ALAN ROOK
Managing Director
BlackRook Media
Alan leads the BlackRook companies and is our principal consultant and producer, having worked at senior executive level for some of Europe’s most significant media brands.
I’ve run the four BlackRook companies for 14 years now – and before that worked for 20 years in broadcasting, mostly for ITV in the UK.
In Corporate Film, BlackRook offers a variety of products and services – including taking direct responsibility for making sure the content we produce is actually seen by the audience clients want to reach.
We’ve been making high-end documentary video content for business on TV and online across social media internationally since 2011. We’ve done that across a huge range of industry sectors with location work spanning the EMEA and APAC regions.
In 2025 and 2026, our production partners internationally include Sustainable Travel International, the World Bioenergy Association, the Association of MBAs, the Pensions Management Institute, The Association of Chief Executives and The Public Chairs’ Forum.
BlackRook’s events TV teams work internationally too, providing editorial and technical services, including production hardware and software, for clients including MP International (Singapore), BlueDog Group, George P. Johnson and FIRST Agency. We’ve deployed our live-streaming, ‘pop-up’ TV channel teams in Switzerland, Canada, Australia, Holland, Spain, France, China and Indonesia.
BlackRook’s coaching team trained all of the BBC’s UK digital apprentices over seven years. Since 2023, we’ve also run Digital Skills Bootcamps funded by UK Government, teaching hundreds of learners social media content creation skills right across the West Midlands region.
BlackRook has produced more than 300 half-hour current affairs programmes for the broadcaster Iran International and provided more than 50 of its staff in London over four years to support Nigeria’s ARISE News.
Leader
I was Editor of the ITV network’s daytime TV programme This Morning and was part of the senior management team that ran the breakfast shows GMTV, Lorraine and Daybreak.
I served as a member of the executive team that runs all of ITV News – its Nations and Regions. For five years, I was Head of News of England’s biggest television region – ITV Central.
I’ve run broadcast and online news operations worldwide for the British Forces Broadcasting Service. As Head of News, I managed an international team at BFBS – multi-media producers, reporters and presenters, including those deployed in Camp Bastion, the principal British base in Helmand Province in Afghanistan during the conflict there.
Presenter
As a presenter, I have 30-years’ experience ‘on-camera’ and across the last decade I’ve regularly appeared on screen and provided narration in BlackRook’s documentary work on TV and online. I’ve fronted network current affairs shows too – including anchoring live from the studio for ITV across the UK on the morning Princess Diana died, just a few hours after the news broke. I’ve also presented successful factual entertainment series on ITV channels, as well as regional news programmes.
Collaborator
A member of Wolverhampton University’s School of Creative Industries Advisory Board, I’ve also been a regional and national awards judge for The Royal Television Society since 2005. I’m an awards judge for the Association for International Broadcasters too. As a producer/director, I am myself a recipient of the International Federation of Journalists’ Documentary Prize.
I’ve worked as an executive producer, consultant, coach and provider of staff and facilities for organisations including the broadcasters CNBC (Europe), Iran International, ARISE News and Rudaw (Kurdistan), as well as The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (Rome), BMW, Zinc Communicate, DMA Media, 3Screens London and VNS 24/7 (Johannesburg)
I’ve also guest lectured on broadcast news, documentary making, TV presentation and television magazine production at universities in Nottingham, Lincoln, Birmingham, Derby and Leicester.
