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Making an impact at the Edelman Challenge Day

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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

Team of Edelman staff and charity sitting around a table brainstorming

Reaching hearts and minds in a post-truth world

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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

Hands making a frame shape with the view of the sky in the background

The tweet that changed my life

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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

Nicole being filmed for her report for Itv tyne tees

The honesty, agency and power of #pressforprogress

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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

Megan Van Someren, JWT at 2018 Women's Voices event

CEO Blog: Strengthening voices

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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

Su-Mei speaking at the Google Quiz

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try and try again

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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

Babatunde Onabajo joined Media Trust’s Transforming Hidden Talent in 2016.

How my mentor helped me succeed

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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

Romana