Nic Mitchell produces “the kind of specialist journalism, with a thoughtful analysis, that people really want”, said BBC online education news editor Sean Coughlan.
University World News co-founding editor Karen MacGregor described his writing style as “reliable, accurate, independent and insightful.”
Nic Mitchell, left, with fellow life members of the European HE comms network, Ulrike Reimann from Germany and Chris Coe from UK
It’s an approach to writing about international higher education that works equally well in media outlets as it does when European and UK universities want to revitalise their English-language publications and online communications.
Since launching his own consultancy De la Cour Communications in 2012, Nic and his team of freelance journalists and writers have provided native-speaking English-language copy & editing and other communication support to universities in Sweden, Norway and the Czech Republic as well as to UK universities and the European Universities communication network, EUPRIO.
Nic’s reports and features regularly appear in University World News, Times Higher Education special supplements and other higher education specialist media and websites.
Here’s a sample of some of the projects we’ve been involved with
Times Higher Education special supplements
Quantum leaps in computing – UNSW Sydney
On the attack in the lab and the field: eradicating vector-borne diseases – University of South Florida
University of Durham
Dunelm – Durham University’s Alumni magazine: interviewing leading female football coach Annie Zaidi and Smiti Kumar, president of the North American Foundation for the University
Oslo Met University, Norway
Interviews with researchers for online and printed English-language publications, including a look at the Horizon 2020 funded DARE project into why some young people are attracted to extremist groups
University World News
Online fee-paying libraries tackle textbook inflation
British TNE is up in the EU – but down in older markets. I talk to experts about trends in transnational education
Blogs
Is there a third way to sort Brexit
Diversity in the university rankings – story for DelaCourCommunications.com website
Video interviews
Talking to speakers at EUPRIO’s conference in Sevilla, Spain last year for EUPRIO’s YouTube channel.
Awards and acknowledgements
Nic Mitchell with the 2015 CIPR Award. Picture by Emily Hughes.
