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
Alex Loveday-Davies worked as a Media Studies Teacher before leading Media Trust’s Vlogstar Challenge programme. The programme aims to develop young people’s creativity and confidence through free film and video blogging(vlogging) workshops in schools and...
Posted 29 January 2019
Nicky Higgs, Head of PR & Comms at IPG Mediabrands EMEA, tells us why she’d recommend volunteering at Media Trust’s Women’s Voices event to anyone. At the beginning of 2018, everyone was predicting that it...
Posted 23 January 2019
Metro journalist Jess Austin shares her experience of Speedmatching and why she thinks every journalist should give it a try. The last time I gave a presentation was during my final year of university, and...
Posted 19 October 2018
Since the age of 13, Mahalia Changlee from London has wanted to be a journalist; so when she signed up to our Transforming Hidden Talent mentoring programme, which pairs young people who want to start...
Posted 1 October 2018
Does Bodyguard pass the “Riz Test”? Media Trust’s Chief Executive Su-Mei doesn’t think so. In her latest blog she looks at representation of minorities on-screen and if film and TV execs are getting it right....
Posted 28 September 2018
Twenty-three-year-old Tomi Ojo shares her experience of making it all the way to the final of the Vlogstar Challenge 2018. The training programme, powered by the Jack Petchey Foundation and run in partnership with YouTube...
Posted 25 September 2018
Twenty-seven-year-old ITV News Wales Journalist Paul Davies’ career is thriving. He has his dream job and recently scooped an ITV News newcomer award. But Paul’s route into journalism hasn’t been conventional. Unlike many of his...
Posted 21 September 2018
