Adey is executive audio producer at The Athletic

Alana is a senior freelance journalist and the previous lifestyle and features editor at OK magazine.

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Angela is a Welsh journalist and author. Her memoir Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter was shortlisted for the 2023 Jhalak Prize.

Alex is lead commentator for Channel 4’s Formula One TV coverage. He won Broadcast Sport Commentator of the Year 2022.

Amar is Deputy News Editor at Sky Sports News, working across platforms to support the newsgathering operations.

He was included in MHP’s 30 Under 30 Journalists To Watch (Sports) in 2024 and shortlisted for Sports Journalist of the Year at the Asian Media Awards (2024). 

Amar has a background in local news and legal journalism, as well as experience in business and music journalism. Amar is also an ambassador for the NCTJ.

Amelia is a freelance features writer for publications such as The Guardian, Wired, Vice, the New Statesman, and The New York Times.

In 2023, Amelia won Best Feature at the Freelance Journalism Awards.

Anna is a BBC News correspondent based in the Netherlands.

Creator of Dutch News: from the Cycle Path, and co-founder of the Bike Bureau.

Anthony is news editor at Sky Sports News.

Archie is editor of the Guardian’s First Edition newsletter.

Ayshah Tull is an award-winning Presenter and Broadcaster currently working at ITV News.  

Presenting and reporting on the biggest stories of our time.  

Her BAFTA nominated news programme that she presented, alongside black colleagues who fronted and worked behind the scenes was described as groundbreaking.  

She’s been a journalist for over 10 years, and started her on screen career presenting BBC Newsround. 

Belinda is Senior Duty Editor for BBC Sport TV News.

Ben is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, producer & director.

Beth is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, working in news for 25 years. Currently freelance after taking a career break from spending many years at the AP as Head of Production, one of the things she likes best is to collaborate to improve skills. 

Recent projects include work for the Broadcast Journalism Training Council, helping to ensure students start their journalism careers able to successfully tell good stories. 

Starting off in domestic broadcast, working on the Big Breakfast News, the News Channel and Channel 4 News at ITN, Beth then moved to the BBC where international news became her focus. 

Always up for a new challenge, Beth moved to Associated Press. During her time as Head of News Production, she found her sweet spot in news – where technology and storytelling come together. While working closely with technical colleagues, she led a 20-strong production team through several iterations of digital transformation. 

During her time at AP, she was also part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team whose work won an award for Public Service journalism for a story that resulted in around 2,000 fishing slaves being freed from captivity in Southeast Asia. 

Beth is political editor at Sky News.

A former staffer at The Herald, Billy is a founder and co-editor of The Ferret, an investigative website in Scotland. He’s reported from Iraq, Gaza, Pakistan, Russia and Syria, among other places, and freelanced for dozens of media globally including The Guardian, Politico, Al Jazeera, The Sunday Times, and the BBC. Billy has investigated issues such as femicide, human trafficking and far right extremism. A 2017 expose of Scottish Dawn revealed its links to the banned neo-Nazi group, National Action. Scottish Dawn was later proscribed. Billy’s prizes for his journalism​ include four Scottish Press Awards, two Amnesty International Media Awards, and a European Union Journalist Award. He contributed to Routledge’s academic book – Journalism, Power and Investigation.

Calum is a RTS award-winning producer and director who has made documentaries on stories such as the Celtic Boys Club scandal, the death of Sheku Bayoh in police custody and on failings in our secure mental health care estate. Calum is currently the Assistant Editor for Long Form Journalism at BBC Scotland, making documentaries under the investigative strand Disclosure and podcasts for BBC Sounds.

Carl is a correspondent and presenter at ITV Wales.

Cathy is a travel writer and editor with more than 10 years experience.

Chris is defence and security editor at the Daily Mirror.

Ciaran is Scotland correspondent for Channel 4 News. He can also be seen presenting the programme from London, Leeds and a rooftop spot in Glasgow. Ciaran is a passionate advocate of bringing journalism closer to under-represented communities and has built his career in Wales, the North of England and now Scotland, winning several major awards along the way.

He has had a varied career, with a reputation for unearthing exclusive stories as well as delivering engaging interviews and reporting on major events around the world.

Claire is a senior news editor at BBC.

Claire is BBC political reporter for Merseyside.

Claire is editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan UK.

Craig Chisnall is development editor at The Athletic.

Dan is journalist & commentator at BBC Radio Lancashire

Daniel is Investigations Editor for ITV News. His award-winning work includes investigations into social housing, end of life care and child poverty.

In 2022 he was named Royal Television Society Specialist Journalist of the Year. Daniel has presented the ITV News podcasts ‘Will Trump Win?’, ‘What You Need to Know’ and ‘Calling Peston.’

He previously worked as a Political Correspondent based in Westminster. In 2018 his reporting on poverty in the North West of England was nominated for The Orwell Prize.

Dan Wright is an executive producer at Times Radio with a 20 year career in international and UK journalism. He won Emmy Awards at CNN for coverage of the October 7th attacks, the war in Ukraine and investigations in Iran and Sudan. At Channel 4 News he was home affairs producer and won RTS award for investigations into UK policing. He lives in North London and is a Tottenham fan though its never made him happy.

Daniel is the BBC’s foreign deployment editor, running some of the BBC’s most senior foreign correspondents and field producers.

Daniel is an experienced editor and regularly runs cross platform, multi team news operations abroad, covering breaking news of the Ukraine war, the Turkey Earthquake, the Paris Attacks in 2015, and large set pieces such Davos and the  World Cup. He has been in the BBC for over 20 years working as a radio and Tv journalist initially in Scotland and then abroad in the Middle east, Africa and several years in Russia.

Darren is the assistant editor of Daily Mirror.

David is a senior journalism leader and manager with nearly 20 years’ experience working in newsrooms, including at AP and the Telegraph.

David is BBC news science editor turned Independent Consultant.

Debbie is currently Editor for Channel 5 News, ITN.

Previous roles include Commissioning Editor at Channel 4, Executive Editor BBC News Commissioning, Editor BBC Radio 1 & 1Xtra Newsbeat.

Derek is editor at The Wire.

Dominic is a commissioning editor at The Athletic having joined the sports website at its launch in 2019 as a senior writer.

He had previously spent 20 years covering football on The Guardian. The job as a beat reporter took him through spells in the north-east, on Merseyside and, from 2007, back to the capital as London football correspondent, where his time was largely preoccupied with the managerial merry-go-round at Chelsea.

He has covered Champions League finals, World Cups and European Championships since 2002, and was also fortunate enough to follow the England national team through five major tournaments, from South Africa to Russia.

Ellen is a freelance football reporter for BBC Radio 5 Live Sport and Final Score, commentator for the WSL world feed and presenter for Manchester City Football Club. She started out at BBC Radio Cambridgeshire aged 18 working across their sport coverage and presenting the stations BBC Music Introducing show which gave her opportunities to present and create content for both Radio 1 and 6 Music.

Emma is a BBC Business Correspondent, reporting widely for television, radio and online. She joined the business unit in 2008 and has more than 30 years’ experience in broadcasting in a variety of roles from the UK and abroad.

Eve is a freelance news, features and investigative journalist primarily covering social affairs and inequalities.

Fadumo is a reporter at Sky Sport News.

Frankie is a BBC News Correspondent & Presenter.

Fiona is one of the country’s top journalists and presenters on BBC.

Gary is BBC’s Washington correspondent.

Gary is an author, broadcaster and was editor-at-large for The Guardian.

Gary is a football commentator at Sky Sports.

George is the Preston North End reporter for the Lancashire Post.

He has covered PNE for four-and-a-half years and worked for his city’s local newspaper since August 2023, having previously reported on the Lilywhites for LancsLive. A senior journalist, George graduated from the University of Central Lancashire with a first in Sports Journalism in 2020.

Giovanni is an Emmy nominated former part time visiting journalism lecturer City University. Former Exec Producer at BBC Africa Eye and senior producer at Al Jazeera.

Gordon is senior reporter and presenter at STV News.

Gwyn is Chief Correspondent for Newyddion S4C.

Hannah is a senior journalist and producer at the BBC News at One and BBC Breakfast – the UK’s most watched morning programe. Hannah is responsible for writing bulletins, producing VTs on the most legally and ethically complex stories, as well as leading a team of journalists whilst the programmes are on air.

Hannah is a journalist at The Guardian. 

Hardeep Matharu is a London-based journalist and writer. She is the Editor of Byline Times – the independent investigative news site and monthly print newspaper covering ‘what the papers don’t say’.

Her work focuses on the forces that shape us: identity, politics, and media.

Hardeep started her career as an award-winning local reporter and has more than a decade’s worth of experience working across regional, national and independent media. She trained as a journalist after reading Law at Cambridge University.

She also has extensive experience across policy, politics, justice and communications work. Hardeep is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Harriet is a reporter and presenter at Sky Sports.

Helena Wilkinson is a BBC News Correspondent with more 20 years’ experience as a journalist.

She reports for tv, radio and digital platforms across the BBC, both for domestic and world audiences.

Helena is an experienced court reporter and has covered multiple complex high-profile cases.

She also has experience in covering big royal stories, including the death of the Queen and the coronation of King Charles.

Before working at the BBC, Helena worked as a reporter at LBC radio and ITN.

Hewete was born and raised in London but has lived and worked in France, the US and Kenya. She  started her career interning at the U.N and Worldbank.

Hewete was at the BBC in 2008 as a journalism trainee and has spent most of her career in the World Service. She’s produced for BBC Africa both from London and as a field producer across Africa. Hewete left the BBC in March 2023.

From 2016-2018 she was Future Talent Senior Producer for WS Languages running entry-level trainee schemes for bilingual journalists. In this post she developed career workshops for existing staff that she went on to deliver to hundreds of staff within World Service languages and across Africa. She recently spent two years based in Nairobi as Training and Talent Manager for the region and has sat on the steering committee for BBC Global Women in News since 2014. She currently is Senior Journalist Team Manager on the 50:50 Equality Project. 

Hewete is passionate about Diversity & Inclusion. She has recently been appointed a trustee for the Hamlin Fistula Foundation – a charity that aims to eradicate obstetric fistula in Ethiopia. She recognises the importance of both getting diverse voices on air, and ensuring the teams behind the news reflect the diversity of our audiences. Working across Africa with the BBC and in 2014 reporting from a refugee camp on the South Sudanese border, Hewete saw first-hand the importance of a diverse reporting team when women were eager to tell her their stories. It is an experience that will always stay with her.  

Hewete believes ‘we are all responsible for what our industry looks like.’ 

Photo credit @sarahhosneyphotographia 

Holly has been a radio enthusiast since the age of 4 and a full time Broadcast Journalist for the past 15 years. During this time, Holly worked at a variety of local radio stations, before moving to Global in London in 2013.

Holly is now Deputy Managing Editor, LBC News and Global’s newsroom overseeing brands including LBC News, LBC, Heart, Classic FM, Smooth and Capital. She has worked on major stories like Brexit, the US elections and the Coronavirus pandemic, as well as reporting on Prince Philip’s funeral, the birth of Prince George and several London Marathons.

Having been on the first cohort of John Schofield Trust mentees in 2012, Holly is honoured to be taking on the role of mentor. She looks forward to continuing her work with this incredible organisation.

Hywel is a Welsh television news correspondent with the BBC Wales.

Imogen is head of investigations & special projects at ITV News.

Indigo Stafford is a pop culture and entertainment reporter. She presents a weekly entertainment news bulletin on BBC Scotland’s Reporting Scotland News at Seven. Here, she interviews some of the biggest names in Scotland and beyond, keeping viewers up to date with all the latest entertainment news and what’s on over the weekend.

Indigo also runs her own popular pop culture page called IndigoReports on TikTok, which has over 200,000 followers and attracts millions of viewers every month. The platform covers everything from TV and film news to the latest red carpet looks. In the past Indigo has worked for OK Magazine and STV News.

Jacqueline is a London based presenter, producer and journalist.

Jade is an award-winning freelance journalist with more than 20 years’ experience in broadcasting, newspapers, magazines and online journalism.

James is a Times columnist, covering society, ideas and culture.

James is Liverpool FC reporter for The Athletic.

James is a Producer  Sky News.

Jenny is the Liverpool Echo’s digital night editor.

Joe is director of research at Hope Not Hate.

John is the Hibs correspondent of the Edinburgh Evening News.

John has been working as journalist, mainly in sport, for nearly 30 years, initially at the BBC and more recently at CNN.

Josh is LGBT & Identity Producer and reporter for BBC News, having previously worked as senior planning producer at BBC Breakfast. Prior to moving into broadcast, he was a senior reporter for the Liverpool ECHO where he won Young Journalist of the Year at the Regional Press Awards. 

During his career he’s covered a variety of different beats – from showbiz and celeb news to politics and social affairs – but it was back in 2017 when he went undercover to shine a light on so-called ‘conversion therapy’ that he discovered his passion for LGBT news. 

Most recently, he produced a documentary ‘Fleeing Afghanistan: Free to Be me” with exclusive access to a group of Afghans who fled their country to escape The Taliban. 

Judith is special correspondent for BBC News and is a regular contributor to the BBC’s national and international news programmes.

Karin is a journalist and co-editor of Scottish media co-op The Ferret and reports on social affairs and health inequalities.

Kate is a freelance photojournalist and regular Guardian contributor who works for the international media, NGOs and corporate clients.

Katya is the BBC’s Europe editor.

Kaylee is a broadcast journalist at BBC.

Kerr is chief international correspondent at NBC.

Kesewaa is a freelance journalist specialising in culture.

Kevin is a multi-award winning documentary and podcast producer/director with BBC Scotland’s investigations team.

He has more than a decade of experience working across a range factual television for both BBC and Channel 4.

Kevin is senior editor at The Athletic.

Kirstie is a BBC News journalist who specialises in social affairs, inequality and telling the stories of women.

Krishnan is the lead presenter of Channel 4 News.

Krupa is a presenter and journalist at BBC World Service & Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour.

Laura is a Senior Field Producer for the Al Jazeera Media Network. She is responsible for pitching, planning and executing feature and (breaking) news stories in the field across Europe and beyond.

Lauren is a fashion and beauty writer and editor.

Leah is a newspaper editor at The Orcadian.

Lisa Summers is the Health & Social Care Correspondent for BBC Scotland.

Lisa has worked at the BBC for over twenty years and has had a varied career across TV, radio and digital output.

She’s made a number of investigative current affairs programmes and has worked in sport, topical & feature programming as well as news.

Linda is the news editor at Leicestershire Live.

Award-winning northern correspondent for Daily Mail and co host of The Trial Podcast and Parents vs The Internet.

Lora is a Senior Journalist at BBC News.

Lucy is the editor at Community Times Kensington.

Lucy is a Social Affairs Correspondent with the BBC.

Lucy is LGBTQ+ correspondent at the Thomson Reuters.

Lucy Woodham is a presenter on BBC News TikTok.

As one of the first people to have the role, she has covered everything from the US election and presidential inauguration in Washington DC, to GCSE and A-Level results day, to Beyoncé concerts.

Before that she was Editor of youth media site The Tab, where she worked for five years.

Luke is currently a digital editor at The Guardian.

Lyall is a news editor at Sky Sports News.

Madison is the FT’s special investigations editor. She leads a team of reporters investigating misconduct and abuse of power across business, politics, housing, education and beyond.

Since joining the FT 12 years ago she has held a number of correspondent positions covering asset management, tax and accounting. She joined the investigations desk in 2019 after delivering two award-winning investigations into sexual harassment at the elite Presidents Club charity dinner and the defenestration of advertising mogul Sir Martin Sorrell.

Maris is a senior journalist at BBC.

Mark Daly is an award winning investigative journalist for the BBC. He has reported around 30 documentaries on subjects ranging from racism in the police, the Stephen Lawrence case, historic abuse in the Catholic Church and in football, sport doping and corruption, miscarriages of justice, the Paradise Papers and many more.

Mark has been the recipient of many journalism prizes including from BAFTA, the Royal Television Society, and the Foreign Press Association. He lives in Glasgow, is the Investigations Correspondent for BBC Scotland and regularly reports for Panorama.

Mark is former Head of Training at the BBC and ex MD of Press Association Training. Mark has worked as a newspaper, TV and radio journalist and was a programme editor at BBC Radio 5 Live. He’s coached several hundred BBC reporters, correspondents and presenters including many household names. Mark is now semi-retired doing some journalism mentoring and development and awards judging. He’s an external examiner for Bournemouth University’s Broadcast Journalism course.

Maryam is a data scientist at journalist BBC News. She holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of Oxford, and enjoys using her coding skills to find news in messy datasets. Her recent investigations have uncovered algorithmic bias in the passport application process, housing discrimination against benefits claimants, and illegal offers of lip fillers to under-18s. In 2021 she won the Royal Statistical Society Award for Investigative Journalism.

Matt is News Editor on ITV News Home and Foreign desks.

[Photo credit to Harper Collins]

Maurice Hamilton has attended more than 500 Formula 1 Grands Prix since 1977 and worked as motor sport correspondent for The Guardian, The Independent and, for 20 years, The Observer. He was commentator and summariser for BBC Radio’s Grand Prix coverage between 1989 and 2010.

The author of more than 30 books on the world of motor racing, Maurice writes for magazines and websites across the world. His recent publications includes ‘Racing Legends’, a series of children’s books on F1 for Pan Macmillan Paperbacks. His latest book on the Greatest Formula 1 Cars will be published by Harper Collins in September 2025.

Maurice’s work also covers editorial consultancy and ghost writing for sports personalities, including Damon Hill, Linford Christie, Eddie Jordan, Martin Brundle, Max Mosley and Bernie Collins.

Maya is an assistant editor at The Guardian

Micah is a freelance photographer.

Mike is a football writer and podcast producer and presenter at The Athletic.

Miles is a staff writer at The Londoner.

Miranda is fitness editor at Stylist Magazine.

Mollie is home news correspondent at Sky News.

Monica is senior editor CNN Digital.

Monika is an award winning presenter and reporter for BBC News.

She also reports on documentaries including for BBC Panorama, Radio 4 and The World Service.

Nada is an award-winning International Correspondent for CNN, based in London.

In 2024 she was listed on Forbes 30 under 30 list for media this year.

Nancy is football writer at The Athletic.

Naomi is an NCTJ-trained senior journalist at BirminghamLive, covering breaking news, community and human interest stories in the UK’s second city.

She has been nominated for a joint investigation into the scandal of child poverty in Birmingham and previously won an NCTJ award for her investigation into the sale of skin lightening products in Coventry.

She was also praised for her reporting on issues around visas for Afghan refugees in Coventry.

Previously, Naomi was the Coventry Telegraph’s first Facebook-funded community reporter.

She has been a mentor with the Trust since 2024 and has worked as a journalist for six years.

Nick is a journalist and filmmaker.

Nick is staff writer at The Athletic and author of ‘Who Owns Football?’.

Nina is an award-winning broadcaster & journalist. Former anchor at CNN.

Nuala presents BBC Woman’s Hour from Monday to Wednesday.

Olivia is an independent consultant and award-winning journalist who advises news media executives.

Olivia Petter is an award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster based in London. She is a columnist at The Independent and has also written for The Sunday Times, The Guardian, British Vogue, Stylist, and Grazia, among others. She hosted The Independent’s chart-topping Millennial Love podcast (later renamed Love Lives) for six years. In 2023, she was named one of Forbes’ ‘30 under 30’. She wrote her first book, Millennial Love, in 2021, which was followed by her debut novel, Gold Rush, in 2024.

Owain is programme and digital Editor at ITV Wales.

Paul is a broadcast journalist, presenter and documentary maker.

Richard is a multi-award winning journalist and broadcaster. He has more than 30 years experience with the BBC in radio and television. He has covered multiple major events at home and abroad for BBC North West Tonight, BBC Breakfast and BBC News. He has been a regular contributor & reporter for BBC Match of the Day, Football Focus and Final Score. Richard has presented The Super League Show & worked as a reporter & producer for the Olympic Broadcast Service.

Ros is BBC News’ Analysis Editor.

Rosie is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. Former senior news editor at The Guardian newspaper,

Secunder is foreign correspondent at Channel 4 News.

Serena is deputy editor at Dazed.

Shehab is correspondent and presenter at ITV News.

Sophie is podcast producer for The Sports Agents by Global.

Sophie Williams is a music writer and broadcaster. Former New Music Editor at NME, she is now Staff Writer at Billboard UK and a freelancer for other global titles, alongside the proudly independent Green Man Festival. She is also a Mercury Prize judge.

Stefani is a sports presenter and reporter at STV.

Stephanie is head of Economics and Government at Bloomberg News.

Steph is a multimedia senior journalist working on in-depth stories & investigations for BBC Yorkshire.

Steph is north of England news editor for Sky News.

Tom is data and forensics correspondent at Sky News.

Tom is Founder and COO at Fathm. Fathm is an independent media lab and news consultancy.

Vickiie is head of SEO at Reach nationals.

Quentin Sommerville has spent the last ten years as the BBC’s Middle East correspondent and is based in Beirut. Before that he was in Afghanistan and China.

He started his journalism career at the shipping newspaper Lloyds List. 

Rich is a presenter on the BBC World Service and anchor on BBC World News TV, reporting major international stories for the BBC’s global audiences and reacting to live and breaking news.  

Rich previously covered Western Europe, reporting some of the most significant events to shape the continent in generations, including the migrant crisis, the Scottish Independence Referendum, terror attacks in France and Belgium, and the UK’s Brexit vote. 

Robyn is a news anchor and broadcaster. With more than 20 years in television and radio, much of it as a freelancer, Robyn has worked in multiple countries for many TV broadcasters, including ITN, the BBC and TRT World, as a presenter, correspondent and producer.

She presented the news for radio stations including Classic FM and Magic, and has hosted shows on LBC News and Share Radio. She has also worked as a lecturer for UAL, helping teach and train undergraduates in broadcast journalism.

From mentee to mentor, Rob was part of the JST scheme a decade ago. Having focused on building a career in Wales, Rob is now the National Correspondent for ITV Cymru Wales and presenter of the weekly programme Sharp End. He has made several long-form programmes on subjects as diverse as male suicide, down syndrome and, more recently, one called ‘King & Cymru.’ 

Rob’s focus on original journalism and distinctive storytelling has helped him win multiple awards, including Welsh TV Journalist of the year on three occasions. 

Ronke is a Senior Correspondent at ITV London News and has mentored for the Trust numerous times.

Ruth Green is a freelance journalist specialising in legal and social affairs.

Sam Gelder is a news editor and reporter based in London who has worked in national and local news for eight years.

Most recently he was news editor for openDemocracy, and before that news
editor at HuffPost UK and chief reporter at the
Hackney Gazette and Islington Gazette.

He has worked as a
freelance reporter at The Guardian and PA.

He specialises in housing and gentrification, social justice and community journalism.

Sanya is an investigative journalist specialising in digital spaces.

She currently works for The i Paper as an investigations correspondent and has previous spent 6 years at Sky News.

Sejal is a seasoned journalist and storyteller with extensive experience creating compelling content for iconic BBC platforms such as Radio 5 Live, BBC Asian Network, and BBC Woman’s Hour. From insightful radio programs to thought-provoking podcasts, her passion lies in crafting narratives that inform and inspire. Currently, she brings this expertise to Passion Pictures as a Development Documentary Producer, contributing to impactful, award-winning documentaries that captivate audiences and drive meaningful change.

Shingi is North of England correspondent for Sky News, formerly of The Sunday Times.

Sian is an award-winning journalist. She is currently news editor at The Independent, formerly at Metro UK for four years.

Vicky is a reporter with the Bureau of Investigative Journalism’s Bureau Local team and one of our 2022 mentors. Her career began predominantly with black-led publications in Birmingham before landing a trainee position at the Daily Gazette in Colchester.

Teaching and mentoring has been an unofficial job role for Vicky since her first job in retail and one which came naturally. It also led her to being a learning support assistant at a secondary school, where she was encouraged to pursue teacher training. As someone who struggled to gain mentorship herself, being able to give that support is particularly special.

Victoria is a journalist, newsreader and broadcaster at the BBC.

Vincent is a freelance correspondent and presenter on BBC and Channel 4.

Will Hayward is an investigative journalist and author based in Wales. He covers Welsh politics and is a columnist for the Guardian.

Over his career Will has won 18 awards for his journalism and is widely seen as one of the leading voices in Welsh affairs.