Jilly Carter
// Senior Consultant
Jilly Carter is an experienced media trainer, with more than 18 years of experience in radio and television broadcasting in the United Kingdom and Europe. Since 1990, Jilly has levered her experience to help clients get the most out of the media through teaching media interview skills. She has worked with clients including Intel, EBay, PayPal, Sotheby’s, Whitbread, Rolls Royce, Safeway, Levi’s, Mitsubishi, Electrolux, the NHS, Knoll Pharmaceuticals, Chartered Institute of Taxation, Reed International, Flemings Bank, NatWest, Commercial Union, Courtaulds and The Medical Defence Union.
In the early 1980s, she joined BBC Radio Four and also was a local radio presenter in the region at Two Counties Radio in Bournemouth . In 1982, she moved into television with TSW in Plymouth as a presenter and reporter on their main news show. There, she gained experience reporting on a wide range of subjects including farming, high fashion, business, and consumer issues.
She also has worked in the United States on an exchange program with WRAL TV in North Carolina . There, she anchored the news show and their anniversary state specials. Jilly was news presenter on BBC Breakfast Time, presenting the hourly national news summaries on BBC Television. She also was a newscaster on ITN’s Into the Night.
Jilly has considerable experience conducting live presentations, including the ITV Telethon. She has presented at many corporate events and programs, ranging from videos for London Electricity, Shell International, Renault, Zeneca, Dutch and British Telecom and The British Heart Foundation.
Born in Widnes , Cheshire , Jilly was educated at Huyton College near Liverpool. She then took a London University degree in English, French and History of Art. She also speaks French and Italian.