Whether you have good news to tell or a potential media crisis, how you communicate is critical to your reputation. Handling the media doesn’t have to be a nerve racking experience. Preparation is the key to your success. Preparation starts with tailored training from our BBC experienced, expert media trainers.

Media Friendly is one of the UK and Europe’s most respected Communications, Media Training and PR companies and was founded in 1998 by Andrew Carapiet and Moya Fillmore. Media Friendly’s mission is to empower executives, senior managers and other professionals with the media, PR and communication skills that will help them raise their profile whilst enhancing and protecting the reputation of their organisation.

Media Friendly has worked with over five hundred organisations over the last eighteen years and run training courses for over six thousand Chief Executives, Directors, senior Executives and senior Managers from many of the UK’s leading companies and organisations.

We have an impressive track record working for various Government Departments, including The Department of Health, The Home Office and The Department for Communities and Local Government.

Internationally, we have worked with the United Nations and many other global organisations. Within the UK we have a great deal of public sector experience – working with the NHS extensively, The National Assembly of Wales, over seventy Local Authorities, over forty Housing Associations and many charities. In the Private Sector, we have worked with blue chip companies from Financial Services, IT, Pharmaceuticals, Insurance, Healthcare, Construction, Retail and Consumer.

In 2008 Media Friendly moved headquarters from London to Grade II listed Cedar House in Marlow, Buckinghamshire to be in easier of reach clients across the country

Our Media Trainers not only understand the media, but they will also research your organisation, your issues as well as help you develop and enhance your key messages.

• Our highly effective Media Training combines theory with plenty of practical media interviews with video playback analysis.
• We tailor individual interview scenarios, specifically for you.
• We share our formulae for handling both crisis and success messages, dealing with aggressive questions from potentially hostile journalists and maintaining “grace under pressure”.
• You’ll take part in realistic media interviews with tailored scenarios and playback analysis to prepare you for real-life Print, Radio and Television Interviews. You will learn how to identify your key messages and how to promote the good news within your organisation.
• We alert you to the pitfalls, show how to stay on message and how to avoid those tricky journalistic traps that can so easily snare even seasoned media performers.