About Us
Kate Betts set up Kate Betts Media in 2006 to help organisations deal with the press. Kate's experience includes working as a researcher, producer, reporter and news editor for the BBC and a reporter for commercial television.
She has also worked as a press officer for a large local authority and a reporter for a regional daily paper. Kate is also a BBC-trained video-journalist, capable of shooting and editing features for TV. She currently also freelances for BBC Radio 4 and teaches print and broadcast journalism at the University of Sheffield Journalism Department.
Kathryn Reaney has wide experience in radio, television and newspapers. She has been a reporter and presenter for Yorkshire Television's Calendar News; an assistant producer on BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour; a reporter and producer for BBC Radios Humberside and Sheffield, and a district news editor for the Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph.
She is a qualified trainer and currently teaches journalism and public relations at Sheffield Hallam University.
Maggie Ford is a RADA-trained actor and director. She has worked in theatre and television, including as a director on the BBC's Eastenders and Doctors.
She teaches at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and has been running Springrites, a speaking and presentation skills business, for the last nine years.
Deborah Wain is an award-winning journalist and writer, with more than 20 years' experience. She has worked as a writer for Channel 4's "Hollyoaks" and had an afternoon play broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2009 and is currently writing another play due for broadcast in 2011. She devised and writes an on-line soap opera for the NHS, which was runner up in the Best Use of New Media category in the Communicate09 awards. In 2007 Deborah was named joint recipient of the prestigious Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism run by Private Eye and the Guardian. She is also a former Yorkshire Press Awards winner.
Matt Robson is a freelance cameraman, editor and film-maker. His credits include Life of Grime, Newsnight and Look North.
He has an MA in documentary film and television. Matt currently teaches camera techniques and editing at the University of Sheffield Journalism Department.
Mary Murtagh is an award-winning print and video journalist who spent 12 years working for some of the biggest regional papers in the UK. For the past five years she has been a specialist print, radio and television media trainer for the private and public sector. She has trained everyone from neighbourhood police officers to NATO admirals.
Mary holds a stage 1 EMFEC teaching certificate.