BRENDAN MARTIN
Brendan Martin is a journalist who writes for newspapers and magazines - including the Daily Mail - as well as media trainer with a reputation for thoroughness and quality.
He has been a magazine and B2B editor, as well as working on many top titles in the UK. i.e. TVTimes, Radio Times, Woman's Own, and many others. He is former features editor at TV Times
He worked for newspapers including The Times, Daily Express, The Independent, Irish Independent,Daily Mail and other titles.
He has been a journalism trainer and NVQ assessor since 1994, when he was part of a National Training Award team. As well as training journalists in reporting, writing and subbing in the UK, Ireland, USA and Asia, he runs courses in QuarkXPress, Photoshop, InDesign, Dreamweaver, web design and the Internet.
Brendan is currently a Visiting Lecturer in Print Production on the MA in International Journalism at City University. He also lectures at the University of the Arts in London.
ALAN GEERE
Alan Geere is a newspaper editor, consultant and academic with an international reputation for innovation and originality.
His 30-year career started on a weekly newspaper in England and has taken him around the world from Hong Kong to Canada via the US and Afghanistan.
He edited newspapers in the UK and Canada before taking over The Tribune, then Thomson's biggest newspaper in the US.
He led the title to the accolade of Arizona Newspaper of the Year before taking his skills on the road, devising and delivering a project to newspapers across the country.
As editor of the Trinidad Express, the largest newspaper on the Caribbean island, he worked with a newsroom of 100 journalists to reach a new level of professionalism.
Alan has helped journalists in Romania, China and Vietnam cope with the demands of a changing world and led a project in Afghanistan to introduce civil society journalism to a country ravaged by war.
Alan is currently Journalism course leader at the University of Worcester. He lectures widely, specialising in training and newsroom management and has an MA in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester.
