily Telegraph.
  
  
• Monique was responsible for breaking the biggest-selling cover story in the past 10 years of magazine history - with her exclusive story of the Bec and Lleyton wedding.
  
  
• Monique's most recent corporate clients include Weight Watchers for whom she provides strategic advice and much of the information used in Weight Watcher's client resource packs.
  
  For more information call Monique on 0416 311 222 or email moniqueb@unwired.com.au

Events - George Washingmachine

• A long time member of the "Bonza Vista Social Club" George Washingmachine's seductively smoochy vocals have made him one of Sydney's most sought after jazz entertainers. Also an accomplished actor, journalist, lyricist and composer, George can team up with other journalists and writers to produce a ditty-to-die-for at any corporate occasion or product launch.
  
  
• George has hosted the 2008 Darling Harbour Jazz Festival, the 2007 Taronga Park Zoo New Year's Eve party and his private clients include David Grant Special Events, IBM International, American Express, the Art Gallery of NSW and Westpac. So if you're looking for a swinging experience, underpinned by a delightful sense of humour and superb musicality, then George is your man.
  
  
• For further information on George see www.washingmachine.com.au