New website sparks worldwide search for Mediabuddies

Mediabuddies.com will help trace old colleagues and contacts around the world. Exclusive membership for journalists, broadcasters, photographers, public relations, advertising and marketing people.

Media people around the world are searching for old colleagues at the media industrys recently launched first and exclusive reunion site at http://www.mediabuddis.com

They are press, radio, television and photojournalists, as well as advertising, public relations and marketing executives from the United States, United Kingdom and 10 countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Holland, India, Israel, Italy, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, and Spain.

David Davis, former reporter with The Times founded Mediabuddies when he could not trace former colleagues from his early newspaper days.

I suddenly realised that media people live in a world of their own. A world in which you meet many people, get to know some but where real friendships are hard to come by and certainly more problematical to keep.

Thats the downside of an anti-social lifestyle that can change course with a single telephone call. You lead a life of fleeting relationships whether you are a reporter on a trade magazine, a roving foreign correspondent for a major TV news network, or an account handler in an advertising or public relations agency."

For a 10 annual fee (the equivalent in US$ or Euros) registered members of Mediabuddies.com can

- Search & contact old colleagues, friends and contacts;

- List details of people they would like to trace.

- Offer their freelance services in a special directory

- Share their most memorable assignments, stories, interviews, campaigns or even those they would rather forget.

A percentage of membership fees will be donated equally between two charities:

- Bosum Buddies, a group set up 18 months by Gill Craig, a public relations consultant in Britain who is now recovering after treatment for breast cancer.

- The Everyman Campaign, launched by the Institute of Cancer Research to raise awareness and fund research into male cancer. Among the high profile Everyman supporters in Britain are footballers Neil Harris and Alan Stubbs, both playing again after recovering from testicular cancer.

Patrons of Mediabuddies include:

- The National Association of Press Agencies, the umbrella organisation for more than 50 freelance news agencies in the UK and elsewhere in the US, Spain and Germany;

- The NewsXchange, the annual not-for-profit conference, underwritten by the European Broadcasting Union, for global news broadcasters;

- EIBIS, the international trade & technical news agency; I Want Media, the leading US news portal;

- Media Trust, a public service charity sponsored by international news organisations to help charities communicate and;

- NABS, the marketing industry's charity

For further information, contact:

David Davis:      
Mobile    07831 558 745   
Email     dd@mediabuddies.com