Kevin Burden Email & Phone Number

Cardiff, Gb

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Managing SJN's new Media Leaders Climate Solutions Fellowship, which will equip, inspire and empower editors and publishers across Europe to integrate solutions journalism into their climate coverage. We'll be helping targeted newsrooms to focus on positive deviants and actionable insights in areas including private sector climate strategies, climate resilient investments and operations, business sustainability including fashion, climate finance, the built environment, and labour, among other topics.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Media Leaders is my media development consultancy, which has delivered media production and training projects in more than 50 countries worldwide.I've worked with the BBC, Al Jazeera (Qatar), RTÉ (Ireland), World Press Photo (Netherlands), BAFTA (UK), the International Federation of Journalists (Brussels), the Arab States Broadcasting Union (Tunis), the Conference of Mediterranean Broadcasters COPEAM (Italy), FOJO Media Institute (Sweden), IREX (US), Internews (US), Jordan Media Institute, B4 Communication (Switzerland), the NHS, the UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), the former UK Department for International Development, the US Department of State, the International Labour Organisation (Geneva), Bundesamt für Naturschutz (German Federal Ministry for the Environment), the Centre for Empowering Patients and Communities (Ireland), UNICEF Middle East and North Africa, OSCE (Austria, Poland and Azerbaijan), Uninettuno the Open University of Italy (Rome), the Asian College of Journalism (Chennai, India), the Royal Agricultural University and the Universities of Bristol, Coventry, Southampton Solent and the West of England.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Media Training Station CIC is a not-for-profit social enterprise which supports journalists and news organisations in places where access to vocational skills training is limited or non-existent - often in countries in crisis, conflict, or undergoing transition.MTS has secured grants from the US government to support journalists in the Middle East; from the Norwegian government to support sports-related development in eastern Africa; and from the British government to combat gender-related violence among refugee communities and to support the development of community radio initiatives among minority ethnic communities in Georgia. We have developed an online postgraduate course in Nigeria, and assisted media development initiatives in Rwanda.During 2023 we have devised an online training programme for journalists in a highly-closed society and delivered face-to-face training to humanitarian leaders in the Middle East.

Stockholm, Sweden

Kicking off a programme funded by the Government of Sweden to support the development of self-regulatory and regulatory frameworks for the media in south-eastern Asia. Participants from government, media and academia are mentored by leading experts to develop their own initiatives in self-regulation and media development.

Strengthening Somali Media

I worked with Fojo Media Institute and International Media Support of Denmark on the establishment of a new five-year project to support and strengthen the media in Somalia.

Chennai Area, India

During the 2013-14 academic year I taught two classes in television news journalism. My students are now popping up on screen on India's leading news networks.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for:• Ensuring quality of training delivery on media development and communications projects worldwide.• Course design and evaluation.• Recruitment and training of trainers.• Devising and editing resources for trainers.• Online and blended training programme, iLearn.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Assistant Editor for the launch of a new popular current affairs magazine programme.• Produced and directed 25 x 10-minute non-fiction films in a wide variety of genres, including investigative, personality, heritage and humorous.• Executive produced an award-winning documentary about the inventor of the jet engine.

London, United Kingdom

• Recruited, trained and managed team of 100+ journalism & production trainers working in 20+ countries in Eastern Europe, FSU, Africa.• Delivered training in journalism, newsroom management and training for trainers in Russia, Belarus, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Serbia, Kosovo.• Wrote, co-wrote or edited successful proposals for large-scale training projects in several difficult markets (Angola, Belarus, Bosnia, Macedonia).• Carried out risk assessment of major EU-funded project in Bulgaria.• Edited journalism handbook, now translated into 5 languages.• Devised BBC iLearn (www.i-learn.co.uk) online learning system; wrote and edited content; presented it at international seminars.• Won Commonwealth Broadcasting Association Rolls-Royce Award for Effectiveness in Training.

Ekaterinburg, Russia

• Designed and delivered 3 x 10-week courses in television journalism in Russia and Ukraine• Devised and delivered courses in Television News, Television Production, Editorial Leadership, Reporting Politics, Science and Environmental Journalism in Russia, India, Nigeria and Sri Lanka• Reviewed the newsroom operations of several TV stations• Trained trainers in Russia, Bosnia, India and Sri Lanka

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Built a dedicated radio news team; recruited, trained and appraised staff.• Directed news and news programme output. • Produced coverage of special events, including elections, council debates, Millennium night and country shows

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Investigated and reported original stories on environmental matters for BBC television and radio. • Reporter-presenter on several half-hour documentaries. • Chaired public debates which were filmed for broadcast.• Popular speaker and chairman at public events.

Carlisle, United Kingdom

• Produced and presented radio news bulletins and news, music, youth and sports programmes. • Made half-hour radio documentaries and lengthy personality profiles.• Generated highly-rated coverage of the nuclear industry which was twice mentioned in Parliament and highly commended by the Industrial Society.• Produced several debates in front of a large audience.• Reported live and for series and documentaries from France and Belgium.

Stavanger Area, Norway

Reporter, writer and translator at Norway's English-language newspaper. Presenter of the weekly news show on Radio Vest.

Ba (Hons) 2:1, Economic And Social Studies, Modern Languages And European History, 2:1

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