Press Gazette, the weekly “bible” of journalism, has featured the career of Arnold Broadcast’s Managing Director, Tim Arnold, in an article headlined “Danger zone survivor.”

It says:“Tim Arnold came through a year in Northern Ireland without a scrape before he was hospitalised by members of a mob during the poll tax riots in 1990, while working for Sky News.

“A seasoned reporter, he put the incident down to the inexperience of his cameraman, who went into the melee with a company logo emblazoned on his camera... “Tim, who now runs his own media training and corporate
communications company, believes he received the best possible guidance while working for BBC Northern Ireland...

“Most news organisations realise their legal and moral obligations to employees, believes Tim, but he is confident more should be done in some fields of television journalism. “In predictably high-risk situations, he advocates the use of plain-clothes security men to protect reporters and
television crews...”

Tim Arnold is recognised by the profession as a first class journalist whose opinions count. He and the rest of the Arnold Broadcast team are ready now to harness that frontline experience to advise your organisation how to turn the media to your advantage.