Guy Black of the Telegraph Group plc chairs the CPU Media Trust board of Trustees.  All the Trustees have long experience of the media both in the UK and the Commonwealth.

The Trustees

Lord Black of Brentwood

Lord Black of Brentwood

Lord Black of Brentwood is Deputy Chairman of the Telegraph Media Group (publisher of The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Telegraph). He has been with the group since 2005. Previously he had been Director of the UK Press Complaints Commission, the independent body responsible for administering the system of newspaper self regulation. He is now Chairman of the Press Standards Board of Finance and additionally a Trustee of the Imperial War Museum and of the Royal College of Music. He lives in London.

Dieter Loraine

Dieter Loraine


Dieter Loraine is co-founder and Managing Director of Albany Associates – a strategic communications company that specialises in helping to strengthen the resilience of the media and civil societies in fragile and conflict affected countries.

He had a successful career in the Royal Marines, retiring in 1995 as Assistant Director of Public Relations for the Royal Marines in the UK Ministry.  Since that time he has garnered over 20 years’ experience of strategic communications, institution building and media and regulatory development, helping to establish and advising more than twenty media and press councils across South East Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

 

 

Derek Smail

Derek Smail

Derek Smail has been involved for more than 35 years in the UK and Commonwealth media industry.

Born in Britain of New Zealand parents, as well as heading the family weekly newspaper business on the Scottish Borders for some 20 years, he published the London-based weekly, New Zealand News UK for New Zealand’s global diaspora as well as the weekly SA Times for the South African diaspora.

For the last 18 years he has been Executive Chairman of African Media Investments Ltd, which was established to identify and develop independent media opportunities in Southern Africa. He is a Founder Director and shareholder of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (Pvt) Ltd, publisher of the Daily News, which is now Zimbabwe’s leading independent daily newspaper and remains ever true to its masthead slogan of ’telling it like it is’. He has also been a director and shareholder of two weeklies in Botswana, the Guardian and the Midweek Sun.

Derek Is now based in Christchurch, New Zealand, from where he remains in close touch with media matters particularly in Zimbabwe, where the Daily News continues its vital role to report the news without fear or favour and to shine lights in dark corners.

Ian Beales

Ian Beales

an Beales, for 20 years a leading UK regional newspaper editor, is now a media consultant specialising in self-regulation of the press and newspaper design. He was founder editor of the CPU magazine, CPQ. He is secretary to the UK Editors’ Code of Practice Committee and author of The Editors’ Codebook, the official handbook to the UK Editors’ Code, and of Imperfect Freedom, a study of press self-regulation in the Commonwealth.

He has acted as a consultant in Cape Town, Colombo, Accra, Nairobi, Mombasa, Barbados, Tblisi, Madrid, Samoa, Tonga, Beijing, Shanghai, Guanzhou, and Chongqing.

John Spencer

John Spencer

John Spencer is Group Managing Editor of the Press Association, the national news agency for the UK and Ireland.

A journalist, John joined the PA in 1999 as Managing Editor after 20 years in regional newspapers, including 15 years at The Star, Sheffield, where he held a number of senior editorial and management posts. Over the last five years he has had responsibility for setting up and growing the PA’s two editorial production centres in India, one in Mangalore in the south of the country and the other in Pune, near Mumbai. These centres now employ more than 230 people, enabling the company to provide 24/7 services to newspapers, broadcasters and media players in the digital space.

His relationship with the CPU goes back to 1986 when he won that year’s Harry Brittain scholarship for British journalists and spent an extended period on newspapers in New Zealand.

Philip Harding

Philip Harding

Philip Harding is a journalist, broadcaster and media consultant. Previously he was a senior executive and editor at the BBC where he held a wide variety of senior editorial jobs. He was Director of English Networks and News for the World Service, Controller of Editorial Policy (responsible for the editorial standards of all BBC output and wrote the BBC’s editorial guidelines), Chief Political Advisor, editor of news programmes at Five Live, editor of the Today programme and deputy editor of Panorama.

He is a Trustee of the Press Association news agency and of the One World Broadcasting Trust. He is a Fellow of the Radio Academy and of the Society of Editors, where he is also on the Advisory Board. .

He writes for the Guardian newspaper on the media and on politics. He also broadcasts on Radio 4 as a reporter and as an interviewee. He has also lectured at Wharton Business School on open media and innovation.

Recently he has helped devise and is facilitating the BBC’s College of Journalism’s course for new editorial leaders dealing with issues such as impartiality and defining the ‘public interest’.

He has also worked as consultant in Argentina and Taiwan on public broadcasting and political policy.

Lindsay Ross

Lindsay Ross

Lindsay Ross worked for the Commonwealth Press Union for 13 years. Originally employed by the CPU in 1997 as Press Freedom Director with a brief to broaden the scale of press freedom and media rights activities across the Commonwealth press, she was subsequently appointed Executive Director in August 2003. She was the only woman and the only journalist to hold that role in the organisation’s history.

For many years she lived in East Africa where she worked as a freelance consultant in both the public and private sector. During a 30-year career in the media she has worked as a freelance journalist, in public relations and as a press officer for international organisations.

She has lived, worked and travelled extensively in developing countries particularly South and South East Asia and Eastern and Southern Africa, focusing on political and social issues.