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Media Minds is a highly professional media consultancy specialising in media training. We also offer crisis management training and communications consultancy of a problem-solving kind. There is no project too small or - alternatively - too complex for us to tackle.

A truly unique and skilful team dedicated to developing and making each individual into a powerful presenter. We are always professional, but also fun, and aim to make the process an enjoyable experience! Communications consultancy is led by Judith Byrne.

THE MEDIA MINDS TEAM

Judith Byrne MA MEd FRSA, Principal Consultant, a founder of Media Minds and now its MD. Frequently interviewed on national TV and radio, as Deputy Chief Executive and spokesperson for a government body. Consultant in strategic communications since 1996, oversees strategic development of the company and is available for one to one executive strand and for appointment panels.

John Getgood, Media and Communications Consultant, brings to all his Media Minds work the spontaneity and inventiveness of live television. Starting in Local Radio he produced and presented the morning new sequence and on Radio 4 was responsible for the daily consumer show You and Yours. Output Editor on BBC TV’s Breakfast Time, Deputy Editor on Watchdog and Editor of That’s Life. Responsible for Kilroy and was for 5 years in charge of the BBC’s annual appeal programme Children in Need. Media skills training, speechwriting, production of press releases and crisis communication.

Diana Madill, Media and Communications Consultant, is a familiar Radio 4 voice and regularly presents You and Yours. She has also fronted PM, Woman’s Hour, Midweek and the Learning Curve. Television presentation includes Westminster Live on BBC2, budgets and elections and Despatch Box, Talkback and BBC Six O’Clock news. Media training and communications support.

Robin Clifford OBE, FCMI, MCIPR, Crisis Management Consultant is the Communications Director for AEGIS, a London based private risk management consultancy. As a Colonel in the British Army he ran NATO’s media operations in Kosovo in 1999 and the UK’s media operations in Afghanistan and Iraq from 2001 to 2003. Before retiring early in 2005 he was responsible for commercial protection and exploitation of the Army’s reputation and intellectual property. Crisis management and crisis communication, media training, communications support.

Sheena McDonald, Media Consultant, has worked in radio and television news and current affairs for over twenty years. She specialises in international affairs, politics, arts and religion, and also makes documentaries, debate-programmes and series. She currently appears on BBC News 24, BBC Radio 4 (The World Tonight and Talking Politics) amongst other commitments. Media training, conference chairing.

Liz Fawcett, Policy Consultant, worked for many years as a reporter and correspondent for the BBC. She has run two very successful postgraduate courses in journalism and political communication, and also has campaigning experience. Communications support.

Rick Thompson, Policy Consultant, was the BBC’s award-winning Foreign Editor in charge of coverage of the Falklands War and is an experienced strategic planner and policy-maker for the BBC. Editor of the Nine O’Clock news and Head of News and Local programmes for Pebble Mill, then head of newsgathering for the BBC World Service. Now an adviser to the European Commission on broadcasting and Visiting Professor at the University of Central England. Crisis management and communications support.

A number of current broadcasters and journalists are also members of the Media Minds team.

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