Media Training

Flow offers specialist media training for executives, mostly in the corporate sector. The training is conducted by media veterans Jeremy Maggs, Kate Turkington and Tara Turkington. Maggs is a host of eTV’s Newsnight every evening, and Kate Turkington is a highly respected travel journalist and hosts South Africa’s longest running talkshow, Believe It or Not, on 702/Cape Talk on Sunday nights. Flow Communications’ CEO Tara Turkington is a print and online specialist, who has written for a wide range of publications including the Mail&Guardian, Financial Mail, City Press, Elle, True Love and numerous others, and who has lectured journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand and the Durban University of Technology.

Our media training clients include some of South Africa’s top bluechip companies, including Nedbank, Liberty Life, Microsoft, Standard Bank, Growthpoint, Acsa and dozens of others. We usually take small groups (up to five at a time, but by special arrangement up to 15 at a time), and mix theory with practice, which includes a live radio and TV interview in highly realistic simulations. Most of our clients are repeat clients, and they choose us for our excellent trainers and balanced programme of print, online, TV and radio know-how. The training is exhilirating and empowering.

Other Types of Training

Many of Flow’s staff members have extensive experience in training and higher education, particularly in the fields of journalism, graphic design, web-based research and dealing with the media, and we also offer customised training in new media, how to make the most of Google, InDesign, graphic design and other related areas.

Tara Turkington Tara worked as a senior lecturer at university level for six years – first full-time for three years in the Durban University of Technology’s Journalism Department, and then part-time in the University of the Witwatersrand’s Journalism Department. She is passionate about online learning and teaching journalism in particular. She has a Post-Graduate Diploma in Higher Education (cum laude) from the University of KwaZulu-Natal and often conducts guest lectures in the University of the Witwatersrand’s Journalism and Media Studies departments.

Tiffany Turkington’s experience in education and training includes lecturing at Vega, The Brand Communication School and the Design Centre, two of South Africa’s top tertiary institutions for design. She is a currently an Advisory Council member of Vega, and is an external examiner for the AAA School of Advertising and for Vega, The Brand Communications School.

Richard Frank trains primarily in the fields of internet research and web design, and has experience in both the corporate and academic environments.

Janet Berger has extensive experience in education and training having taught design in various tertiary design institutions over the last twenty years. These include Vega the Brand Communication School and Design Center. She is a qualified assessor and has been an External Examiner for the University of the North West for the past 3 years. Janet has also been involved in assessing South African students’ submissions for the International Society of Typographic Designers for the past 4 years.

We also train in areas very different to journalism and the media. For example, we have conducted several sessions to train the guides at the Maropeng visitors’ centre in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site.

Many of our courses have online components, developed across a variety of platforms, including wikis, blog software developer WordPress and the global education software leader WebCT