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Cleland Thom
Cleland Thom 
is recognised as one of the UK´s leading media and communications trainers.
He has trained more than 2,000 people from hundreds of businesses, public authorities, websites and charities all over the UK. See them
Cleland has been involved in media and communication for the whole of his career.
His client include some of the largest organisations in the UK, including the World Trade Group, the NHS and London Councils.
He is also legal adviser to the Manchester Evening News, The Local Radio Company and Manchester Eletronic Media and has trained editors and journalists from all the UK's key media groups
- Newspapers: Archant, Northcliffe, Newsquest, GMG and Johnston Press
- Magazines: RBI, TMG, Janes Information Group and the Consumers Association
- Radio stations: GMG Radio and TLRC
He was group editor and senior executive of nine UK regional paper titles in London and was appraised as being their ‘best all-round editor for nearly 50 years’ and for having ‘outstanding commercial awareness and marketing skills’
His campaigns as an editor were featured in the Guardian, the Daily Mail and on Channel 4.
And his paper´s coverage of the first Gulf War was voted as the best in the UK by the Kuwait daily paper the Voice of Kuwait and was praised by President Bush Senior and Margaret Thatcher.
Cleland is also known as a leading investigative journalist.He has worked on investigative assignments for the Sunday Mirror, the News of the World and the regional press.
His 25-year investigation and campaign to free two men wrongly convicted of a double murder was nationally acclaimed and was featured in the Press Gazette, on an ITV documentary and on BBC 2's Rough Justice.
He worked on an expose of an alleged ticket scam at Chelsea FC and investigated a fraud by a London landlord which resulted in one man going to prison.
Another investigation into corruption in the Haringey Emergency Corps also resulted in another man going to prison.
He now trains investigative journalists from some of the UK´s leading regional papers.
He holds the National Council for the Training of Journalists National Certificate, the Certificate of Education from La Sainte Union College for Higher Education, Grade 8 qualifications in Speech and Drama and Public Speaking from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and is a qualified NVQ assessor, and an NVQ Moderator.
Cleland is a member of the Society of Editors and the Chartered Institute of Journalists.
He ran the highly successful NCTJ course at Highbury College, Portsmouth, for 10 years.
He has done freelance work for all the national daily and Sunday papers and for magazines, local radio and television.