Complex sentence: From 1978, Gorman worked on weekly news for a number of trade publications and freelanced for national newspapers in the UK and the US before taking up the post of west coast bureau chief for Screen International in 1990.
Split into simpler sentences: From 1978, Gorman worked on weekly news for a number of trade publications. Gorman also freelanced for national newspapers in the UK and the US before taking up the post of west coast bureau chief for Screen International in 1990.