Meet the Team
Joseph O'Halloran
Joe O'Halloran has been a writer and business analyst for over twenty years in the IT/broadcasting/CGI/telecoms/design/travel/consumer sectors, with additional experience of working as an automotive systems engineer for Shell UK.
Titles worked for include The Financial Times, Computer Weekly, Microscope, handbag.com, CGI, C3, C2M, IBE, CADCAM,CSI, IT Europa, Euromedia, IPTV International, Infosecurity Today, IBC Daily, TVB Europe, Future Digital, BT Talking Business, Cable and Satellite Europe, Broadband, New Design Magazine, Vehicle Engineering Design, Design Export News, Unix & NT News, Individual Homes, DECUser, The VAR, Holiday Magazine (Canary Islands), KrisWorld (Singapore Airlines In-flight Magazine) and North West Business Insider. Also worked as a digital media futures analyst for the Stanford Research Centre's Business Intelligence Consulting division with clients including, Samsung, Nokia, BBC, DERA (QinetiQ), TDC TeleDanmark, T-Online, III (Taiwan), Chungwa Telecom (Taiwan), NTT, KDDI, Mitsubishi, Casio, Sumitomo and Hitachi.
Also the author of white papers on broadband networks, video on demand, flat panel display technology, conditional access and security of pay-TV, unified communications, security for the extended enterprise, hosted communications, security for retail IT, mobile services for financial institutions, standards for retail IT, IT for manufacturing networks. Also lectured, at The University of Hertfordshire and The Academy of Contemporary Music respectively, in design and new media technology.
Iñaki Ferreras
Iñaki Ferreras is graduated in Journalism for the internationally renowned University of Navarra and is also graduated in Music. He has been working as a journalist for 23 years and as a journalist specialized on new television for 16 years now. He started out his career as a reporter on economic magazines and on the most important Spanish TV news agency 'Europa Press'. As a specialized journalist on the audiovisual he begun in the well known magazine 'Digital TV' (formerly called 'Satélite TV') and after that he moved into classic broadcast magazine 'Cinevídeo 20'. Later he joined the European leading magazine group Télé Satellite Publications to open its Spanish office. At the same time he started out working as Spain's correspondent for the international publications on digital TV 'Cable Europe' and 'Interspace' and in the meantime he free-lanced for many relevant Spanish publications such as 'Tiempo', 'Interviù' and 'Emisiones TV' among others. He's also invited in many conferences and events related to the audiovisual as an expert. He's also in charge of the communications dept. for the internet portal HispaVista. Currently Ferreras is 'Rapid TV News' Spain's delegate.
Andrea M. Michelozzi
Andrea M. Michelozzi is a highly experienced Television journalist who has been involved in the media sector since 1982. He specialises in Economic and International Affairs and has worked and consulted for many main national television channel groups such as: CBS, HSE, Mediaset and Rai. Andrea has established and organised a very important Media VIP network in Europe and Latin America. As Comunicare Digitale President, he is in touch with more than 23.500 professionals in more than 12 countries including Spain, France, UK, Panama, Colombia, Turkey etc. Besides operating internationally, Andrea works between Rome and Tuscany.
Rebecca Hawkes
While at Icom Publications, Rebecca edited a number of region-specific business magazines, including Middle East Communications, Middle East Broadcast & Satellite, and Middle East Satellite Today. She also launched the titles Asia-Pacific Satellite, Indian Broadcasting and the Asia-Pacific Satellite Yearbook, published for the Asia Pacific Telecommunity. The start of the millennium saw her editing Post Update, then the leading monthly title for the European audio and visual post-production sector.
As a freelance writer she has contributed to numerous publications, including - in the broadcast sector - the Financial Times, ComputerWeekly, Broadcast, the IBC Daily, TVB Europe, Cable and Satellite Europe, IBE and Hardware.
Rebecca's more recent role as deputy head of press at the RSPCA saw her engaging with UK broadcasters and national newspapers on a daily basis; helping the charity to regularly receive more media coverage than any other NGO in the UK.
Jörn Krieger
Jörn Krieger is based in Bavaria, Germany, and has specialised in media journalism since 1990. He has contributed to a wide range of German and English-language trade publications, including Inside Satellite TV, New Television Insider, Interspace, Cable Europe, Cable & Satellite and Digital News, in addition to providing consultancy and analysis. His emphasis is on satellite television, cable networks, digital television, pay-TV and emerging markets such as IPTV, mobile media and direct to mobile broadcasting via satellite.
In 2002, Jörn completed his doctorate thesis in communication studies and in the same year also published a handbook detailing the advantages of direct-to-home satellite broadcasting. In 2004, Jörn founded Medienbote, a daily, German-language media industry newsletter offering a comprehensive overview of developments relevant to his domestic market. He has interviewed key media personalities including Ferdinand Kayser (SES Astra), Jürgen Doetz (VPRT), Herbert Kloiber (TMG), Philippe Cayla (EuroNews), Peter Mercier MobiTV) and Glenn Oakley (Rainbow Media). Jörn's particular fields of interest are the changes taking place in the media industry through the growing importance of IP-based networks as television carriage platforms and the accompanying new means of individualised media consumption.
Pascale Paoli-Lebailly
Pascale Paoli-Lebailly (38) graduated in English at the Sorbonne and in journalism at the Paris-based school IPJ. She started work in 1993 as a media journalist for specialist newsletter La Lettre de l'Audiovisuel et des Média, where she specialized in the production and broadcasting sectors. Since 1997 she has freelanced for international titles such as Variety, Kidscreen, Channel 21 and TV Europe, and more recently for TBI. In France, she's contributing to French trade titles CB News (Communication & Business weekly), the daily newsletter Satellifax and its bi-weekly magazine Satellimag, as well as consumer newsmagazines. In the media and TV sectors, she has worked for TéléObs, L'Express, Téléloisirs, Le Nouvel Economiste.
Louise Duffy
Louise Duffy has enjoyed a long career in the broadcast and IT media industries working on a variety of leading titles such as CGI, Post Update, PACT Creation and C3 as well as Computer Weekly, Electronics Weekly and MicroScope. She has also direct experience of the cutting-edge of the new media industry from being the website editor of RealNetworks.co.uk, electronic publishing editor of What Personal Computer and content editor of handbag.com.
