From international news and current affairs to factual entertainment, advertorial features and sponsorship bumpers.
We prepare people to perform under scrutiny and to the highest standards.
We can do that with in-person coaching, we can do it remotely - and we can even help with video-on-demand courses, complete with practical exercises and feedback on performance from our experts.
Interview technique, presentation skills and crisis readiness — taught by broadcast journalists who’ve conducted the interviews your leaders are worried about.
We’ve done that work for global brands such as car-maker BMW and the drinks company William Grant & Sons.
Our team has mentored household names from television on presentation skills, as well as executives heading onto some of the biggest conference stages in the world.
And in the UK our people coached all of the BBC’s digital apprentices for seven years.
We build content operations from the ground up — and repair the ones that aren’t performing.
Setting up online or broadcast content channels, restructuring a production department, or building an in-house content team is a problem of people, process and cost.
We’ve done it repeatedly, internationally, and we’ve done it as practitioners rather than advisers who’ve only read about it.
We’ve taken new broadcasters from licence application to on-air.
We find the people who make it work.
Recruitment and headhunting across editorial, production and craft roles, drawn from an international contacts base built over three decades in the industry. We know who’s good, and we know who’s available.
We make teams better, faster. From social media content creation to live broadcast output.
Production training for new and restructuring operations.
We teach how to plan, research, write, shoot and successfully schedule.
Editorial standards, multi-skilling, workflows — plus live gallery discipline for events or broadcast.
Delivered on-site or remotely.
We tell you where the money is going.
Independent review of staffing structures, roles, responsibilities and production supervision.
We test whether your cost base matches your output — and where it doesn’t, we say so and show you the alternative.
We also help with advice on technology, use of AI and have contributed to stress testing new software systems in live production environments.
BlackRook Media Coaching
30 hours of video-on-demand coaching modules — designed to deliver knowledge and skills with lasting value.
Be fully prepared to deal with the media if a crisis hits. Learn how to control the narrative and own the agenda.
Contact AlanLearn how to present yourself and communicate effectively in a media interview environment.
Contact MarkLearn to make engaging videos for social media, websites or even for TV entirely with your phone.
Contact JoeWhat you say matters. So does how you show up.
Alongside media coaching, BlackRook can help clients consider how they present visually on camera — from wardrobe and proportion to colour, context and what they want to project.
Consultant Partner
Elaine Monteiro brings two decades of luxury client experience to BlackRook’s approach to visual presentation as part of on-camera preparation.
Having worked with private clients at Dior and Harrods, including haute couture and made-to-measure, Elaine understands how wardrobe, proportion, colour and context can shape the way someone is perceived.
Through her independent personal shopping service, Curated by Ela, she works with clients to ensure that how they present themselves feels considered, confident and, above all, authentic.
From preparation to presence
A practical example of how wardrobe can support the setting and the message. For this filmed premiere scene, the outfit was considered around the occasion, proportion, colour and how the person would appear on camera.
Working in association with Curated by Ela, clients can access personal wardrobe guidance tailored to the individual, the occasion and the environment in which they will be seen.
It’s not about creating a different version of you. It’s about making sure how you present yourself supports the message — and still feels like you.
BlackRook helps clients shape their message and deliver it confidently on camera. Curated by Ela brings the same care to how they present themselves visually. Together, we help clients feel comfortable in both — so the preparation behind the scenes comes through naturally when it matters.
Broadcasting
From international news and current affairs to factual entertainment, advertorial features and sponsorship bumpers.
Our teams have deep experience producing some of Britain’s most iconic network broadcast output — including This Morning, ITV News and BBC News.
We advise on and provide recruitment and headhunting services, production training and all the mechanics for launching on air. BlackRook has a broad and international contacts base for acquiring affordable content and highly developed industry nous on how to produce programmes in-house cost-effectively.
News, Current Affairs, Documentaries, Factual Entertainment shows and Advertorial Features — on location and a whole range of live and recorded studio-based programmes too. From political debates to entertainment and technology magazines.
BlackRook has now made more than 330 editions of the twice-weekly, half-hour Persian-language media review show Iran in the Eyes of the Others, broadcast globally on the Iran International TV channel.
We work with the Local TV network on its 10 channels across England and Wales, broadcasting to more than seven million homes and producing content for series including Country Ways, Access Success and Golden Years.
We also work with 3screens London as producers of the London Live TV channel’s advertising magazine shows, including Making It Big In London, The London Social and London Living.
For new production projects and channel start-ups — on television and online.
For five years, BlackRook consulted for the African broadcaster ARISE News, completing contracts that saw its management and production teams oversee the project stage of the channel’s formation in 2012.
BlackRook then delivered a succession of newsroom leadership, production and training contracts involving more than 50 BlackRook producers. Its consultants ran the network’s London team and regularly travelled to coach the channel’s staff at its studios in Johannesburg, South Africa, and in Abuja and Lagos in Nigeria.
We help prove and develop new software systems for production environments. We test staffing structures, roles, responsibilities and training to maximise cost efficiency.
