Council and Ambassadors
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Nigel is a media executive, writer and journalist, with over 40 years of experience in the media industry. He has held senior leadership roles in TV, journalism and digital organisations.
As well as President of the Media Society, he is chair of the media company Inclusive Digital.
Nigel was a TV journalist for 24 years, at BBC News and then ITN. He worked for ITN from 1982-2002 - and was the Editor of ITV News (in charge of all news programmes on ITV, including Lunchtime News, Evening News and News at Ten).
Since leaving ITN, he has been CEO, MD or Chair of five media organisations - and has been involved in the launch and management of several high-profile media ventures, including Teachers TV, Local TV, and Centenary News.
He worked for Ten Alps plc (now Zinc Media) for four years from 2003-2007 - as the CEO of Teachers TV and MD of Ten Alps Digital.
And he was Chair of the Local TV Network (LTVN) from 2013-2015, a Director of Notts TV from 2012-2016, and Chair of Comux UK from 2022-2026.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Television Society.
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Dominic specialises in leading change for impact and driving digital transformation as an Executive and non-Executive Board member.
He has led or co-led some of the largest European digital businesses in the fields of entertainment broadcasting, news media, online publishing, printing, ecommerce and software development.This has included: Cybersecurity and Risk (CovertSwarm, Track24), News and Big Data (BBC News Online, FT.com, Upmystreet), SaaS and AdTech (Zephr, Just3Things, SubX and Sliide), eCommerce (lastminute.com, xcite.com, Photobox, Moonpig), Video and Social Media (ITV.com and ITV Live) and Marketplaces (Moteefe, VavaCars, PropertyFinder).
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Susan is a communications consultant with over 30 years of experience in global brand management and strategy across diverse sectors. She is Senior Consultant at Morton PR UK.
As a three-time elected Vice President of The Media Society and with a commitment to social responsibility, she fosters collaboration among media professionals to support emerging journalists through The Media Society Mentoring Programme.
Susan also serves as Communications and Operations Director for the Wembley to Soweto Foundation, an educational charity facilitating global partnerships to empower disadvantaged young people.
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Alex is a freelance media consultant, event producer, and passionate advocate of gender equality.
She spent 25 years at BBC News, as a News Editor and Producer - including project-managing high profile multi-location live news and sports events at home and abroad.
Work at BBC News included: Programme Editor of BBC News at One; Launch Editor of Afternoon Live with Simon McCoy; and on location as an Assistant Editor responsible for planning major outside news broadcasts (including the funeral of Nelson Mandela 2013, French Presidential Election 2012, Afghanistan War 2009, US Presidential Election Campaign 2008, Israel/Lebanon War 2006 and The Gulf War 2003).
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Peter’s career as a designer spans over 40 years, mostly working in branding and marcomms.
He is a director of the design company WPA Design.
He was appointed Director of Marketing at the Media Society in 2024, and has overall responsibility at the Society for marketing, branding and design.
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Ivor is a British academic and journalist, professor of political journalism at University of Sussex, and emeritus professor of broadcast journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London.
He has worked as a broadcast journalist for BBC TV and Radio, ITV, Channel Four and Sky News. He is a commentator for a range of domestic TV and radio channels and also writes for a number of UK newspapers.
He serves as the UK representative on UNESCO’s International Programme for the Development of Communication and was awarded an OBE for his services of media freedom internationally.
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Michael is a senior partner in the law firm Reed Smith. He specialises in intellectual property and media litigation, and advises on conflict and potential conflict situations, including crisis scenarios.
He is the firm's Responsible Business Partner for Europe, the Middle East and Asia.
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Conrad is a freelance journalist in London. He previously worked at Bloomberg News as UK digital editor.
Before that, he edited New Scientist and British GQ's websites.
He is also writing and editing Dark Luxury, a Substack newsletter which reports on the €1.5 trillion luxury industry.
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John is a qualified accountant who has been operating a portfolio career since 1980 as an interim executive, non-executive director and non-executive company secretary.
John is not a member of Council, which enables him to provide advice on financial and regulatory matters as needed.
His clients currently include a charity publishing subscription website, an e-newsletter, and a range of hard copy books where he is involved with intellectual property agreement negotiation and royalty rights.
Prior experience includes contributing to a series of radio programmes on business methods broadcast from Prague shortly after the Velvet Revolution; with periods working for publishers of monthly and weekly magazines.
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Ritula Shah is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster.
She is the presenter of ‘Calm Classics’ every weekday evening on ClassicFM.
Ritula left the BBC in April 2023, after a career spanning almost 35 years. For the past 15 years, she was the main presenter of the World Tonight, Radio 4’s evening news programme. She's presented the programme from countries including Brazil, Jordan, India, China, the US, Guantanamo Bay, Finland and Germany.
She was also the lead presenter of The Real Story, a weekly current affairs discussion programme on the BBC World Service.
Ritula is a judge for the British Academy Prize for Cultural Understanding 2025 and a fellow of the London Centre for the Humanities. She is on the advisory board of the defence and security think tank RUSI and an ambassador for the British Asian Trust.