Andy Pemberton used to edit Q magazine in the UK and Blender and Spin magazines in the US. He has written on a variety of subjects for The Sunday Times, The Observer, GQ, Esquire, Elle magazine, The New York Times, The National (Dubai) and The Times of India. He launched music website Musictoob, redesigned the BTVision website and writes for The Huffington Post and Yahoo.com. Most recently he was editor of the dummy issue of Gaz7etta, the male equivalent of Grazia, for Bauer Publishing. Contact Andy

"Many thanks.  I found the course incredibly useful."

Steve Thompson is an experienced digital media specialist, having worked in the digital publishing business since 1996. In this time, he has worked for a number of multimedia creative agencies, and has held senior management positions in Newsquest Media Group and fish4. Since 2006, Steve has worked as a freelance Digital Media Consultant, specialising in the design and delivery of digital advertising commercial training programmes to a large number of UK publishers including Telegraph Media Group, Guardian Media Group, Haymarket, Incisive Media and William Reed. His areas of expertise include digital recruitment and digital display advertising as well as interests in webanalytics and social media. Contact Steve

"I have had some fantastic feedback about the courses... Thank you very much for organising it - it has made a real difference!"

Susan Marling is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. Her experience spans the national press, BBC television and radio, Channel 4 and a selection of magazines and journals. She runs an independent radio production company, Just Radio, which is part of Just Television (specialising in news and current affairs). She is a double Sony Gold award winner and has presented Woman's Hour, Punters, Breakaway and Kitchen Cabinet.  Alongside her radio career she has made regular TV appearances including Dispatches and Travelog for Channel 4. She is a regular contributor to The Daily Telegraph and BBC Good Food travel pages, has written a weekly column in the travel pages of The Indepedent on Sunday and Daily Mail and was travel editor of Good Housekeeping.  Contact Susan 

"Clear, confident and strong at maintaining my interest through the day.  I was impressed that she had made a geniune effort to devise exercises relevant to the brands."

Michele Sinclair started the Business Improvement Consultancy in 1994 and specialises in management, personal and career development skills. She works both one-to-one and in small groups and has worked with clients in the UK, Italy, Holland, France, Germany, Scandanavia and Canada. Some of her clients include Dennis Publishing, Ford Financial, Pfizer, Svenska Handelsbanken, Reed Elsevier, WeberShandwick, The Conran Group, Edelman Global Communications and the Music Publishers Association.  She has wide experience of many industries at all levels and her pragmatic approach produces tangible results.  Contact Michele

"Brilliant! Michele doesn't mince her words which is great. Her experience is invaluable."

Liz Nice regularly contributes real life articles to a wide variety of newspapers and magazines and is currently a lecturer in journalism at Sheffield University. Before this she went to the US as editor in chief of Twist Magazine, where she relaunched and turned it from a celebrity monthly into a teen lifestyle magazine. She has been a freelance writer and editor at Marie Claire; the editor of Bliss (which she relaunched and for which she was nominated as PPA Editor of the Year in 2001); deputy editor of More! and Take a Break and contributing editor of New Woman. She has recently written articles for the Daily Express, The Observer, Best, Chat, Glamour, Top Sante and Mother and Baby.  Contact Liz

"Super-experienced journalist who really understands our problems. A really engaging and useful combo of practical advice and ideas for moving things forward."

Wendy Bristow is a professional journalist and a trained and qualified coach.  As a journalist, Wendy was responsible for creating, launching and editing More! magazine; she was associate editor on the launch of Empire; deputy editor of both Company and Cosmopolitan and spent five years as news editor of Campaign. In Australia she oversaw the launch of weekly magazine, Now!, before going freelance and winning the prestigious Henry Lawson award for Journalism for her first piece for the Sydney Morning Herald.  She now combines her freelance journalism with coaching and training. She began training in 1991, becoming editorial training manager for Emap and co-designing their successful Senior Editorial Programme for future editors. Since then she has trained, both Editorial Skills and Editorial Management, for a range of companies including the National Magazine Company, John Brown Citrus, the BBC and Redwood.  Contact Wendy

"Very impressive, information and ideas clearly presented. Made a difficult subject very simple. Beneficial to go through and solve our everyday problems with other group members. Certainly feel a lot more confident."

Caroline Gabriel has spent a large part of her career in senior positions at VNU Business Publishing Europe, where she was most recently editorial director across all titles and websites; publishing director of vnunet.com; group editor and editor of various titles. Today she is a director of Rethink Research Associates and has been responsible for creating the Wireless Watch analyst service.  She specialises in Editorial Management sessions.  Contact Caroline

"Thanks for your help and direction, much appreciated."

Jeremy Scholfield founded 'Skin' in 2004, a strategic branding and design consultancy. Skin specialises in brand identity, packaging design and retail identity and graphics. He was previously a board director of Interbrand, where his clients included Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Marks and Spencer, Waitrose, Seagram and The National Trust. Before this he was a board director of Newell and Sorrell where he managed and directed their Boots' business for over 12 years, as well as working with Halfords, Schweppes, Austin Reed and Warehouse. He has won three DBA Design Effectiveness awards, two Clios and an International Global Award.  Contact Jeremy

"An excellent teacher, with a great deal of authority on the subject area."

Gill Pyrah is an experienced and award-winning radio, television and print journalist. She has presented Radio 4's Kaleidoscope, Midweek and Gardeners' Question Time, as well as Channel 4 Daily and the political briefing programme, The World This Week, also on Channel 4. At LBC Radio she hosted her own daily two-hour afternoon show of interviews, news, debate and phone-ins, The Pyrah Programme, for which she was named the Variety Club's Independent Radio Personality of the Year. Her print work includes contributions to Cosmopolitan, The Daily Telegraph and The Listener.  Gill is a Media Training and Presentation Skills specialist  Contact Gill

"All of the feedback is incredibly positive."

Mary Gwynn is a highly respected editorial consultant and trainer, who counts blue chip companies such as Waitrose, Haymarket and the BBC amongst her clients. Formerly editor in chief of The M&S Magazine, the flagship title at Redwood, she has also worked on Good Housekeeping, Woman and Home and BBC Good Food.  Contact Mary

"She is great.  One of the best trainers I have worked with."

Guy Meredith is a writer, story editor, script consultant and trainer.  He is a regular speaker at the European Broadcasting Union and helped originate the EU Media Programme's television scriptwriting course, where he was Head of Studies for seven years.  He has lectured on various aspects of writing for broadcasters, publishers, universities and other professional bodies both in his native UK and in a dozen other countries.  His writing credits include: Ruth Rendell Mysteries for ITV, Einstein for BBC, Heartbeat for ITV, Daunt and Dervish for BBC. Guy has been nominated for the Prix Futura, Prix Italia and three Writers Guild Awards.

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