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
Media Trust CEO Su-Mei Thompson examines the media and creative industry’s focus on social impact at Cannes Lions. Last week’s Cannes Lions Festival drove home how 2019 is all about purpose. To quote Unilever CEO, Alan...
Posted 28 June 2019
Weber Shandwick’s Lotty Chudley shares her experience of volunteering at Media Trust’s recent Women’s Voices event, and why she thinks sharing skills with charities is something everyone working in the media and creative industries should...
Posted 30 April 2019
Oliver Youd’s pipe dream turned into a reality as he made it all the way to the 2018 Breaking into News final. He shares his journey through the competition and mentoring programme, which Media Trust...
Posted 21 March 2019
Camilla Yates, Planning Director at ELVIS shares their mission to create a more inclusive creative industry and why they have teamed up with Media Trust to discover new talent. At ELVIS, we believe that the...
Posted 5 March 2019
After completing Media Trust’s Creativity Works Multimedia Genius Training programme, 25-year-old Londoner, Stephanie Harris was offered a place at the UK’s leading NCTJ journalism school courtesy of Yahoo! News. She tells us how she got...
Posted 20 February 2019
