New Website Helps Media People Trace Old Buddies

Posted on August 1, 2003

Mediabuddies.com is a new reunion website exclusively for media people around the world. Media people live in a world of their own. A fast-moving world of often fleeting relationships whether they are a reporter on a national newspaper or a trade magazine, a roving foreign correspondent for a major TV news network, an Internet or photo-journalist, or an account handler in an advertising or public relations agency.

Mediabuddies.com aims to give media people an easy way to reconnect. David Davis, the site's founder said hundreds of staff, freelance and retired journalists and other media people have already registered free of charge to become Founder Members.

Davis, a former journalist with the Press Association, Britain's national news agency and The Times, was previously Vice Chairman of Edelman Public Relations Worldwide and International President of Medialink Worldwide Inc. He launched Mediabuddies after failing to trace former colleagues at his first job at the Croydon Times, a now defunct weekly newspaper in Surrey, England.

"I came across an old press cuttings book while clearing out a cupboard. They brought back so many great memories and I wondered what had happened to my old friends since we had all gone our separate ways," said Davis.

When Mediabuddies goes fully operational in September members will have the capability to trace and contact old colleagues and contacts via the Mediabuddies database. There will also be other services, including a directory for freelancers.