Talking Media Training

Kathryn Kelly	Kathryn Kelly has worked in all sectors of the media – at local, regional and national levels. She began her career in journalism on the weekly Tiverton Gazette in Devon, covering funerals and flower shows. After a spell on the regional Western Morning News, she went to BBC Radio Devon as a reporter and news producer. From there, Kathryn went to Independent Radio News and LBC Radio in London, where she was a newsreader and duty editor. This was followed by television training at ITN, leading to a stint as a reporter and producer of the main news bulletins. She also provided reports on London stories for regional television stations. A media trainer for the past 12 years, Kathryn has worked with a diverse range of organisations – from blue-chip companies to charities, both in the UK and abroad. She specialises in Crisis Media Management and PR and Media Relations. Kathryn also continues to work as a freelance journalist and has contributed to a number of publications including: The Daily Express, The Times Education Supplement, Director Magazine and Devon Life.

Chris Adams	Chris Adams is a founding partner of Talking Media with over 18 years' experience of video production and training. As a Freelance Cameraman he worked in the Newsroom at Westcountry TV and supplied images for many TV companies including the BBC, ITN, GMTV, C4, Sky and Channel 5 He is a producer, cameraman and editor working on corporate and promotional video for the public and private sector. Chris's training work covers professional hands-on video editing, camerawork and lighting courses as well as facilitating video projects with young people. For the last 12 years Chris has taught Practical Media Studies at Degree and HE level at The College of St Mark and St John, Falmouth College, Cirencester College and Weymouth College. He was recently been involved in writing the new Media Foundation course for the School of Visual Arts at Exeter College and has been instrumental in the setting up of The Exeter Academy of Digital Media.


Anthony Abbott	Mike Fennell	Stuart Elford	Suzanne Evett
Anthony Abbott has been a journalist for 20 years. A trainee on the weekly free paper the Bedford Journal, he rose to the role of Chief Reporter following the paper’s takeover in 1986. Two years later, he moved to Northcliffe Newspaper’s largest provincial evening, the Leicester Mercury before joining the Plymouth Evening Herald in 1990 as Chief Reporter. He became News Editor before making the switch to the regional Sunday Independent also based in Plymouth. After a spell in public relations, when he worked primarily for the South West Regional Development Agency in Cornwall, he was approached by the South West’s leading photographic agency Apex, based in Exeter in 2001. He was appointed News Editor and set up a reporting operation as the company made the transition from primarily a photo agency to a fully integrated news agency.	Mike Fennell has been a journalist for 23 years, starting in the print media in Lincolnshire, working through to News Editor at BBC Radio Humberside. He eventually moved to the southwest to take up a similar post in the BBC's Plymouth newsroom, but then chose to get back to his journalistic roots, first becoming the region's Local Government Correspondent, working for both Spotlight and Radios Devon and Cornwall, then in 1996 as the BBC Television South West Home Affairs Correspondent. Recently, Mike took on a new role helping to produce and compile reports for the BBC TV regional political programme - ‘The Politics Show’. Mike has significant contacts throughout the media and political world, both locally and nationally, and knows what will and what will not make a story.	Stuart Elford was formerly the Force Spokesperson for the Devon and Cornwall Constabulary, working within the busy PR department. He managed crisis on a daily basis, whilst promoting a positive image of an organisation that does not always have the full support of the public it serves. Stuart is now part of the Formedia team, helping businesses to improve their profile or promote themselves, their product or service. Stuart is pictured speaking live on National BBC Television News during the National Fuel dispute, one of many major incidents and events he media managed during his time with the Constabulary.	After several years working in the design dept at the BBC, Suzanne then joined the then new Sky TV. Seeing an opportunity to join the news room team Suzanne trained and worked behind the scenes. She progressed to presenting the news and other features also presenting Sky's technical information channel. As a result of the link up with SKY and QVC, Suzanne became part of the team put together to set up the US shopping channel in the UK. She presented for QVC both here and America for several years. Suzanne headed west and became news anchor for Chanel One cable network for one year before taking up the position of GMTV news reader for Westcountry News. This has resulted in a permanent move to her native Devon, where she now freelances in mostly corporate work.