Way With Words is a commercial copywriting and speechwriting business established in 1997 by husband-and-wife journalists Ross McGravie and Nicole Bittar.

Nicole offers more than 28 years’ writing, editing, sub-editing and proofreading experience for national magazines and metropolitan daily newspapers.

Nicole was the final-read proofreader of national magazines for Domain Group. She worked as a sub-editor of arts and news at The Age for 13 years and concurrently as a business sub-editor for BRW Magazine, which, at the time, was the highest selling business publication, per capita, in the world.

She has also been a fashion writer and stylist for The Age and film, visual art, opera and ballet reviewer for The Age and Herald Sun.

Nicole was also the chief sub-editor of Australian Home Beautiful Magazine and arts and real estate journalist for The Canberra Times.

She helped create award-winning advertising campaigns at Saatchi & Saatchi and DDB Needham Worldwide, as part of AWARD School in Sydney.

Previously, she helped launch successful national trade publications for the jewellery industry and, with Ross, co-launched a magazine for the telecommunications body and urbanlifemag.com.au.

In addition to writing for goodfood.com.au, and her travel stories for The Age appearing in national Good Weekends Away volumes for Fairfax Media, Nicole was also responsible for a popular style column in The Saturday Ageʼs Spectrum, called Covet.

Nicole worked with husband Ross McGravie, an award-winning journalist, at news.com.au (News Limited) for several years; sub-editing national publications and meeting up to 26 daily deadlines.

Ross has been a news producer and sports specialist at the Herald Sun for more than 24 years and was a founding writer and sub-editor for the national commuter newspaper mX.

He was the property editor of Moonee Valley Weekly for 17 years and is the night production editor of The New Daily.

Nicole has worked as a freelance writer for The Age, Broadsheet Media and The Daily Telegraph and she was a proofreader, sub-editor and writer for Hardie Grant Media for more than four years.

She also achieved an advanced diploma in filmmaking from Swinburne University in 2012, gaining a high distinction in scriptwriting and screen language.