When tragedy strikes, it has become commonplace to see witnesses capturing the scene on their smartphones. But a growing number of people are licensing those clips, and turning a profit from gruesome or tragic events. One of the most-viewed viral videos of this year occurred when an IT manager from Michigan happened to be visiting […]
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Can you deliver an effective and compelling ‘Interview Performance’ of a Life Time ? That of course is a question nobody can give a perfect answer to. Effective and compelling interviews are complex beasts. We’ve all seen many ‘out take’ programmes on TV – reporters ‘corpsing’, interviewees completely stuck for words and what might have been a
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Our photo shows, the SNIPEF team being put through their paces at their recent media training day. SNIPEF – The Scotland Northern Ireland Plumber Employers Federation is a long standing membership body for the plumbing industry in both countries. Some very complex issues were discussed and the team can look forward to future media engagement with confidence
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With Brexit now a reality, what if folk singer Ralph McTell had penned his anthem ‘Streets of London’ in 2016, rather than the late 60’s ? How would the line ‘Yesterday’s papers telling Yesterday’s News’ now sit? Today, he may well have written “Today’s Paper’s telling Yesterday’s News? The Brexit result is yet another example of
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Mastering the media interview is a bit like having a cookbook. Find the recipe that tantalises your palate, but look very carefully at the ingredients…and then make a decision! Do you have them all, or do you need to pop into the supermarket to buy that special ingredient that will ‘make’ the dish? Or, do
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Note the name – Merlin ERD. Scottish Media Training now knows them very well indeed! The Perth-based company specialises in ERD – Extended Reach Drilling – and it works with the oil and gas industry to show that fields that were perhaps considered ‘exhausted’ in terms of the viability of getting the hydrocarbons out of the seabed,
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The third month into 2016 and we’re busy dealing with a dozen enquiries for media and presentation training. What’s more, already this year, we’ve trained groups of staff from BIG organisations like APS – the Association of Project Safety, had three media training days with staff from NHS Health Scotland, had our third day with The
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For ‘Media Trainer’ read ‘Interviewee”, as Radio Scotland’s Kaye Adams, turns the spotlight on Scottish Media Training’s very own Devin Scobie to discuss media training our politicians. The subject of media training politicians from across the UK political spectrum was brought sharply into focus on BBC Scotland’s “The Kaye Adams Programme” recently by none other
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Scottish Media Training has been genuinely humbled by the surge in interest. Since the turn of the year, in our various Edinburgh Media Training and presentation training courses and as Springtime beckons, we’re set to be busier than ever! Already, eight organisations are set to put their staff members through a Scottish Media Training Course in
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Another year passes and another begins, yet three enquiries for media training in the last couple of days gives us an indication that there is still a large appetite amongst charities and other organisations to ensure their staff are fully engaged in the entire ‘media’ process. The demands of 24/7 communication, particularly in the digital and
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