Congratulations to Stephen Douglas – former employee of TV News London - and son of Roz Morris, Managing Director of TV News London.
Stephen won two prizes at the 2008 ITV News Awards held in Savoy Place, Central London. He won the Bronze Award for Scoop of the Year, and also the Bronze Award for News Feature of the Year. In addition, Granada Reports, the programme he works for, gained the Silver Award for Best Regional ITV News Programme. Stephen, pictured left, is seen at the awards ceremony with his father Malcolm Douglas, Deputy Editor of GMTV. Last year Stephen won the top prize of ITV Young Journalist of the Year 2007.
"I’m really pleased that I’ve won again this year and very glad that I have the opportunity to work on so many important stories for Granada", Stephen says.
Published
17 March 2008
Communicate, an influential magazine for the corporate communications sector, features Roz Morris, Managing Director of TV News London in its latest edition. Roz is pictured and quoted in a feature on media training.
“According to Roz Morris, managing director of training agency TV News London, even the most positive stories need to be finessed by media training.
“Merely surviving an interview and getting a few facts in is not good enough – no story tells itself without hard work,” she says. “Good news can sound like bad news or smug news if the spokesperson has not tested their recipe and adjusted the ingredients to achieve the best result. Coming across as positive, professional and normal in an interview is not as easy as it looks.
“Some people will work for days on a presentation to a conference with an audience of 500 people, but still believe that five minutes preparation is enough when talking to a radio, TV or web audience of a million – or even a hundred million.”
Without media training, she says, executives can be side-tracked into talking about issues which are not to their advantage and sounding less professional than they are.”
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Published
20 December 2009
How will the media - whether books, films, music, radio or television - be funded in future?
As Google and other digital businesses are already steadily eating away at traditional media income streams like advertising and royalties, future sources of income were one of the main themes discussed at the 2009 Somerville Media Day which was chaired by TV News London’s Managing Director, Roz Morris (pictured far left above).
Speakers pictured above included (from left to right) - BBC broadcaster and TV News London media and presentation trainer, Kati Whitaker (standing next to Roz), media and entertainment law expert, Rebecca Swindells from Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP, Novelist, Maggie Gee, Former Chief Creative Officer of Endemol, Peter Bazalgette, and broadcaster, Rebecca Wilcox.
Following in the tradition of Somerville media days, all the speakers are Somerville graduates except Peter Bazalgette whose wife Hilary is a Somervillian.
The confrerence was held in the Margaret Thatcher Centre at Somerville College, Oxford.
Published
17 December 2009
Roz Morris and a Camera Technician ran a one to one TV Media Training session for Sonia Abrams, MD of Sparkle and WOW at her offices in Cockfosters in North London, in preparation for her appearance on Wedding Breakfast on Wedding TV.
Here's what Sonia told us after her course:
“I had always imagined what it would be like to be on TV but when the appointment was confirmed for me to appear on Wedding TV I was full of panic. Luckily a few weeks prior I had met Roz from TV News London at a networking meeting in London, so it was a no brainer –give her a call.
Roz came to my office and had already prepared some questions that the presenter was likely to ask me. We did a run through and watched it back and did a number of run throughs. The advice and knowledge shared by Roz was amazing. From how to sit, style of clothing to wear and colour choice were all covered.
The interviewer actually asked most of the questions Roz had practised with me during training. Roz even contacted me after to give feedback. The feedback and training was invaluable and even gave me the confidence to do an unplanned TV interview which was part of a one hour feature for our wedding event staged at Alexandra Palace.”
Check out the Sparkle & Wow wedding event at Alexandra Palace video here
Published
10 October 2009
Roz Morris, Managing Director of TV News London, (front row centre above) recently attended the Annual General Meeting of the European Professional Women's Network, which was held in Nice, France. Roz, who is Vice President of City Women's Network represented CWN.
The AGM was attended by 18 senior professional women representing 12 different women’s networks from cities across Europe including London (both CWN and EPWN London) Paris, Lyon, Nice, Brussels, Madrid, Barcelona, Vienna, Copenhagen, Oslo, and Amsterdam. There were also representatives from Athens and Frankfurt where new networks are being set up.
In addition to the formal AGM, the main topics and priorities were decided for the coming year. They include the third bi-annual study (performed by Mercer) of the representation of women on boards in European Top 50 companies; a programme to attract senior business women and give opportunities to connect them with peers Europe wide; an expansion of the Network’s proprietary collaborative networking platform; along with continuing engagement on the EU Commission’s Network for Women in Decision making in Politics and Economy. Finally, many of the city networks operate highly-sought after mentoring programmes.
The event was hosted by the Nice - Côte d'Azur branch of European Professional Women's Network at the headquarters of TEAM Côte d'Azur, which promotes inward investment to Nice and the Alpes Maritime region.
Published
25 August 2009
