Nick Kotch Nick Kotch is a former Reuters Africa bureau chief who now works as a journalism and media trainer, a correspondent and a consultant across the continent. A Briton aged 53, he has also contributed to National Geographic, observed presidential elections in Cameroon and written the text of a photographic book on Nelson Mandela. A graduate of Oxford University, he speaks fluent French and passable Italian.  Since leaving Reuters in 2004 after 27 years as a correspondent, editor and bureau chief, he has trained journalists and communicators in 20 African countries for a variety of international and African clients.  Working in English or French his courses cover subjects as varied as governance, labour relations, business and sport.  Clients include "Reuters Foundation, the International Labour Organisation, UNDP, the IAJ and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung in South Africa".

Nicholas Phythian He worked for Reuters for more than 20 years as a reporter, a sub-editor, a bureau chief and as an editor with news editing and management responsibilities.  Political and general news is his speciality.  With Reuters, he worked in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.  Before that, he worked for the French news agency AFP.  He chose early retirement in 2003 to spend more time with his young family. He has run or helped run news writing courses for the Stanley Foundation (Beirut 2005 & 2006); UNICEF (Male, Maldives 2006); Global Youth Reporter Programme (Dubai 2006) and is fluent in French.

Roger Jeal After working for Reuters in London, several key European financial centres and Asia between the mid-1970s and 2000, mainly as a business journalist and desk editor, Roger is now a freelance editor, journalist, trainer and business English teacher. Wrote a weekly column for a Russian financial magazine, Kompania, for a while. Has acted as an editorial consultant/editor for SeeNews, an English-language newswire covering mainly business news from southeast Europe, and consultant for LiveWell, a Singapore-based health care magazine, and the UK-based Environmental Law Foundation’s newsletter, ELFline.  Apart from English, has reasonable French and Dutch and understands German. From 1994 to 1997 ran Reuters Foundation's London-based Writing Business News workshops and has taken charge of them again since 2001. Training abroad, for the Foundation and other organisations, has taken him to Bulgaria, Dubai, Egypt, India, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Russia, Serbia and Trinidad & Tobago. He has also trained exiled journalists in the UK.

Peter Mosley In the course of a long career with Reuters, Peter Mosley held positions including correspondent in Houston, Texas, during the Apollo moon landing programme, correspondent and chief representative in southern Africa, based in Johannesburg, and News Editor for Asia, based in Hong Kong. In London he was variously an editor-in-charge of the central news desk (World Desk), head of the U.K. reporting bureau, Science Editor, Projects Editor and Editorial Operations Manager with global responsibility.  His last job was Features Editor. Since retiring from full-time work with Reuters in 1992, he has directed training programmes for the Reuters Foundation and remains active as a freelance journalist.

Robert Hart Correspondent, news editor and regional editor for Reuters in a career of more than 30 years.  Overseas assignments in Southeast Asia (including Vietnam as a war correspondent), Latin America and Europe (UK, Germany and Spain).  Fluent Spanish and German, moderate French and some Italian.  After retiring in 2002, began working as a consultant for Reuters Foundation.  Experience has included in-house courses in London, training Cambodian journalists in Phnom Penh, Gulf News journalists in Dubai and assignments on various environmental themes for the World Bank and the Com+ Alliance of Communicators for Sustainable Development.

Anatoly Verbin Anatoly Verbin is a journalism trainer and media consultant, creating and running workshops in different countries in English or Russian.  He was previously a correspondent for Reuters for 16 years working in the former Soviet Union, where he went the way from a translator to news editor in the Moscow bureau covering 12 former Soviet republics and the Balkans. Since 2002 he has designed and conducted training courses in Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Russia, Kazakhstan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Algeria, Uzbekistan and Ukraine.  Clients include Reuters Foundation,  the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), European Journalism Centre, Eurasia Foundation, USAID, Transitions on Line, RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies, Internews and individual media clients. He has also conducted media training for some OSCE mission staff in the former Soviet Union and worked as a media adviser to the OSCE in Montenegro in 2002.  He speaks English, Russian and Bulgarian and lives in Bulgaria.

Keith Stafford Trained over a thousand foreign correspondent for the international Reuters news agency and now teaches classes worldwide in many aspects of journalism, newsroom management, sub-editing and clarity in written communications.  He specialises in financial journalism courses built on case studies ( visit www.financialjournalism.co.uk ) and is a certified trainer for the Institute for Global Ethics.   Keith is a member of the British National Council for the Training of Journalists journalism board, the external examiner for print journalism at Sheffield University and a member of the British Society of Editors training advisory committee.   He worked for Reuters for over 30 years as a foreign correspondent, senior editor and training manager and now occasionally acts as a senior editor/trainer for news services run at major sporting events such as the Olympic Games and the Asian Games.   He has a knowledge of French, German and Japanese.

 

Paul Iredale He has worked for the Foundation since retiring from Reuters in 2001, training journalists from around the globe in political and general news, election coverage, climate change and news safety. He has run workshops from Guwahati to Guatemala and in 2006 spent a month training at the Teheran daily Hamshari. He also teaches journalism at London’s City University. In a 27 year career at Reuters he covered South Africa under apartheid, the Shining Path insurgency in Peru and the guerrilla wars in Central America. He was a desker in Hong Kong, bureau chief in New Delhi and reported from Kosovo and Belgrade during the Yugoslav wars.