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.