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Monday, 05 November 2007

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Phillips

• Roger Phillips. Has lived and worked on Merseyside since the early 1970s having previously been a salesman and then actor in the West End. His broadcasting abilities have won him countless awards including a Sony Gold Award for 'News And Talk Broadcaster Of The Year 2000'. In 2001 honoured by Liverpool's universities.

Frediani

• Richard Frediani. Head of news at ITV Granada. Is said to arrive in the office before his staff in the morning and leave after they’ve gone. A UCLan graduate, he started as a reporter at Red Rose Radio, then ITN and Granada in 2004. Won a BAFTA this year for best news coverage, an extraordinary achievement for a regional news programme to beat the nationals.

Roche

• Harry Roche. Stepping down as chairman of the Press Association next spring but still national and international connections to die for. Began his career at the Mirror and joined the MEN in 1973. Rose rapidly to become chairman and chief executive of the Guardian Media Group in 1988. Would enhance any media company’s board. Lives in south Manchester.

Marley

• Sean Marley. MD of Lime Pictures, the former radio ad sales rep was promoted from commercial director of Lime, formerly Mersey TV, following its acquisition by All 3 Media in 2005. Lime, with over 340 staff in Liverpool, is one of Europe’s largest independent TV production companies and the largest in the UK outside London. He was previously MD of Radio City in Liverpool until 2003, where he won UK Commercial Station of the Year and UK Sony Station of the Year awards.

Dunleavy

• Adrian Dunleavy. Runs the communications and publishing operations of Ten Alps plc from Macclesfield. Sales from his division account for over £40m of the company’s total £70m turnover and NW staff numbers are approaching 300 with new investment in digital. Was with McMillan Scott at the time of the takeover in 2006. With Shell and Continental Tyres previously.

Rix

• Mark Rix. Liverpudlian 43-year-old MD of MEN Media. The company encompasses the MEN, Channel M, MEN online, over 20 weekly papers and a number of specialist print and web titles employing 900 people. Began his career in the Royal Navy before becoming a sales rep in newspapers. Joined the MEN in 1986.

Wilde

• Sara Wilde. Locally born regional MD of Trinity Mirror North West. The group’s North Wales and Huddersfield operations are also in her orbit. In total, responsible for more than 70 newspapers and websites. Was previously commercial director of TM Regional. Sits on the boards of Liverpool Vision and The Mersey Partnership. Married to well-known film producer Colin McKeown.

Maconie

• Stuart Maconie. The 47-year-old former sociology teacher and music journalist is best known as a radio presenter and is a current Radio 2 mainstay and stand-in. Clearly enjoys living up to his ‘northerner' image. Joined Radio 1 in ‘95 and Radio 2 in ’98. Won a Sony Award for music broadcaster of the year in 2001 and is credited with coining the well-worn phrase 'Britpop' in the 1990s.

Morrison

• Alice Morrison. Lively chief executive of film-making network North West Vision with an appropriate background covering a variety of media. Started on an entertainment magazine in Dubai and subsequently helped launch BBC News24. Decided on a radical change and relocated to Burnley to take a senior role with the ultimately ill-fated ISP Supanet before joining NWV.

Mousley

• Dave Mousley. With formative roots in the music business, he joined Red Vision in 1996 and in due course became commercial director and then MD. Red, with offices in Manchester, London and Ontario is one of Europe’s leading CGI and visual effects companies and the holder of a number of BAFTA and RTS awards.

Jones

• Jim Jones. Publisher of the Farmer’s Guardian, which vies with Farmer’s Weekly for the title of Britain’s top farming magazine. Based in Preston, Jones oversees what is in reality a hugely influential operation in the UK employing 80 staff and one of the very few national magazines not run from London.

Griffiths

• Cerys Griffiths. 41-year-old editor of TV news BBC NW. Former editor of Granada Reports, she beat the favourite Liam Fogarty for the job in 2004 and brought a change of culture with Quay Street’s more ‘populist’ values. Started on the Sale and Altrincham Messenger before joining the Lancashire Evening Post and then Granada TV.

• Joseph Kelly. Secretive owner of Gabriel Communications and editor of The Universe Catholic weekly which relocated from London to Manchester in the ‘90s. Founded in 1860, The Universe is the best-selling Catholic newspaper in the UK and Ireland. Gabriel also publishes a number of other religious titles plus the website www.totalcatholic.com

Copley

• Andi Copley. US TV exec was brought in by parent HIT Entertainment to turn around what was Europe’s largest stop-frame model animation studio, Hot Animation, based in south Manchester. Hot’s output includes Bob The Builder and Pingu. Copley’s previous 25 years included spells with Disney and Warner Bros. The good news is Hot seems to have a reinvigorated future.

Bullough

• Helen Bullough. Executive editor of a thriving national BBC entertainment production department in Manchester whose output includes Question of Sport, Mastermind, Street Dr and Dragons' Den – the latter of which she also exec produces. Current chairman of the Royal Television Society in the North West.

Sumner

• Andy Sumner. Together with wife Janet owns Sumners, which with over 55 edit suites is one of the UK’s top film facilities houses. His primary job these days is looking after Peel’s interests in its rapidly growing Pie Factory media production development, the first part of Media City UK at Salford Quays. His star is set to rise much further as the complex develops rapidly.

Dodson

• Mark Dodson. 47-year-old chief executive of Guardian Media Group’s regional media division which encompasses North West interests with others in Surrey and Kent. Began his career as an ad sales rep with Thomson regional before joining The Guardian. Left the fold shortly to work for Reed but returned in ’88 and has risen rapidly since.

Thomas

• Mark Thomas. Editor of the Daily Post. Joined from sister paper the Liverpool Echo as assistant editor in 2003 and was part of the relaunch team in 2004. Began his career with Wirral Newspapers. Had a spell with the Press Aassociation as its regional correspondent and wrote a book about the murder of James Bulger, Every Mother’s Nightmare, before returning to the Echo in 1997. Oversaw the introduction of free city centre distribution last year and has strengthened the paper’s identity as a city business paper.

Page

• Liz Page. Northern regional MD of Archant Life. Her portfolio of a dozen plus consumer titles includes the Life magazines for Cheshire, Lancashire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire. Began her career as a journalist on the Evening Gazette in Middlesbrough. Joined Archant in 2006 from Newsquest where she had latterly been MD of the York publishing centre.

Lorains

• Trevor Lorains. In the ad world, very few agencies can show consistent growth over the longer term, particularly independents. BJL has managed this. Founded the agency 20 years ago having jumped ship from JWT. Staff numbers have grown to 75 and BJL is one of the largest independent agencies in the UK. A visiting lecturer at Manchester Business School.

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