Michael Dodd Media - journalist training as well as presentation training, media training, international speaking, media skills, broadcast journalist

Michael Dodd trains journalists in print and broadcasting skills. He helps develop journalistic skills from scratch. And he works with high level journalists to further develop and polish their performance.

Teaching can be done on a one-to-one basis. Or it can be commissioned by organisations to take place in groups – large or small. Learning and development programmes can involve other specialist journalists and trainers.

Michael’s students at the University of Westminster won first, second and third place in the radio section of the Young Broadcast Journalist of the Year Award. The awards are conducted by the UK’s Broadcast Journalism Training Council and sponsored by the BBC, ITV News, Sky News, Channel 4 and GCap Media.

Michael received an award from the BBC when his University of Westminster post-graduate radio students won the gold, silver and bronze medals in an investigative journalism competition to mark the 25th anniversary of the Radio 4’s File On Four programme.

Two of Michael's students also won the Young Broadcast Journalist of the Year Award in 2005 when the prizes were presented by Dermot Murgnahan.

Further details of the latest award are in the media release below.

Radio Journalist of the Year Award Winners at ITV ceremony in December 2007 - from left: first prize winners Kay Leslie and Zoe Uminski, ITV news presenters Geraint Vincent and Mary Nightingale, Michael Dodd, third prize winner Brooke Johnston and second prize winners, Charlie Girling and Rebecca Donevan.

MEDIA RELEASE: Westminster students sweep prestigious national awards

Postgraduate students from the University of Westminster have swept the board at a prestigious student journalism competition this week – by taking home first, second and third place in the top category.

Five MA Journalism students scooped prizes at the Broadcast Journalism Training Council Awards – all in the Young Radio Journalist of the Year category

The University’s MA Journalism course was also presented with the Award for Excellence at the ceremony at ITV News on December 13. It is the only course to have won the award twice in the competition’s six-year history.

Michael Dodd - the student’s radio tutor on the MA in Broadcast Journalism course - said: “All of the winners have already gained good positions in radio and television and these awards should set them up for further career advancement and to position themselves to do further work investigating issues which are crying out for close examination.”

The winning entry, a documentary about the so-called ‘postcode lottery’ of breast cancer patients’ chances of access to potentially life-saving drugs, was produced by Kay Leslie and Zoe Uminski, who both now work as producers at Sky News. It was inspired by Fiona McDiarmid, the Sky News presenter who died from the disease in 2002. Kay is a past winner of the Fiona McDiarmid annual bursary.

The second prize winners, Rebecca Donovan and Charlie Girling, explored the highly sensitive issue of what should and should not be done to save very premature babies. It looked at the adverse consequences for some of the babies who are kept alive after being born exceptionally early.

The third prize winner, Brooke Johnston, is currently working as a producer for Channel 4 in the United States. Her entry was on the exploitation of women in Thailand by the American military forces while on recreation leave in the country.