Gavin Hill

Speaker: Gavin Hill, Broadcast Journalist

Gavin Hill began his journalistic travels hoping to follow in the footsteps of Alan Whicker, John Simpson and John Pilger.
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Gavin will give an insight into the fascinating world of TV journalism and explain why PR practitioners need to become more savvy to secure broadcast coverage for their clients.

Speaker Profile:

Gavin has gained a great deal of broadcast experience around the world.His credentials include:

Gavin Hill's career in broadcast journalism has spanned fourteen years and the globe.He trained in print media at a news agency in Manchester, England before joining local Piccadilly Radio as a reporter/newsreader.In 1990 Gavin became a staff TV journalist at Plymouth-based Television South West.

Over the next few years he went on to work as an on-screen reporter at Yorkshire TV in Leeds and then Meridian Broadcasting in the South East of England whilst also producing and reporting for ITN in London at weekends.

In 1994 Gavin was appointed Senior Producer, based in Singapore with the new TV division of the Associated Press news agency (APTV) - the world's oldest and largest newsgathering organisation which supplies urgent news video to major networks like the BBC, ITV and CNN.He set up and ran the bureau covering South East Asia and was dispatched at the drop of a hat to breaking stories worldwide.Gavin travelled to more than thirty countries responding to big newsmaking events including Nick Leeson and the Barings fiasco, the devastating Kobe earthquake in Japan, a long-running hostage crisis in Lima, Peru and the rise of the Taliban and war in Afghanistan.
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In 1997 Gavin left APTV to freelance as a reporter in Los Angeles for the UK's Sky News and write and produce for Hollywood TV shows, including Paramount's massively popular Hard Copy.He covered the death of Frank Sinatra live for Sky, the Monica Lewinsky scandal and interviewed a host of 'A' list movie stars, among them Nicolas Cage, Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves.

In 1999 Gavin was hired by the BBC to produce and direct prime-time BBC One programme 'The Crime Squad' presented by veteran broadcaster Sue Lawley.
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In 2002 Gavin opened Avante's Asia office in Bangkok conducting media training courses for organisations in the region in addition to the UK and Europe.

"Amazing trainer.Definitely the best trainer I have ever seen.