THE GRAPHIC NEWS TEAM
Graphic News is produced by a small creative company with a large international footprint – telling world news and sport stories visually in a distinctive and succinct visual format
Although the Graphic News Collective LLP is based in London, many of the individual members work remotely, some full-time and some part-time. In addition to the creative team, there is a team of translators/language editors and a support team
The creative teamPhil Bainbridge — graphic journalist, web developer, Managing Partner
Jim Batsis — specialist illustrator
Jordi Bou — graphic journalist
Ninian Carter — graphic journalist
Duncan Mil — graphic journalist, founder
Mike Tyler — graphic journalist
Christopher Dinsdale — graphic journalist, sport
Julie Mullins — page editor, proofer
Susan Shepherd — page editor, proofer
The support teamJane Brodie — Managing Partner (Spanish and French speaker)
Jennifer Bermudez e-marketeer and roving Ambassador (Spanish speaker)
Fiona Roberts — strategic planning, founder
Elena Yiannaki — accounts receivable, support (Russian speaker)
Ben Ellenbroek (Dutch) ....
Trained as such at the Academy of Arts in Rotterdam, Ben kicked off his working career as an independent graphic designer and screen printer in the late 1970s, with part time jobs as editorial designer and screen print instructor on the side.
From 1985, he experimented with producing graphics digitally – or at least partially – on an Apple Macintosh, but the introduction of Adobe Illustrator 88 made him swap slide ruler and rubber cement glue for bits and bytes indefinitely.
After a decade of producing infographics for newspapers and commercial advertising agencies, besides freelance graphic and editorial designing for numerous weeklies and some monthlies, he accepted a full time job as an infographics editor at the Dutch daily Algemeen Dagblad, where eventually he coordinated a 15-person strong department, dedicated solely to visualizing the news.
Ben joined Graphic News at the beginning of 2017.
Traute Redlich (German) .....
Traute joined Graphic News in 2004, after nearly 40 years in the media industry. She started work with two specialist journals for modern design in marketing, then as editor and proof reader, followed by over 20 years with Reuters Austria covering the evolving media business in Eastern Europe and CIS after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989.
At Graphic News she quickly recognized the need to make graphics available in German, and took on this responsibility herself - buying a Mac and learning to use Adobe Illustrator.
A "news addict", she also enjoys her countryside garden near Vienna, and says that "being a member of such a dedicated team is simply great".
Rui Fernandes de Carvalho (Portuguese) .....
With a background in geology and civil engineering, Rui began his career in the field of geotechnical studies. Then in 1982, when an accident led him to change occupation, he chose what was his hobby from a young age - language learning and translation. In fact, during military service, he was also a translator for the national news agency.
Then, in 1989, he started a collaboration with the weekly Expresso, then the most widely circulated newspaper in Portugal, for the translation of features from all correspondents and covering the domains of science and technology as well as event reporting worldwide.
He joined Graphic News in 2011, and combines this with working on his olive farm.
Carmen Rosas Chávez (Spanish) .....
Based in Mexico, Carmen initially trained as a teacher, before working as a translator-interpreter at Berlitz, and then beginning her career in the media industry at the newspaper Excelsior. From there Carmen moved to the financial news agency SIFE, and on to United Press International where she worked for four years, until the agency closed its offices in México. Following a short period at Xinhua News Agency, she joined the Associated Press.
Carmen joined Graphic News in 2008, giving her the opportunity to combine translation with English-language teaching.