WIMB CIC AT 5, IMBOLC, AND OUR NEW ADVISORY PANEL
Five years of Women in Media Belfast CIC and counting.
We thought that was worth celebrating, and our anniversary coincides with the ancient Celtic festival of Imbolc so we gathered upstairs in the Sunflower bar to mark festivities, eat Boxing Hare Pizza, and cake, and make St Brigid’s crosses. It’s a time of renewal, and are working on our board, so we would like to introduce our new advisory panel.
Our wonderful team includes: Aiken PR’s Alison Knox; UTV journalist Carol Jordan; U105 station director Peter McVerry; Belfast Telegraph assistant news editor Flavia Gouveia; and tech lawyer Jude Copeland.
If you have any questions or want to collaborate us please get in touch.
With gratitude
Team WIMB CIC
WIMB CIC ADVISORY PANEL BIOS
Alison Knox is a seasoned PR professional with over 15 years’ experience in the communications industry. She has worked across both corporate and consumer PR, with a particular specialism in the arts. Throughout her career, Alison has held both agency and in-house roles, working with a number of high-profile Irish companies and brands, as well as some of Northern Ireland’s best-known arts organisations and festivals. She specialises in developing and delivering integrated consumer and digital campaigns. Having managed several major all-island campaigns, Alison brings extensive knowledge of the media landscape and strong media relationships, which she uses to create targeted media strategies that deliver impact. She is passionate about supporting and championing women in media and the arts, mentoring emerging talent, and fostering inclusive opportunities across the industry.
Carol Jordan has worked at UTV since 2022, after two decades in London where she worked for ITN, NBC News and CNN. Passionate about women's issues, social inequality and positive change, she is equally interested in the changing media landscape and audiences. She's also old enough to want to help develop the younger generation of journalists through mentoring and support.
Peter McVerry is Station Director for U105, part of www.onic.ie. Previous to that he worked as a print journalist for The Irish News and Belfast Telegraph, then joined UTV Media plc in 2000 as launch Editor of their website u.tv, also spending some time on tv news, sport and documentary production. He joined U105 as Editor, Speech on its launch in late 2005 and assumed responsibility for the station overall in the spring of 2008. Peter has been Chair of the Audio Academy NI branch for more than a decade, aimed at encouraging entry into and excellence within radio. He also reports sister stations across Ireland as well as the group's national UK stations including Times Radio and talkSPORT. Peter has been a long-standing judge for the UK Aria Radio awards and the Irish IMRO Radio Awards, and sits on the organising committee for the IMROs as the NI Commercial Radio rep. He has a particular interest in Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and is a Trustee for the Now Group , a social enterprise helping support those who are neurodiverse, autistic or have a learning difficult into jobs with a future.
Flavia - bio to follow
Jude - bio to follow
