Rob Bonnet
Media Trainer and Consultant
Rob Bonnet is an established sports journalist with extensive experience in both television and radio. He has also set up a media services company which deals with many aspects of media work. He entered the world of broadcasting shortly after leaving Sussex University and worked for seven years in radio (local and national) before moving to regional and then national TV in the BBC's London Newsroom. He was the corporation's Sports Correspondent for six years and then moved to the BBC's Breakfast News as sports presenter; he also occasionally presented the programme itself. These various roles took him to events and stories around the world.
Broadcast experience
Rob has worked in his specialist field of sports journalism with the BBC for about 25 years. He first worked for local radio in England as both a producer and reporter before making the move into television. Rob has worked on programmes on regional television, BBC News, BBC World, News 24 and the BBC Breakfast show. Profile news stories include coverage of both the Commonwealth and Olympic Games, four Football World Cups, several Ryder Cups and Rugby World Cups, the first Tyson/Bruno fight and Mike Tyson's trial in 1992. Interviews for the BBC World programme 'Extra Time' have included star performers from a number of sports, such as Kelly Holmes, Jack Nicklaus, Pete Sampras, Gary Player, Franz Klammer, George Foreman, Michel Platini, Mark Spitz, Matthew Pinsent, Wayne Gretzky, Tani Grey-Thompson, Larry Holmes, Seve Ballesteros, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Seb Coe, Patrick Vieira, Justin Gatlin and Martina Navratilova.
Rob's report on the decision of the International Olympic Committee in 1993 to award the 2000 Olympics to Sydney, won an RTS award for the Nine O'Clock News. His work has taken him all over the world, from World Cups in France in 1998 and Korea and Japan in 2002, to Belgium and Holland for the European Football championships of 2000 and to Portugal in 2004, to Sydney for the Olympics in 2000 and to Manchester for the Commonwealth Games in 2002.
Media communication and presentation skills
After leaving BBC Breakfast, Rob set up a media services company - Five Iron Media Ltd - which first developed in the late 90's as a project to record and show charity and corporate golf events, but which now serves as a vehicle for other media work, including conference facilitating, writing and media-training.
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