MEDIA TRAINING
Media handling courses
Understand how the media works, what journalists need and how to communicate with your audience.
Understand how the media works, what journalists need and how to communicate with your audience through Press Association Academy's media handling courses.
Strong relationships with journalists and media outlets are a huge asset when it comes to generating positive coverage for your organisation and shaping how it is seen by your audiences.
Press Association Academy's media handling courses cover how to develop and leverage media contacts, so you can build effective strategies for your communications through the media, pitch stories successfully to newsdesks and prepare your spokespeople to get your organisation's messages across print, online and broadcast.
Courses
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Media Handling Essentials
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Advanced Media Handling
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Crisis Communications
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Key Message Development Workshop
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Why train with Press Association Academy?
- Newsroom connected with national and international reach
- More than 50 years' experience training journalists and PRs
- All courses are expert-led by working media professionals
- Trainers have a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives
- Small class sizes allow for practical, interactive exercises
Our trainers
Meet some of the Press Association Academy trainers who lead our media handling courses.
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Bridgid Nzekwu
Managing Director
Bridgid leads PA's training company, Press Association Academy, which provides market-leading courses in journalism, media and crisis training, PR, communications and digital content. She's a former broadcast journalist and was PA's Director of Media Training prior to becoming MD. In 2018, she was named 'Outstanding Woman in Professional Services' at the Precious Awards, recognising more than a decade of excellence working with clients across the public and private sectors. With a career in national TV news spanning more than 25 years, she has been a producer, political reporter, specialist financial correspondent and anchor. She was a Finalist at the Business Journalist of the Year Awards in 2009, in her role as a financial reporter for Channel 4 News. She was a reporter and anchor for Channel 4 News for 10 years and has also presented news for the BBC, ITV and Channel 5.
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Pauline Haase
Head of Media Training
A highly skilled and experienced media trainer working with CEOs and senior leaders in all industries, Pauline has more than 20 years' experience in broadcast journalism including at BBC Breakfast, ITV News, This Morning, and Lorraine. She is an award-winning TV Series Producer/Editor.
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Liz Isemann
Media Training & Operations Manager
Liz Isemann is PA's Media Training Manager responsible for ensuring the smooth running of media training courses, planning all necessary logistics and client requirements. Liz's logistics skills stem from working as a project manager for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and her client liaison experience is essential to her role in account management for new and existing clients to PA.
I honestly thought that the whole day was fabulous!!! You really couldn’t have done anymore for us. The combination of practical exercises and feedback was particularly useful, it was a challenging day (in a very good way) in that we really had to think, learn and adapt quickly. I know the team are significantly better prepared for media interviews after this training.
PA Media Training were efficient, well organised and genuinely lovely people to deal with and, importantly for us, able to provide flexibility around our needs to create the bespoke training we required. I wouldn’t hesitate to use them for further training or to recommend them to other organisations.
The training scenarios are as real to life as you could possibly get. They took considerable time to research our current plans and issues and used these to design a series of true to life radio and TV interviews. The team is outstanding, and their expertise and knowledge has been invaluable. Book them – you’ll be glad you did.
The team is flexible, slick, well-resourced and overall simply first class. Their expertise and knowledge have been invaluable. I was delighted with our choice, so I’d have no hesitation in recommending them
The lifelike interview settings and tasks that PA Media Training deal in replicate perfectly the real-world feel of a tough media interview and help the delegates come out of the day feeling much more confident that they can play an active role in representing their organisation.
What a great session we had on Communicating with Impact. Bridgid shared practical techniques to enhance and develop our communications skills so we can present and speak publicly or to senior stakeholders with confidence and impact. I speak for my whole team in highly recommending Bridgid Nzekwu if you are after effective and fun communication training.
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Talk to the Press Association Academy team about dates, fees and bespoke training options.
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