Jessica Mason
Jessica Mason has been a food, drinks and pub journalist for the past eight years and heads up all features across The Publican’s Morning Advertiser as well as contributing articles for both Restaurant magazine and M&C Report. In a drinks capacity, she has written for global drinks website just-drinks.com, the TFWA Daily [Tax Free World Association] for its travel-retail shows in Cannes and Singapore, duty-free title Frontier and both pub trade titles The Publican and The Morning Advertiser prior to their merge. Jessica was formerly an entertainment magazines publisher and sometime film, games and lifestyle journalist before realising how much she liked the drinks industry. In her current role she judges a range of food and drink awards and loves nothing more than a decent a pint. She is also contributing author for the book 1001 Whiskies You Must Try Before You Die as well as an apprentice brewer.
Contact info
- Tel:
- 01293 846549
- Email:
- jessica.mason@wrbm.com
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OpinionSpecial plans brewing up north
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