Who's who
Charlotte Barry
Award Leader, Multimedia Broadcast Journalism (Acting)
Charlotte Barry is a journalist and trainer with extensive experience in print, broadcasting, online and public relations.
She has lectured at University College Falmouth since 1999, specialising in practical multimedia journalism skills, online journalism media ethics and regulation, and political frameworks. She also teaches MA International Journalism students and has contributed to BA(Hons) Journalism and MA Professional Writing.
In 2005 Charlotte completed a PGCert in Learning & Teaching in Higher Education at the University of Plymouth, and became a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
As associate director of MediaWise, a charity that provides advice, information, research and training on media ethics, she advises members of the public affected by inaccurate or intrusive media coverage.
With MediaWise director Mike Jempson, she has devised training materials for journalists all over the world. These include a journalists' handbook and a training module on the media and children's rights for UNICEF, as well as a suicide awareness-training programme and suicide reporting guidelines.
Charlotte is a tutor for NCTJ Training on its news reporting, periodicals and sub-editing distance learning courses.
Her journalism career began as a Thomson graduate trainee on the Evening Express in Aberdeen, where she gained her NCTJ proficiency certificate. She subsequently became a reporter, then deputy chief sub-editor, on the Times Higher Education Supplement.
She left London to set up Cornwall Reports, a freelance news agency supplying the latest news from Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly for national and regional newspapers, magazines, radio and television.
Since then she has been a regional television journalist, freelance women's magazine writer, public affairs manager for wind energy companies, further education lecturer, blog author, and media skills trainer for trade unions and voluntary agencies. She is a member of the National Union of Journalists and the University and College Union.
In her spare time Charlotte keeps poultry on a former smallholding in north Cornwall and enjoys walking, swimming, reading and gardening. She is a parish councillor and is chair of Cornwall's first community supported agriculture scheme Camel CSA.
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