Vernon Mann Chief Executive

Vernon Mann founded the Company in 1996 after a long and successful career in journalism encompassing newspapers in the UK , Radio and TV in Australia , but mostly with Independent Television News of London, UK where he worked for 22 years.

During that time he held posts as Home News Editor, Foreign News Editor, and American Editor, based in Washington DC , and spent 15 years as a foreign correspondent.

During that time Mann reported on conflicts and their humanitarian aftermaths in many places around the world including Afghanistan , Sudan , Lebanon , Israel , Bosnia , China , and revolutions Romania and Iran where he witnessed the departure of the Shah and the arrival of the Ayatollah.

While based in Hong Kong for three months he compiled an acclaimed special report for ITN on the spread of Aids in Asia which involved case studies in Indonesia , Thailand and China.

He reported on a huge range of stories on the UK domestic scene and won a Royal Television Society award for his coverage in Northern Ireland.

Christopher Squires Cameraman/Trainer

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Christopher Squires is probably one of the most experienced news cameramen in the UK having covered a good percentage of the major news events in the world over the past 30 years from Zimbabwean Independence to the handover of Hong Kong.

He now works as a cameraman/ trainer but still accepts overseas news assignments, the most recent one being the Iraq war where sadly, while he was there, one of our reporter colleagues, Terry Lloyd, was killed. Squires returned in 2004 to film an investigation into the reporter's death and returned there again in November 2005 to film a special report for the Trevor McDonald Tonight program about British troops in Basra.

Amongst a lifetime of assignments he was based in Africa for two years covering the lead up to Zimbabwean Independence. Other African stories included the Ethiopian famine – he flew in with the UN from Nairobi and refugee/human rights stories in Rwanda, Uganda, and Zaire.

He won an Emmy award for his coverage of the Mozambique flood disaster.

More recently he covered the Macedonia/Kosovo crisis.

Squires also has widespread experience elsewhere in the Middle East, particularly Lebanon and Iran.

In our media-training courses he uses fully professional high-end broadcast equipment helping to make our interview training sessions as true to life as possible.

His technical advice to interviewees, from an award-winning cameraman's point of view, is invaluable.

Others

We have a network of top working journalists who regularly input into our courses.