Media Trust CEO Su-Mei Thompson discusses representation and why hashtag activism isn’t going to work in 2020. Representation in the media has been in the spotlight this month with a number of high-profile industry events...
Posted 3 November 2020
With the Vlogstar Challenge Grand Final on the horizon, finalist Callum Giles shares his thoughts on why he applied and how it’s helped him through the pandemic. I first got involved with Vlogstar Challenge through...
Posted 26 October 2020
Media Trust CEO Su-Mei Thompson on the rapid migration to digital driven by COVID-19 and the role of funders and media industry partners Hello from Media Trust. Amid all the uncertainty with the outlook ahead,...
Posted 19 May 2020
Media Trust CEO Su-Mei Thompson shares the key findings of Media Trust and CharityComms’ survey on the impact of COVID-19 on charity communications and the next steps we’ll be taking to galvanise support from the...
Posted 7 April 2020
Media Trust CEO Su-Mei Thompson shares insights from Media Trust’s Reframing Disability Summit and calls on media and creative organisations to get behind improving the representation of disabled people in media and advertising. As TV...
Posted 7 November 2019
For our ITV Wales finalist, Iain McGibbon, the Breaking into News programme has enabled him to give a platform to an issue close to his heart: the mental health of health care workers. He shares...
Posted 24 July 2019
That’s exactly what Hannah Bridgeman, our ITV Granada Breaking into News finalist, has been doing over the past six weeks. Hannah shares her experience of the competition. Before entering and during the Breaking into News...
Posted 24 July 2019
After his addiction to alcohol nearly killed him, Breaking into News ITV Meridian finalist, Toby Winson shares why he’s using his report as an opportunity to highlight the dangers of alcohol and addiction. Before Breaking...
Posted 23 July 2019
Media Trust’s Director of Charity Services, Jenny Walton discusses the need to bridge the digital skills gap within the sector and why it’s of the upmost importance to her that our new range of online...
Posted 18 July 2019
Akama Davies, Director of Global Solutions and Innovation at Xaxis has been volunteering with Media Trust as a youth mentor and masterclass leader on our Creativity Works Programme for five years. He tells us why...
Posted 1 July 2019
