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Who's Who
Mediae have a small, core staff who are permanent employees of the company. They also have a number of associates with whom they work on particular projects and who offer specific extertise, in areas such as radio script writing, media research, video direction and print production.
The full time Mediae staff comprise:
David Campbell is director of Mediae and is based in Mediae’s Nairobi office.
259 Miotoni Road, Off Ngong Road,
Karen, Nairobi.
Phone: +254 20 882693, Fax: +254 20
882270, Mobile: +254
722 720 235
email: mediae@africaonline.co.ke
He is a media specialist in natural resources, rural livelihoods and development in Africa. He has twenty years’ experience, working with DFID, Governments, NGOs, the commercial sector. He has planned and implemented effective communication strategies in a variety of African countries, using video, radio and print. He has produced several video-led training materials and has been involved in the privatisation process of a government media production unit in Kenya. Most recently, he has managed a number of long-term media projects (eg: Gulu radio, Northern Uganda), as well as produced various videos (eg: CAPE) and has sought new business for Mediae.
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Kate Lloyd Morgan is co-director of Mediae and is based in Mediae’s English office.
Turley Farm, Delly
End, Hailey, Near Witney, Oxon OX29 9XA
Phone/Fax : + (0)
1993 868470
email: mediaetr@aol.com
She began her career with Voluntary Service Overseas in Nigeria and more recently has worked under the auspices of DFID, both as technical cooperation officer and also in a consultancy capacity. She has experience in rural and social development issues, complimented by practical expeirence in the use of radio, and in particular radio soap opera, as a development tool. She has conducted research into ways of improving the communication of natural resource research findings, in collaboration with Reading University, resulting in a set of best practice guidelines. Most recently she has co-managed a number of Mediae radio projects (eg: Gulu, Northern Uganda, Zambezia Province, Mozambique) and will be overseeing a new radio soap initiative in Tanzania.
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Chris Garforth is Professor of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development at the University of Reading. While he is not a permanent member of staff at Mediae, he is a co-director. His PhD research on the dynamics of agricultural land use in Nigeria first stimulated an interest in how rural people develop the knowledge and acquire the information they need to make decisions. He then worked for the Ministry of Agriculture in Botswana, setting up a media research unit in the Agricultural Information Services. From there, he moved to Reading where he has been teaching and researching in communication for over twenty years. He has carried out consultancy assignments in over 40 countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe and is currently involved in projects to reform public sector extension systems in Bangladesh and Uganda. Recent and current research projects include an assessment of the equity effects of reforms in extension, an analysis of factors in the uptake of pest management practices, and demand assessment for resource conserving technologies.
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Jane Newman is a strategic planner with extensive experience in developing successful
communications strategies. She has worked
at several advertising agencies in the
UK and USA including Boase Massimi and
Pollit and Chiat/Day and most recently
her own agency, Merkley Newman Harty.
She has worked on a wide variety of
commercial accounts as well as campaigns
to stop drug abuse, uphold human rights
and protect children at risk from poverty.
She is an expert at understanding the
attitudes and motivations of target
groups and at synthesizing this information
down to a strategic focus that will
create significant behavior change.
She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement
Award by the APG in the USA in 1999
and a similar award by the APG in the
UK in 2001. In 1999 she retired from
advertising and spent two years traveling
in SE Asia and Africa. In 2001 she started
the Sereoplipi Nomadic Educational Trust
in Kenya, a trust dedicated to improving
school attendance among the nomadic
Samburu people. In 2002 she joined Mediae
and has been working on a variety of
issues including prevention of HIV/AIDS
among adolescents and the use of indigenous
knowledge of plants to cure human and
livestock disease and help alleviate
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James Kimaro is the Mediae radio magazine producer, working on the Tembea na Majira project. James has extensive radio programming and presenting experience, having worked for over six years as a broadcaster for rural communities in Kenya. James has been trained by teams from the BBC and from the International Institute of Journalism in Berlin, Germany. He has produced and trained Kenyan and Somali broadcasters in numerous radio productions. Most recently he has trained a radio production team working for the NGO "Search for Common Ground" in Burundi, who are launching a radio soap opera in Kiswahili.
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Rose Kinoti is the Mediae soap producer of "Tembea na Majira". She is in charge of the annual planning of storylines, writing of entertaining and top quality scripts, synopsis writing, recording and editing of episodes. Rose has also worked on audience research and gathering feedback, as well as a number of training consultancies with radio production teams from other African countries: namely, Uganda, Kenya, Somalia, Burundi and soon in Tanzania.
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Trustees |
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Katrina Phillips
Shani
Grewal
Elaine
Pyke
Katie Newman
Kaye
Tuckerman
Simon
Brint
James Hynes
Rick Wells |
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Chryssie Cobbold
Mr. Alex
Duncan
Katrina Wood
Carole
Wainaina
Sally Christensen
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