Governance

The Media Society (TMS) is managed and overseen by its Council, and is a membership organisation. There are three types of membership: Full, Digital and Student.

The President and four Vice Presidents are elected at the Society’s Annual General Meeting. The Council also selects a Director of Marketing and Finance Trustee.

The current President, Nigel Dacre, was elected at the AGM in November 2024.

Council meets every two months – and meetings are in-person and via Zoom. The meetings are chaired by the President.

There are three Council Committees:

  • Management Committee (made up of the President, Vice Presidents, Director of Marketing, the Finance Trustee and the Treasurer).

  • Events Committee (made up of Council and TMS members). The committee is currently: Nigel Dacre (co-chair), Alex Sinker (co-chair), Sue Ellis, Ivor Gaber, Charlotte Henry, Dan Seamarks, and Hayley Jones.

  • Finance Committee (made up of the President, Treasurer and Finance Trustee).

The Council meeting in December 2024 agreed the following Interim Strategy:

“The aim is to make the TMS one of the key organisations in the UK for the discussion of important and topical media issues, supported by a growing membership base, and with its activities taking place across platforms.

Our events need to be at the core of what we do. We need to ensure that they are informative, exciting, sometimes surprising and always distinctive. We also need to have a wide appeal across the media sector, be relevant in today’s fast-moving media world, and meet our charity objects.

At the same time, we need to be a professional and well-run organisation.”

The meeting also approved an ambitious ‘Plan for 2025’ - including launching two seasons of in-person and virtual events, a new Media Society podcast series, a new Members’ Newsletter, an upgraded TMS YouTube Channel, and a new Media Society Mentoring Programme.

The Media Society is a registered charity with number 313450 and also a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales No. 1103573. Its Registered Office is 1 Blossom Yard London, E1 6RS.