Media Moves

The Week hires Samuelson as online magazine editor

April 28, 2021

Posted by Mariam Ahmed

Kate Samuelson

Kate Samuelson has joined The Week as an online magazine editor covering news and features/arts, including travel and food.

Samuelson will also remain founder and editor of Cheapskate London, an award-winning newsletter, the ultimate guide to the capital’s best free in-person and virtual events. She has also worked as a writer and editor, and as a senior stories and content gathering specialist at Action Aid UK.

She was also a trainee reporter at Mail Online and a news reporter at  Liverpool Echo and South West News Agency. She has also worked at Sky as a digital camera project production assistant.

She has also worked freelance with her work appearing in Time, The Guardian, Stylist, The i newspaper, The Jewish Chronicle, Positive News and Metro.co.uk.

Samuelson was also the winner of WeAreTheCity’s Rising Star Award in the ‘digital’ category (May 2020) and was awarded a Print Futures Grant in the ‘creating visual delights’ category (April 2020).

Samuelson is a B.A. in English literature from the University of Bristol and a M.A. in magazine journalism from City, University of London.

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