About Steve Cummins

Steve Cummins

I am a freelance journalist, content designer and editor based in Dublin, Ireland.

If you have a project you’d like me to work on, contact me here.

I mostly write about music, arts and culture, specialising in interviews, reviews and features.

Over the past two decades in journalism, I have also worked as:

  • News Reporter
  • Online and Digital Editor
  • Assistant Sports Editor
  • Arts and Culture Editor
  • Online Multi-Media News Reporter
  • News Sub-Editor
  • Sports Sub-Editor
  • Magazine Editor

DIGITAL AND MULTI-MEDIA JOURNALIST

I am multi-media trained and have a strong and diverse range of digital skills.

My skill sets include:

  • Journalism – reporting, feature writing, critical reviews and interviewing celebrities
  • Content Design – part writing, part UX and part accessibility discipline for writing user-focussed content for the web
  • Audio recording and production using Zoom Recorder and Pro Tools
  • Video editing, recording and production
  • Apps programming, coding and development
  • Layout and design skills using InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator
  • Create, code and design websites using WordPress, CSS, HTML and Javascript
  • Communications – for more than 10 years I have worked as Communications Director

JOURNALISM

Amongst many print and online titles my work has appeared in:
client list

  • The Sunday Times
  • NME
  • The Irish Times
  • Irish Independent
  • RTÉ
  • Nylon magazine
  • Hot Press
  • Nylon Guys
  • The Sunday Independent
  • The Irish Post

CONTENT DESIGN

This is content design.

I’m skilled in this discipline of creating user-focussed content for the web.

As a content designer I have worked on a number of high-profile projects where I have:

  • led the projects
  • researched and developed content plans
  • created content and edited to content design principles
  • carried out user testing
  • repeat

INTERACTIVE E-BOOK FOR THE iPAD


Launched Legend of Fionn: The Salmon of Knowledge on the iPad in 2015.
View a promo video for the AppStore app here.

Legend of Fionn:

  • An interactive e-book for the iPad
  • You can read it and interact with the various elements on the screen.
  • It’s based on The Salmon of Knowledge, a story from modern mythology.

My role as part of a three-person development team was:

  • coding the app
  • bug fixing using the Corona SDK
  • writer of our slightly darker version of the myth to compliment the aesthetic created by my fellow team member, Rob Hunt.

FIRST FORTNIGHT – COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR 


Communications Director for more than 10 years with First Fortnight, an arts-based initiative aimed at challenging mental health prejudice and discrimination.

I offer my time on a voluntary basis and also sit on the charity’s Board of Directors.

Our media books regularly came in at in excess of €1million in terms of the advertising spend equivalent for the press I was able to generate.

You can check out First Fortnight here

VIDEO

My skills in video production include:

  • video editing
  • camera operation
  • production
  • direction
  • writing and research

I co-produced this short documentary on Dublin’s Moore Street. The doc was edited in Adobe Premiere Pro and also used After Effects.

Moore Street — An Uncertain Future
(2011)

Short documentary on the 1916 site on Moore Street in the centre of Dublin.

My contribution was as:

  • writer
  • producer
  • editor
  • researcher
  • interviewer
  • co-director

Made as part of MA in Creative Digital Media (DIT)

The Road — Opening Title Sequence
(2011)

Made using Adobe After Effects and Adobe Premiere Pro overlaying some original footage that I shot, as well as overlays on stills from the movie.

Brief:

  • Capture the mood of the movie ‘The Road’
  • Ensure sequence dovetails seamlessly into the start of the film, using images, sound and effects

Effects created in this sequence:

  • rain
  • rain drops on the camera
  • sun going down
  • sun-beams
  • fog
  • clouds moving
  • birds flying across the screen
  • fire
  • smoke by the river

All work reproduced on this website is © Steve Cummins.