How to get your message across in a media interview. People who have done media interviews often tell us during our media training courses that they’ve been surprised by how speedy the interview process is.“I was only on for a few minutes and then they said, ‘Thanks very much,’ and it was over,” one course [...]

Last week the Financial Times (FT) published a Special Report on Asia-Pacific Innovative Lawyers. As a specialist media training company for law firms, we were particularly interested to see what issues were covered, how they were covered and who got a mention. “Innovative” is a great word for the media by the way – and [...]

We provide media training and presentation training for architects and designers and so we were particularly interested in an interview that celebrated designer Thomas Heatherwick gave on the Today programme this week.  He’d been invited to talk about his radical new approach to car design. It didn’t start well.  But that wasn’t Mr Heatherwick’s fault [...]

As we explain in our specialist media training courses for architects, what you shouldn’t say or do to a journalist during an interview is as every bit as important as what you should say and do. So, here are our top media interview no-no’s – plus some suggestions about what you should say or do [...]

Participants in our specialist media training courses for architects who have already had some experience with the media often complain that when they read the article that they’ve given a quote for the journalist they spoke to has not got their message and somehow grabbed the wrong end of the stick.  It’s annoying and disappointing [...]

In the letter, which is signed by film stars Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton, author Malorie Blackman and radio DJ Trevor Nelson, Sir Henry acknowledges the “legitimate worries and concerns” that people have, adding: “We know change needs to happen and that it’s hard to trust some institutions and authorities.” Today asked two guests to [...]

ITV News this week revealed the first pictures of the new Downing Street media briefing room. The aim of this new facility is to improve the media relations operation of the government. You might not have £2.6million to spend on a studio but what does the new White House style media briefing room tell us [...]

This morning BBC Breakfast explored the continuing fallout from the murder of Sarah Everard by talking to Jenny Barksfield, Deputy Chief Executive of the PHSE Association and Dr Jane Krishnadas, a Senior Lecturer in Law at Keele University.  The “one plus two” as it’s known in the trade, meaning a presenter plus two guests, is [...]

Lawyers who have done our media training courses for law firms and who have had some experience with the media often mention this to us.  They’ve done an interview and then clicked on the outlet’s website to read the article only to find that the journalist they spoke to hasn’t got their message.  We’re talking [...]

Speaking on Good Morning Britain on International Women’s Day Sarah Brown was thrown a number of questions by Piers Morgan that had little to do with what she was booked to talk about – and that risked drawing her into controversy.  We provide media training for charities and prominent spokespeople.  Charities like the fact that [...]