About Us

Nicky Cox

CEO

Nicky is editor-in-chief of First News, the UK’s only newspaper for children with 2.3 million readers (more than The Times, Telegraph and Guardian put together) which she launched in 2006. Nearly half of UK schools subscribe to First News. Nicky was BBC Worldwide’s children’s editorial director for 14 years, where she sat on the brand development board for new programmes, and was part of the commissioning team.

In 2009, Nicky was made an MBE by the Queen for services to children and was given a Patron’s award from the NSPCC for dedication to children. She is passionate about giving kids a voice and a fair deal. First News has been awarded Weekly National Newspaper of the Year in the UK and Save The Children gave the newspaper its award for outstanding contribution to children. In 2014 Nicky was a Woman of Achievement in the Women of the Year Awards. She is Patron of the British Youth Citizen Awards and the Global Teacher Prize. She says children are 27% of the world’s people but 100% of the future.

Her passion is to give children a voice, to include them in the global conversation and to help them become active and engaged world citizens. She says that the world will only become a better place if the next generation is better informed than the last. In her capacity as an expert on children and the news, Nicky appears regularly on television and radio and is often commissioned to write pieces for the national broadsheet newspapers.

Marshall Corwin

Creative Director

Marshall is an Emmy and 4 x BAFTA-winning series editor, producer and director with more than 20 years of wide ranging network TV experience. He has series produced some of the BBC’s flagship shows such as Tomorrow’s World and Newsround, and he created and ran the acclaimed BBC Serious adventure series, seen in 150 countries over eight seasons.

With particular experience in current affairs, adventure, science, animal and children’s issues, Marshall has made films in the world’s most extreme environments, from war zones to the Arctic.

He has worked with Chris Rogers on a number of high-profile documentaries for BBC Panorama, including unprecedented access inside North Korea. Before helping set up Fresh Start Media, he completed a season as Showrunner on the Discovery hit show Gold Rush, and developed, series produced and directed a new 12-part ITV series Bear Grylls Survival School.

He has written a wide range of factual books. Extreme Survival: An Adventurer’s Guide to the World’s Most Dangerous Places, was shortlisted for a Royal Society Science Book prize.

Simona Karabyn

Senior Producer

Simona joined Fresh Start Media in 2019, and works primarily as the Senior Producer of our award winning weekly Sky News and Sky kids news show, FYI, but has also been our producer on other projects such as our Sky Kids technology series, WOW! and our Sky Kids celebrity interview series Braydon Meets.

Prior to joining Fresh Start Media, Simona worked as a freelance Television Producer. She brings varied TV genre experience to her role, beginning her television career in Entertainment, she worked on prime-time shows, (BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing and ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent), before moving into Factual (Channel 4’s award winning The Secret Life of 4 & 5 year-olds), and live studio, Current Affairs and Consumer programmes (BBC One’s Watchdog’s Rogue Traders and The One Show).

Leonie Scott Boras

Assistant Producer

Leonie Scott Boras is our Assistant Producer working across Fresh Start Media productions. Leonie is an FSM success story, joining the company as a work experience placement. We take pride in developing new talent, and Leonie has catapulted up the career ladder joining the company as a Production Coordinator before a promotion to Junior Researcher in 2020 and now our AP.

Caitlin Brennan

Senior Researcher

Caitlin is another Fresh Start Media success story. She joined the company in 2019 as a junior researcher on our education programmes for Discovery and First News. Her natural talent was soon spotted and she was promoted to researcher on documentaries. Caitlin now works as a researcher on many of our long form films, the FYI weekly news show and spin off documentary programmes Kidversation and FYI Investigates.

Fresh Start Media’s Creative Director Marshall Corwin first spotted Caitlin when she was just 13 years old when she successfully auditioned to join the expedition team on the BAFTA winning CBBC series “Serious Explorers”. She kept in touch and it paid off 20 years later – landing her first TV production job with Fresh Start Media.

Kat Macaulay

Producer, Director, Shooter, Fresh Start Media Bristol

Kat is an award winning, experienced and multi skilled Self-Shooting PD with 20 years experience at the BBC, making short form documentaries for News and Current Affairs including BBC Panorama. She is also one of the BBC Academy’s core trainers in film making.

Kat is one of our staff PD shooters and regularly films, producers and directs special reports for the FYI weekly news show, Kidversation and FYI Investigates. Kat also films and directs many of our short form films and documentaries for multiple broadcasters and clients.