When presenter and broadcaster Ria Hebden isn’t busy brightening our television screens on This Morning, or interviewing some of the biggest names in show business, she spends her time mentoring young people hoping to break...
Posted 31 May 2018
What happens when you bring together 13 high-impact UK charities with 13 teams of communications experts from global communications firm, Edelman? Earlier this month we did just that. Each charity came armed with their own...
Posted 24 May 2018
Media Trust has joined forces with the Equality and Diversity Forum (EDF) for Stronger Voices, a communications-training programme that aims to strengthen the voices of London’s equality organisations. EDF’s Head of Digital and Strategic Communications,...
Posted 4 May 2018
Mariah Wilde is Project Manager of Media Trust’s Vlogstar Challenge youth training programme and competition. The programme teaches 16-25 year olds in London and Essex to produce vlogs (video-blogs) using just their mobile phone. Mariah...
Posted 24 April 2018
Our Breaking into News competition run in partnership with ITV News aims to discover budding broadcast journalists from across the UK. When Nicole Goodwin decided to apply, she didn’t realise just how much of an...
Posted 4 April 2018
At our Women’s Voices event this year, we were fortunate enough to be joined by Megan Van Someren from JWT. In front of an audience of over 200 female media and charity professionals, Megan shared...
Posted 8 March 2018
Yesterday global PR agency Edelman revealed the results of its 18th annual Trust Barometer, a trust and credibility survey measuring trust across a number of institutions, sectors and geographies. Media Trust CEO, Su-Mei Thompson shares...
Posted 23 January 2018
Three months into her role as CEO of Media Trust, Su-Mei shares her thoughts on the media’s role in wider society and our upcoming work with charities and community groups which aims to strengthen underrepresented...
Posted 13 December 2017
Babatunde Onabajo joined Media Trust’s Transforming Hidden Talent in 2016. The 12-month programme, funded by Comic Relief, matches mentors from the creative media industry with young people who are interested in getting into the industry...
Posted 1 November 2017
After stumbling across Media Trust's Transforming Hidden Talent programme, Romana applied, hoping it would help her fulfill her dream of breaking into charity communications.
Posted 27 October 2017
