For 35 years Media First has delivered bespoke media and communication training across the world, both face-to-face and online.

Our team of journalist trainers based in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Australia and London are here to  help you and your organisation manage the media better.

 

We help people develop their communication skills, knowledge and confidence to successfully handle the media and other audiences to their own and their organisation's benefit.

Our extensive experience in producing bespoke media, communications and presentations training has helped establish us as one of the leading communication training companies.

We provide people with skills and techniques to execute strong interviews, control difficult and hostile interviewers and deliver memorable sound bites. We do not create media trained talking robots but rather help people to find their own words and manage challenging questions in line with your corporate messaging.

Our experienced trainers are current working journalists based both in Asia and internationally and will ensure participants are taught the most up to date and relevant skills and techniques to manage the modern-day media. 

We select the training team based on their media and sector knowledge of your industry but also ensure we pair the right team of journalist trainers based on delegate personality and objectives. These tutors are based in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Australia and London.

The ultimate guide to crisis media management in Asia

Download your free copy of ‘The ultimate guide to crisis media management in Asia’.

This eBook is for you if:

  • Coronavirus has thrust you into the media spotlight and you need help managing the media right now.
  • You want to review your crisis management and communications strategy in the light of how your business has, or is, dealing with Coronaviorus.
  • You fear that one day a business-stopping crisis could affect you or your business.

All our courses, whether online or face-to-face, are bespoke.

And we believe that communications training works best when delegates get to put their learning to the test – that’s why all our courses are practical and involve plenty of interviews on realistic subjects and scenarios.

Whether the training is carried out online through Zoom or Microsoft Teams, face-to-face in a studio or at your offices, these interviews are played back for instant review and feedback. And they can also be accessed by the delegates after the course – via a secure login - so that they can continue to learn and improve alongside our additional ‘out of the classroom’ learning options.

We’re pleased to be into our fourth season of media training with Media First. The training really helps to remove some of the fear and apprehension our young players have about talking to external journalists, and it gives them the key skills they need to prepare for and give a more confident, professional interview. The players have grown in confidence and we’ve seen a huge improvement in their communication skills all round as a result.

— Chelsea FC

Media First has worked closely with Vodafone to deliver high-quality bespoke training for several years. The attendees have without exception found their training to be useful and relevant when dealing with the media.

— Libby Pritchard, Senior Public Relations Manager, Vodafone

Thank you so much for organising my media training yesterday. It was probably the most productive day’s training I have ever done. I can highly recommend it to others.

— Carolyn Taylor, Clinical Research Fellow, University of Oxford

— 6 January 2015 by Media First

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Marcus Ryder

A BAFTA award winning journalist who has worked across the whole spectrum of news and current affairs programmes for over 25 years.

Yvonne Chan

A versatile, multilingual presenter and host, Yvonne has a wealth of useful tips for presenting and speaking confidently in public.

Sian Jones

A professional TV news anchor and host, Siân is highly experienced as a presentations, media and communications trainer.

Our Training Team

Our courses are delivered by current working journalists, along with PR and communications professionals - all of whom are expert and experienced trainers.

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Our Clients

We have a huge amount of experience in over 40 different sectors such as automotive, charity, finance, healthcare, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, retail, travel and many more. Here is a small selection of our clients.

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