The Media Landscape

It tends to be easier to find examples of media interviews that have gone badly wrong.

But we don’t just want to share the bad and the ugly with you in our media training blogs.

We also want to highlight those spokespeople who excel and deliver compelling interviews.

And our expert media trainers have been captivated by two excellent interviews.

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Media First are media and communications training specialists with more than 35 years of experience. We have a team of trainers, each with decades of experience working as journalists, presenters, communications coaches and media trainers.

Apologies – or the lack of them – never seem to drift too far from the top of the media agenda.

Accountability matters whether it is a business or an individual. But all too often, ‘sorry’ seems to be the hardest word to say.

The latest evidence of this is provided by Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey, who created a media training case study on how not to handle an interview when under scrutiny.

To read the original article this audio blog was created from, click here.

Media First are media and communications training specialists with more than 35 years of experience. We have a team of trainers, each with decades of experience working as journalists, presenters, communications coaches and media trainers.

Media First are media and communications training specialists with more than 35 years of experience. We have a team of trainers, each with decades of experience working as journalists, presenters, communications coaches and media trainers.

It’s everyone’s worst nightmare. You’re in the middle of a presentation or coming to a critical point in a media interview, and suddenly your mind goes blank.
What on earth were you going to say? Where are you going with this? What the heck comes next?
During our media and presentations training courses, delegates often ask: “What do I do if my mind goes blank?”
In this blog that has been converted to audio, we look at why our brains can sometimes switch off at vital moments.
And we explore how you can overcome this common problem and get your media interview and presentation back on track.

Media First are media and communications training specialists with more than 35 years of experience. We have a team of trainers, each with decades of experience working as journalists, presenters, communications coaches and media trainers.

What do two of the country’s leading banks, a powerhouse advertising company and high-profile business leaders have in common?

Well, they have all been making headlines over changes to working-from home-arrangements.

Alterations to home and hybrid working policies are increasingly gripping the news agenda and leading debate.

And how those stories are handled offers crisis communication and media training lessons.

Click here to read the original article this audio blog was created from.

Media First are media and communications training specialists with more than 35 years of experience. We have a team of trainers, each with decades of experience working as journalists, presenters, communications coaches and media trainers.