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Donnacha DeLong

London, UK

About

Title: Online Editorial Consultant

Donnacha DeLong is the London-based online communications consultant trading as Autonomy Consulting. Since 2010, Donnacha has been working with clients to support them in rebuilding their websites and improving their online communications.

Donnacha worked on building the new Nautilus International website, launched in 2018. Previous to that, he worked on the redesign of the TUC unionlearn website in 2015 and the new NUJ website and CMS in 2013. Donnacha has trained staff in the use of new CMSs and delivered workshops in the effective use of social media.

Donnacha is an experienced online journalist. He has a BA in Journalism from Dublin City University and an MA in Political Communications from City, University of London. He also completed a short course in html5/css3 at City, University of London, in July 2015.

Before 2010, Donnacha was a website editor and journalist for more than a decade.

He was Senior Site Editor of Amnesty International's global website, amnesty.org, from 2007 until 2010. In that time, he played a key role in developing the organisation's use of social media for campaigning and reporting purposes. He previously edited the now defunct news.amnesty website from 2003 to 2007.

Originally from Dublin, Donnacha started working professionally as a journalist on the RTÉ News website in 1998. He worked there through the early days of online journalism until 2002.

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2018-11-02 - present - National Union of Journalists (UK & Ireland) (Project coordinator)
    • 2016-10-17 - 2019-07-08 - Nautilus International (Project lead)