The Foundation is run by a small core staff at our head office in Cardiff. But we work with a highly experienced dedicated team of over 60 media specialists who we can call on whenever the need arises.

Together we manage:

• overseas courses, workshops and seminars - often in the offices of a local media organisation, the British Council or an NGO;

• communication projects abroad for NGOs, media enterprises, UN agencies, and governments;
  

• annual summer courses in advanced reporting skills for broadcast, print and online journalists at our UK headquarters;

• tailored UK courses and study visits designed for individual partners;

• the production of multi-media materials (video and print) on specific issues like HIV/AIDS, energy and the environment.

The Thomson Foundation welcomes the challenges and opportunities offered by the digital revolution and is finding an increasing demand for a multi-media approach - for journalists who feel equally confident in any medium. But it still offers tailor-made courses developed to meet the specific needs of its partners.

Until recently our work was managed by two divisions, one for print and one for broadcast. But to exploit the opportunities offered by new media and respond to the increasing number of requests to develop skills across all areas we have recently appointed a Head of Training to combine the divisions and strengthen our capacity.

The courses cover every aspect of radio, television and online journalism, from reporting and production to media regulation ­ for more details see Our Work. In the end, though, it is not just our expertise and experience that we can pass on. More important still, we aim to share those independent media values we have learned and applied during our own careers and which, for more than four decades, Thomson Foundation media specialists have helped to spread around the globe.