# Google joins as corporate member of Media Trust

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/01/20/google-joins-corporate-member-media-trust/
- Published: 2011-01-20T11:06:58+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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Google has joined as a corporate member of the Media Trust. Matt Brittin, UK and
Ireland Managing Director and Vice President at Google, has been appointed to the
Media Trust board.

Caroline Diehl MBE, founder and Chief Executive of Media Trust, said Google and 
Brittin’s involvement forms part of a wider digital media strategy. She said: “Matt’s
broad range of skills and extensive experience, combined with the unrivalled reach
of Google will be invaluable to Media Trust… Working with Matt and Google’s staff,
we can continue to harness the skills, expertise and resources of the communications
industry, to ensure charities and communities get their voices heard.”

Media Trust works with media organisations and charities “to enhance their communications
and enable communities to find their voice”. Its corporate members include the BBC,
Channel 4, Daily Mail and General Trust plc, Guardian Media Group, IPC Media, ITV
plc, LIVING TV Group, MTV Networks UK & Ireland, News International, OMD, Sky and
Warner Bros.

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As well as Brittin, the charity’s trustees include BBC Director General Mark Thompson,
Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow, Sky Managing Director Sophie Turner-Laing and
former Channel 4 Chief Executive Andy Duncan.

www.mediatrust.org

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