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.

Chris Rogers

Creative Director

Chris is a multi-award winning and Emmy-nominated presenter and investigative journalist. He has uncovered some of the most shocking human rights abuses and criminality around the world for major programmes such as Panorama and he has become a familiar face fronting the UK’s major news programmes, starting as the youngest ever presenter of BBC Newsround at just 19 years old. He then presented Sky News where he was on air for the BAFTA-winning coverage of the 9/11 attacks. Chris was later snapped up to present and report for ITV News and in 2009 Chris returned to the BBC to present for BBC News and BBC Radio.

Chris is also an accomplished writer with much of his work featuring in the national press. His first book, entitled “Undercover”, was released in March 2010 and reached the Amazon top ten best sellers.

Among his many films, Chris famously helped end the scandal of child prisoners in overcrowded adult jails in the Philippines, and his films on child POWs in the Middle East won an Amnesty International Award. He is best known for his award-winning reports exposing terrible conditions in Romanian orphanages in 2007 which led to a European Union investigation; and an unprecedented ITV Tonight Special taking UK Royalty undercover, which sent shockwaves across the globe and caused a diplomatic storm. Chris sparked an international debate on football-related racism following his BBC Panorama: Stadiums of Hate and, also for Panorama, he gained unprecedented access inside the world’s most secretive state, North Korea. For a Panorama Special, Chris exposed child prostitution among girls as young as five at Brazil’s World Cup, the one-hour film achieved BBC One’s highest audience of the year for that slot and was shortlisted for a BAFTA.

In 2017 Chris and his co-producer Marshall Corwin, joined forces with Nicky Cox MBE to launch Fresh Start Media, producing compelling children’s factual television, documentaries and sponsored online content.

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.

Roger Farrant

Executive Producer, Fresh Start Media Bristol

Roger is a multi award-winning programme maker and journalist with a long list of credits covering factual formats, documentaries, current affairs, news and sport. He’s worked with some of the biggest names in the industry including Alex Jones, Matt Allwright, Anita Rani, Dan Snow and Sophie Raworth.

As an Executive Producer on The One Show, he ran one of the programme’s biggest film making teams, covering everything from consumer reports to food features and history. But he was also responsible for delivering a whole host of other programmes, including The People Remember, Break-in Britain, Inside Out and See Hear.

His varied career has seen him take on a huge variety of roles, ranging from windsurf instructing for ‘Club 18-30’ to football reporting on Match of the Day, to becoming the first Editor of the BBC’s Look North news service in Hull.

Ian Pyke

Head Of Production

Ian is a Production Management specialist with a background in Children’s, Sport, Factual and Live Cinema programmes for the BBC, Sky, Premier League Channel and The British Museum. He is now the Head of Production for Fresh Start Media.

From the launch of CBBC and CBeebies via Newsround Ian started his broadcast career at the BBC. The journey continued onto BBC Sport as Production Executive for Sport’s Personality of the Year, Six Nations Rugby, Ski Sunday and Golf.

London 2012 Project Manager was the next chapter, working with NHK and Olympic Broadcast Services to deliver the first Olympics in 8k. As Production Executive at IMG for the Premier League Channel Ian oversaw the recommission of the Live Football coverage for Asia and Europe. Clients to the PLP included Barclay’s and YAHOO.

The next step took Ian to The British Museum as Head of Production for the first Live Cinema Film, Pompeii and Herculaneum. Topping the Box Office in the UK. Retuning to the BBC, Ian took on Training Roles across the organisation as well as time spent with BBC Three as the Planning Manager before joining Fresh Start Media in 2019.

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.

Kathryn Rogers

Shooter, Producer, Director

Kathryn works across Fresh Start Media productions, alongside our pool of freelance camera talent. Originally from the USA, Kathryn started her career as a photographer for US National Parks in Alaska. She progressed into television filming for major outlets such as NBC and Fox News. Since joining Fresh Start Media in 2017, Kathryn has filmed documentaries and short form films across the globe.

Anoop Singh Kung

Shooter, Producer, Director

Anoop works across our slate of Fresh Start Media children’s and Youth programmes including our Kidversation short form documentaries, celebrity interview series Braydon Meets (Sky Kids/Sky One), and our technology show WOW! (Sky Kids). Anoop’s varied background spans 10 years of working within the TV and Digital online industry. TV credits include Recipes That Made Me (BBC2); Fantasy Homes By The Sea (UKTV); and A Place In The Sun (Channel 4). He is currently our dedicated Shooter Producer Director for our weekly news series – FYI, producing viewer led content.

Julia McClean

Production Coordinator

Julia has been with Fresh Start Media since the beginning working across multiple projects across the globe supporting our Head of Production. She can find a flight, hotel and a film crew in some of the most remote parts of the globe.

Julia runs her own events company, she is a DJ and she was previously a researcher at the BBC on programmes such as Watchdog and the Vanessa Show.

Jessica Osborne

Production Cordinator and Researcher

Jessica joined Fresh Start Media through our internship programme, an opportunity for young talent to learn the ropes of media production on the job. Jessica has progressed with that experience to become one of our Production Coordinators supporting our Head of Production on our FYI series and a researcher.