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    Mr. David Dunkley Gyimah


    "A highly able and experienced journalist" says political editor, Andrew Brown, brother to the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, and an "original producer" claims ITN Channel 4's anchor Jon Snow. Featured in several newspapers and magazines, including a profile line-up in ES magazine under the banner "Young Gifted and British", David is a multi skilled producer and a finalist in Channel 4's national digital awards 2002: Unleash the Talent Inside.

    Added to his bow, David is a Senior Lecturer in Digital Journalism at the UK's highest ranked University, according to the UK Guardian Newspaper, for Media Studies, Westminster University, and also heads up the Media, Arts and Design School as Web Editor/Master and International Coordinator.

    David describes himself as a technologist and producer looking to fuse creativity and technology in his work. He has worked for the award winning Newsnight on BBC TV and was a freelance correspondent/producer and Associate Producer for ABC News during South Africa's first democratic election. An updated programme he made on the South Africa's new elite can be found here. For two years he worked as a creative director alongside multiple award winning advertiser, Jon Staton, formerly head of tv at Saatchi and saatchi.

    He's a freelance commentator for WLIB Mark Riley's show in New York and has been a member, by invite, of the UK's oldest and globally respected think tank, Chatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs. He was invited to brainstorm ideas with some of the UK's media, arts and culture talent towards the Uk's 2012 Olympic bid and initiated a varsity research and development project with a senior BBC personnel for the BBC looking at Future News.

    Among his past work, The first South African-Ghana project with Edward Boateng; being asked to join Lennox Lewis's camp as a film maker during the Lennox-Tyson clash and a biopic on Bob Marley, Soul Brethren, with discovered unreleased tracks before he was famous. His site remains www.unitedproductions.co.uk/David.

    David has a degree in Chemistry from leicester, postgrad in broadcast journalism from Falmouth and Postgrad modules in International Relations from the London School of Economics. More from his interactive web site.

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