The Week hires Samuelson as online magazine editor

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.