Thomas Harding

PO Box 159

Shepherdstown WV 25443

Cell: 304 671 7292

Thomas@ThomasHarding.com

 

Education:

·        Cambridge University, BA (Hons), Social & Political Science

·        Cambridge University, MA (Cantab), Social & Political Science

·        Georgetown University, “Non-Profit Management Executive Certificate”

 

Work Experience

 

 

2007 –

 

 

 

2007 –

 

 

2004-2007

 

Publisher/ Co-Editor/ Writer The Observer, largest circulation paper in Jefferson County, WV, distributed by mail and street box to over 9,000 each month.  www.wvObserver.com.

 

Co-host Panhandle Live, political talk show, WEPM Martinsburg, West Virginia, www.wepm.com

 

Columnist for Shepherdstown Observer on real estate trends. Author, Harding Report, monthly real estate blog/ newsletter emailed to 3,000 subscribers

 

 

2001 –

 

 

2001 -

President/ Broker Greg Didden Associates real estate, www.GregDidden.com

 

Founder/ CEO, Rattlesnake Run, environmental land development company, www.RattlesnakeRun.net

 

1997-2001      

 

CEO, Commissioning Editor & Founder Oxford Channel 6 TV, UK, broadcast free-to-air to 500,000 people, produced one hour original television news each day, achieved 25% audience share in local market, www.SixTv.co.uk

 

 

1999-2001

Director & Founder, Tom, Dick and Debbie Productions, television advertising production company, www.TomDickandDebbie.com

 

 

1994-1997

Co-Founder and Executive Producer of multi award-winning environmental production company, Undercurrents Productions UK. Exec Producer for over 30 documentaries. Undercurrents archive is used regularly by more than 120 TV networks in 15 countries including the BBC, ITN, Channel 4, Sky, and CNN.  www.Undercurrents.org

 

 

1992 - 1997

 

 

1992-1994

Freelance writer Independent, Financial Times, New Internationalist & Guardian, UK

 

Director/ Producer Small World Media, producing environment and development films, news features and television documentaries, including UNCTAD, WWF, Oxfam, BBC, Channel 4, Turner Television & WTN           

 

 

1990-1992      

Associate Producer for various Television Trust for the Environment, Central Television and BBC co-productions

 

 

Books

 

“Operation Haystack”, in production, non-fiction, a German Jew joins the British Army and becomes the country’s first Nazi Hunter capturing, amongst others, the commandant of Auschwitz, Rudolph Hoess.

 

“Video for Change”, Pluto, 2000, Editor and contributor, forward by Peter Gabriel, directed mostly at human rights lawyers, produced in association with Witness Foundation, New York. Translated into Russian, Spanish and French. 

 

“Video Activist Handbook”, Pluto, 2001, two editions, translated into Italian, forward by Dame Anita Roddick.

 

“DIY Britain: Party and People in the 1990s”, Verso, contributor of chapter on use of video by grassroots environmental activists.

 

 

Literary Agent:          Ivan Mulcahy, Mulcahy Conway Associates Ltd., Kensington London W8 5AA Tel: +44 (0)20 7938 3843

 

 

Media Training

           

1997-2000

Co-founder and Executive Director Local Television Training, Oxford, UK. Trained over 120 young broadcast journalists.

 

1997-1998

Citizen Organizing Foundation, UK, Provided media strategy to board members. Trained group leaders in interview training and media skills. Raised national media coverage for group.

 

1993-1997

Founder/ CEO Undercurrents Foundation. Led hundreds of workshops around the world in video production, editing and distribution.

 

Interesting things about me:

·        I cycled across the USA when I was 18-years-old and met my wife along the way.

·        My wife and I have two gorgeous children

·        We live in The Old Firehall in Shepherdstown, WV.