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Wesley Rock Communications consultant and media expertWR

Wesley Rock

Communications consultant and media expert
  • Suggested rate
    On-demand
  • Experience8-15 years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
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London, United Kingdom
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  • and around London (up to 50km)
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Wesley in a few words
I'm a strategic communications consultant with a background in senior media roles. With a depth of experience in shaping and anticipating the news agenda, I advise communications leaders on strategic campaigns, media relations, reputation management and winning new business.
My expertise is in understanding audiences and creating impactful stories, and using an insider's knowledge to secure coverage across all platforms.
I ran the news desk at the Sunday Telegraph, was editor of The Times & Sunday Times website, and recently oversaw the US election coverage for a major American title.
I'm also experienced at high-level strategic decision-making and stakeholder management, from restructuring The Times newsroom to make it digital-first, to merging The Times & Sunday Times production operations and launching a new international edition.
I led news teams for some of the biggest stories of our time and am now harnessing this experience to add value to communications teams.
Experience
  • Rock Comms Ltd
    Director
    January 2025 - Today (4 months)
    Providing consulting services for strategic communications agencies, offering insight gained from over a decade in senior media roles. Advising on strategy, media engagement, reputation management and winning new business.
  • Newsweek
    Senior Editor
    June 2024 - December 2024 (6 months)
    Head of Live News department and lead editor on Newsweek's US election coverage. Tasked with improving search visibility by 50% — achieved 300%.

    Established a new AI-focused department with custom-built tools to cover politics and live, breaking stories.

    Oversaw a newsroom-wide SEO-focused restructure that helped the title on its way to becoming the fastest-growing of the world's top 50 English-language news sites.
  • The Telegraph
    News Editor
    April 2023 - June 2024 (1 year and 2 months)
    Primary responsibility for planning, commissioning and editing the Sunday Telegraph, and the Telegraph's award-winning weekend website.

    Reporting to the editor, I conceived, planned and edited agenda-setting investigations and exclusives. Managed specialist reporters, correspondents and the parliamentary team to generate ideas and execute them.

    Led teams of news editors, reporters and audience engagement journalists to get ahead of the news agenda and find the angles that would shape the national conversation.
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Education
  • Bachelor of Arts
    University College London
    BA (Hons) Philosophy