Our Services
Mult Box Media offers a wide range of media services with levels of relevant skill and knowledge rarely found in one organisation.
What do you get from Mult Box Media?
- Detailed expertise in the media sector and its tangential
connecting industries
- An unrivalled black-book of contacts inside the industry and
knowledge of the characters that run it and work at all levels
- Business acumen derived from an FT-level understanding of how
broadcasting, publishing and other TMT sectors operate
- High-level writing skills with an ability to find quickly the voice of
individual business leaders
- Personal relationships with the editors and correspondents who
write the stories that influence share prices and executive careers
- Media-training and presentation-training from a team that has
worked with CEOs, FTSE chairs and Government officials at the
highest levels, including video playback and personal-appearance
advice
- Strategic vision and tactical execution
- Recommendations for our services from CEOs past and present of
some of the biggest names of the UK media industry as well as
endorsements from chief communications/corporate affairs officers
- Personal attention and career-support for leaders and
communications/corporate-affairs chief officers
Media Consultancy
Mult Box media offers high-level strategic advice to media-industry brands as well as strategic communications consultancy for a broad range of companies.
Using expertise gathered over three decades in and around the media world, Mult Box can offer insight and advice to guide brands to the best possible position in their fields.
Whether it is advice on positioning, narratives, internal communications or obtaining coverage in the most important global media titles, Mult Box has the knowledge and skill to help. We are experienced media-relations professionals who understand the media world from the inside out.
The consultancy can advise on social-media strategies, executive-positioning, speechwriting and help in composing letters for publication or articles for prestigious news outlets. Our lead consultant Ben Fenton has advised the top-tier management of some of the world’s largest companies as well as providing help to two-man start-ups and individual practitioners in a variety of industries.
Podcast Training
As podcasts and newsletters become ever more popular as ways of reaching new audiences, companies need skilled and experienced guides to ensure theirs get noticed and add value.
Lila Das Gupta and Owen Bennett-Jones have between them decades of experience in the production of audio materials. Lila has also produced newsletters for clients and with Ben Fenton, the team can offer access to top-quality editorial and curation-training.
They bring vision and scriptwriting craft to all projects in this sometimes daunting and testing area of communications.
Media Training
Lila Das Gupta and Owen Bennett-Jones are well-versed media-trainers who call on decades of journalistic knowledge and their own training and track record as interviewers to train people to be their best when meeting the media.
Lila has trained the chief executives and senior managers of some of Britain’s best-known organisations in both the private and public sector.
She has trained in learning and development skills to a high level, gaining qualifications as an NLP practitioner, executive coach and facilitator.
She has a CIPD Advanced Diploma in Design, Delivery & Evaluation of Learning & Development Provision.
Both Lila and Owen worked at the BBC for many years, Lila as a reporter and senior producer, Owen as a reporter and one of the principal presenters of the BBC World Service. He is renowned for his skill as an interviewer and has carried that into a career as an academic teaching journalistic skills at universities in Europe and the Middle East.
With help from other members of the team, Lila and Owen can train people from first-time interviewees to the most experienced media veterans in the skills needed to present their best self to the public.
Ben Fenton, as one of the most experienced news reporters of his generation, provides back-up in preparing clients for meetings with the press and Peter Simon offers detailed advice on body-language and appearance from his many years’ acquired knowledge of videography.
Presentation Skills
Over and above media training, Lila Das Gupta is highly-qualified in a number of areas of presentation-skills training. She has certification in NLP and coaching which contribute to improving the performance skills of executives on stage or in virtual presentations.
These qualities allow Lila to take people far beyond the normal range of media-training skills to allow even inexperienced presenters and speakers to show professional levels of presentation.
Lila’s experience includes working with international clients and extends to life- and career-coaching.
Writing Projects
The three former journalists working with Mult Box Media bring unmatchable experience in writing and teaching the arts of clear written communication.
Owen Bennett-Jones has added academic experience as tutor, lecturer and mentor in journalism schools in Britain and abroad to his own book, journalism and scriptwriting credentials.
Lila Das Gupta has not only written hundreds of articles for publications such as The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian and Gardeners World magazine, but she has also designed and led UK Civil-Service training programmes in improving written projects.
Ben Fenton, beyond writing more than 8,000 articles for The Daily Telegraph, the Financial Times and others, has taught writing at each of these papers and to communications professionals at Edelman. He has also created and delivered writing courses for the communications teams of global corporations.
Video
Pete Simon can bring his long experience of shortform video production to bear to help clients create powerful corporate and commercial films for marketing purposes.