Our Expert Trainers & Consultants

Our expert trainers and consultants are the secret of our success. They are all seasoned journalists, broadcasters and communications experts. Their experience comes from working with broadcasters such as Sky TV, BBC & ITN and newspapers ranging from The Sunday Times to The Sun. They really do know what’s going on in today’s online media age and the opportunities that are there for the taking.

We have an extensive team of expert trainers and consultants covering media, crisis, print, presentation and social media.
Our expert team of trainers and consultants includes:

Roz Morris Media Trainer and managing director of tv news london

ROZ MORRIS

Broadcaster, Media Trainer & Managing Director of TV News London

Roz has many years’ experience as a broadcaster and media trainer.  She co-founded TV News London and was an accredited trainer for the Independent Television Association.

She is an expert on communications in the modern world and her book ‘The Visual Revolution Guidebook’, published in 2024, provides a valuable guide to skills required for success in the new visual economy we are all now living and working in.

Roz works with a wide range of clients in both the public and private sectors as well as many charities and non- profit organisations helping them to improve their public image and impact in the media. She  has media trained many local and national politicians, including at cabinet level. She has been a news reporter, and programme presenter for BBC TV and radio, ITN, Thames TV, and Tyne Tees TV, where she was the first woman in the North East of England to be the regular presenter of the weekly political and business programme. She also worked as a TV and radio correspondent for BBC Scotland, based in Edinburgh, and for RTE as a London Correspondent. She was a feature writer for the Evening Standard, a columnist for The Northern Echo, and a staff reporter and feature writer for The Observer and The Guardian, where she was the youngest reporter on both papers. She has been interviewed on BBC TV, BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service Radio, and Channel 4, and most recently on Paramount+, Talk TV, ITV This Morning and Apple TV +. She is the author of ‘The Visual Revolution Guidebook’ published August 2024.

Malcolm Douglas expert media trainer and consultant

Malcolm douglas

Broadcast News & PR Expert and Media Trainer

Malcolm has had a distinguished career as a top TV news and current affairs producer. He was previously Senior Editor and Producer at ITV’s breakfast show Good Morning Britain. He is the former Deputy Editor and Head of News at ITV Breakfast (GMTV). He is a director and co-founder of TV News London Ltd, and a broadcast news consultant, advising major companies, global charities, and PR organisations how to achieve the best coverage in print and on television and radio around the world, and how best to respond to the media in times of crisis. Malcolm started his career in journalism working with national and regional newspapers before moving into TV news. With his many years’ experience of dealing with global news and running national and regional TV newsrooms including GMTV, TV-am, Thames News and Tyne Tees TV, and working as a Senior Producer for ITV ‘This Morning’, Malcolm’s broadcasting expertise is unusually broad, covering news, politics, business, consumer, tech, lifestyle and showbiz.
expert media trainer and consultant

Roddy mcdougall

Media Trainer and Video Producer

Roddy is an expert media trainer with more than 15 years’ experience of working with top corporates, enabling senior spokespeople to handle TV and video interviews to the highest professional standards.  He has worked with Trinity Management Communications and for 10 years was Editor in Chief of Cantos, the online news service for business leaders, both part of Brunswick Group.  He was a senior TV news producer for 10 years working with ITN, and with breakfast TV stations TVam and GMTV.  His book, ‘No Breaks: A Lost Season in British Speedway’ was published in 2021.
Glen Oglaza expert media trainer and consultant

Glen Oglaza

Award winning Senior Reporter and Media Trainer

Glen has extensive media training and presentation training experience working with many blue-chip companies and organisations. He is a Visiting Professor and Executive Coach at INSEAD,RCDS, and RUSI. He has more than 25 years’ experience as a senior reporter and correspondent for major news organisations. He was a Political Correspondent for Sky News where he covered 4 general elections. Before that he was BAFTA nominated while working for ITN in nearly 40 countries, including extended stints in Washington, Moscow and the Middle East, and two years in Glasgow as ITN Scotland Correspondent. He won Royal Television Society awards for his reports on the fall of the Berlin Wall, The plight of the Kurds in the wake of the First Gulf War, and the Dunblane School shooting. He started his career in journalism as a local radio reporter and presenter in Newcastle upon Tyne and at IRN/Capital Radio in London. .  He has extensive media training experience working with many blue chip companies, NGOs and other organisations including The British Army, Royal Navy, Royal Air Force, and NATO. For many years, before the Covid pandemic, Glen was a visiting professor of communications at INSEAD, the world’s premier business school.
Kati Whitaker

kati whitaker

Award Winning Broadcaster and Trainer

A broadcaster for more than 20 years, Kati is a regular on BBC Radio 4. In recent years she has reported for Radio 4 programmes such as The World Tonight from South Sudan, Mali, Liberia, Kosovo and Ethiopia. Recent programmes include documentaries about the future of the Euro, McCarthyism and the spiritual challenges of mental health and alzheimers. She has won numerous awards including a Sony shortlist and One World Radio Award for her documentary on Rwandan widows. She was formerly a TV reporter for BBC Breakfast, Channel Four News and The Medical Channel, and she won the Silver Award for her work as presenter of BBC Radio 4’s disabilities programme, ‘Does He Take Sugar?’ . She works as a freelance broadcaster and as a media and presentation trainer.
Robert Cole, Crisis Communications expert

Robert Cole

Communications Consultant and Media Trainer - Expert on Crisis Communications

Rob started his career as a reporter on regional evening newspapers, and rose through local radio, into national and international television news. He was a news editor, field producer and bureau chief for news agencies, Reuters Television and Worldwide Television News for much of the 1990s. He has covered wars around the world. He spent many months in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia during the Balkan’s conflict, as well as reporting from Chechnya, Haiti, Rwanda, Somalia and Burundi.

Following his work with the news agencies, he moved to the BBC as a World Duty Editor, later working as a producer for both Panorama and the Six O’Clock News. He was also a field editor for the BBC and covered the Kosovo conflict, as well as managing events such as the World Cup in Japan in 2002. He left the BBC to join Sky News as a Senior Foreign Editor, later becoming Head of Foreign Planning.

He moved away from television in 2013, and was Head of News at Save the Children before joining the AMAR Foundation as Global Head of Communications. As a media consultant he has worked on contracts with the World Health Organisation, REACT Disaster Response, the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Green Football Weekend, and Action for Children.

He is an expert on crisis communications.

Jon Kaye expert media trainer and consultant

jon kaye

Experienced Radio Presenter and Media Trainer

Jon presents programmes for local BBC radio stations including Three Counties Radio and he was previously presenter of the weekly Programme Sunday Jewish Radio on Spectrum Radio.  He has been a programme presenter on London’s news and talk station, LBC Radio and a newsreader/journalist for Independent Radio News and Classic FM.  He featured on Channel Four TV’s series ‘Jewish Mum of the Year’ when he interviewed the two finalists.  He has presented and produced phone-in and news magazine programmes for BBC local radio stations throughout the UK.  He was Head of Presentation for a commercial radio station in the capital, communications consultant for a major charity, and he has many years’ experience as a media trainer and as a local councillor.
Simon Brooke expert media trainer and consultant

simon brooke

Print Journalist, Media Trainer and Presentation Trainer

Simon Brooke has over 25 years’ experience in communications training and development. As a freelance journalist and editor, he works for a wide variety of outlets on subjects including business and management, industry, health, the environment and property. Simon has worked for companies, charities and governments around the world to improve the way in which they communicate with the media.  His media, presentation and crisis communications training clients have included Visa, British Airways, RBS, Zurich Insurance, the NHS, the Stroke Association, IKEA and EDF Energy as well as various charities and professional associations.  
Marina Gask expert media trainer and consultant

marina gask

Journalist, Copywriter and Print Media Specialist

Marina Gask is an award-winning journalist, copywriter and press consultant. She writes for glossies, broadsheets and digital platforms, focusing on health, wellbeing and entrepreneurial success, and is a former Features Publisher and Health Commissioner at the Telegraph. A former journalism tutor at Goldsmiths University, she now she helps businesses with web content, blogs, press strategy and business books. She also offers blogging and press release workshops, working with clients such as Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Save The Children and the Fabian Society’s Women’s Network Mentoring Scheme. In 2018 she co-launched Audrey Online, a digital platform for entrepreneurial midlife women.
Henry Clark expert media trainer and consultant

henry clark

Senior Training Consultant For TV News London - Middle East Specialist

Henry has worked for some of the UK’s biggest broadcasters at senior level. He was the Foreign Editor of the UK’s first commercial Breakfast TV programme TV-am; a key figure in the launch team of the succeeding breakfast TV programme GMTV; Managing Editor at the international news agency Reuters and Senior Manager at ITN Consulting, specialising in programme launches and media training in the Middle East. He was responsible for the launch of the first Arabic-speaking live breakfast programme on Saudi TV, Sabah Saudia – training staff and developing programme content and production for seven months in Riyadh between 2009/2010. He has created new programme formats for Saudi TV morning, evening news and magazine programmes and organised a major training course for the 24-hour Al Ekhbariya news channel. Most recently he was responsible for running training courses in London and Muscat for staff at Oman State Television.

joanna gaudoin

Image Expert and
Managing Director of Inside Out

Joanna Gaudoin is a personal and corporate image expert.  She helps individuals and organisations work on their image and impact for professional success. Experience and expertise will always be vital but how and what we communicate with others about ourselves and the perception they form of us are pivotal for success. These skills help us differentiate ourselves positively and build credibility for better professional relationships, whilst also enhancing our confidence.  Through her one-to-one programme, running group training and speaking at events, Joanna helps individuals work on their appearance, body language and communication. She also works with people on their broader ‘people’ skills in different professional scenarios to achieve their goals for their own career success and the success of their organisation. Prior to running her own company, Joanna worked in marketing and consultancy for almost ten years with blue-chip clients such as Mars, Diageo, Toshiba and SABMiller.

lynne parker

Presentation and Communications Expert and Founder of Funny Women

After training as a journalist, Lynne spent the first years of her career working in women’s magazines for publishing groups Nat Mags and IPC writing about fashion and beauty topics.  She next worked in public relations and marketing along with stints as a TV presenter for cable television channel, Living.  She set up her own PR consultancy and managed many successful promotional campaigns for well known brands including Asda, W H Smith, The Prince’s Trust, Thames Water, Hyundai Car UK, Pepe Jeans, Umbro, Nike, Avon, Almay, Innoxa and Yardley.  She is an expert presentation trainer providing training and coaching based on stand- up techniques to improve self confidence and presentation skills for professional executives.  She is the founder of Funny Women and the Funny Women Awards and she believes humour can help both men and women become more confident.
Lisa Gilbe

Lisa Gillbe

Image Consultant

Lisa is a personal stylist and image consultant with over 10 years industry experience. She provides bespoke personal styling and personal shopping services for busy professionals who want to look their best either on camera or just every day. Lisa’s approach is friendly and relaxed, the services are tailored for each individual and she works hard to understand each client’s personal style which is essential to creating an authentic look for someone. Particularly if you are in the public eye, it’s good to wear the right colours for your skin tone and so important to feel comfortable and stylish in the clothes you wear to give you the edge. With a mix of technical training, creativity and over 10 years ‘in-the-field’ experience, Lisa works with her clients make sure they look current and up-to-date and enjoy the confidence that comes with that.” Specialities: Personal Styling, outfit building, style advice and image consulting for Men and Women. Services: Wardrobe Editing, Outfit Planning and Image Advice, Personal Shopping.
Anna Ostergren

Anna Ostergren

Actor and Executive Presence Trainer

Anna Ostergren is a LAMDA trained actor who successfully coaches C-Suite executives on motivation, presentation skills and confidence building. She worked as the acting coach for the acclaimed Netflix teenage drama series ‘Everything Now’ launched in October 2023. Her work in the corporate sector has included corporate finance, leading oil companies and Michelin star restaurants, as well as large Academic Institutions. She has also privately coached market leaders to develop their executive presence in meetings, pitches and presentations.
Her clients include BP, Pictet, ING, VISA, Menzies Accountancy firm, Cloud Pioneer, UEL, HLB International, The Diana Awards, Russell Investments, Marcus Waring at the Berkeley, The Gilbert Scott, Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck in Bray, Pearson College and Ithaca Partners, Boehringer Ingelheim, MFS and BlackRock. Anna was born in Stockholm, Sweden and educated in Rio de Janeiro and the USA until Secondary level. She was awarded her BA in English and Drama from London University. She continued her Post-Graduate training on the LAMDA Director’s course in 2005. She has since worked consistently as an actor, producer and director, in theatre, musical and opera, in both subsidised theatre and West End, including Opera North, The Globe Theatre and The Menier Chocolate factory.

Lydia Nicolaides

Lydia nicolaides

Office Manager and Camera Technician

Lydia runs the day to day administration of the TV News London office and provides camerawork and sound support for TV News London training courses. She studied media studies and production at the University of East London and after graduation found work as a radio presenter and trainer. Lydia also has a background in e-marketing, social media strategy and the music industry. She is a singer/songwriter and helps to promote and run music events for new artists, and has a podcast called Discover Her Music which showcases female artists from all around the around.

"We have been extremely impressed by the professional quality of the training provided by TV News London to our media spokespeople, particularly the high level of personal tuition and feedback. As a result, we have complete confidence to face the media and get our message across effectively."
Chief Executive
Confederation of Passenger and Transport
5/5
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