About
New Media Networks delivers:
- creative programmes, content design and production
- communications and media strategies
- capacity building, teaching and training
- research and evaluation
- LivingEvidence
New Media Networks partners directly with international agencies, regional and national bodies, broadcasters and media practitioners, academic institutions and learning organisations in countries including; Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nigeria and the UK.
These relationships result in the delivery of strategic interventions and projects with national and/or international recognition.
Who we are:
Partners:
Akim Mogaji: Akim is a media producer with more than 20 years industry experience of delivering award-winning drama and documentary across platforms and globally. His aim is to strengthen new and emerging markets through building capacity and facilitating relationships with more established professional and academic institutions. For over 10 years, Akim was an actor with companies such as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the UK’s National Theatre, Royal Exchange Manchester, Liverpool Playhouse, Leeds Playhouse, Traverse Theatre, Talawa Theatre, and in numbers of films. He moved into documentary film direction for exhibition and broadcast which led to a decade of television and radio production where he developed new approaches to drama and documentary work for the BBC’s global networks. Akim has produced, directed and delivered radio and television programmes for broadcasters across Sub-Saharan Africa, and South America. His specialism is in developing talent and building capacity of media partners. Akim is an Associate Tutor for the Media in Practice module of UEA’s School of International Development’s Masters Course in Media and International Development.
Karen Merkel: For thirty years Karen has specialised in media production, consultancy and training in Development contexts. She co-founded Cultural Partnerships and produced programmes for BBC Radios 4 and 5Live and conceived and co-ran ‘Sound Radio’ - one of the first five Community Radio Stations with a UK Licence to broadcast. Karen was an arts and media consultant for the Arts Council England and the British Film Institute. She worked for the BBC for nine years; directing projects for World Service Education and as Director of Education for the former World Service Trust. She then led Amnesty International’s Internet Programme, worked for Digital Public and went on to co-found New Media Networks. Karen has commissioned and delivered media programmes for broadcast and interactive platforms across the UK, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia with public sector broadcasters and the independent sector. Karen is an Associate Tutor for the Media in Practice module of UEA’s School of International Development’s Masters Course in Media and International Development, where she is studying for a PhD in the Creative Industries and Development.
