Karen Ainley

Karen is a former TV presenter and reporter with BBC Look East, and also presented documentaries for the BBC 2 Matter of Fact series. She started her journalism career on the Braintree & Witham Times, before moving to the Colchester Evening Gazette as the Health Reporter.

She spent four years as a radio reporter and newsreader with BBC Essex before moving into television. She is a co-founder of Mosaic Publicity and has been media training captains of industry for over a decade.

As a graduate in Publishing and Computer Studies, she  loves all things techie, and is heavily involved in podcasting.

Kevin Bentley

Kevin spent more than 20 years with the BBC, the latter half as a TV reporter with BBC Look East and a parliamentary reporter and producer on the BBC’s East at Westminster programme.

He has worked on Radios 1,2 and 4 and was a sub editor on Ceefax. He has also worked for numerous local radio stations, including BBC Essex.

He is a past National President of the Round Table organisation and has been passing on his media training and presentation skills for over a decade.

Irene Kettle

Irene has been a journalist for more than 30 years.  She was Editor-in-Chief of Essex County Newspapers, Editor of the four edition Evening Gazette and the Essex County Standard. During her time working in newspapers Irene also worked as a reporter, sub-editor and group news editor.

She has experience of  NHS communications having worked as a Head of Internal and External Relations for a Primary Care Trust.

John Venables

John is a journalist with many years’ experience in BBC radio, television and online news as a reporter, producer, specialist science and environment correspondent and journalism instructor. He is a CIPR Approved Trainer and Excellence Awards judge. He is a former Press Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and the author of four books about the media.