Feddy launches media venture

KEVIN Feddy, the former business editor of the Manchester Evening News, has set up a PR and media training agency.

Mr Feddy, 50, left the newspaper amid a fresh cost cutting drive last month after nearly 23 years.

His new venture, Kevin Feddy Media, has already signed up Stockport accountancy firm Hurst, recruitment business Stark Brooks, law firm Gunnercooke and corporate uniforms and event clothing supplier Quayside Group as clients, which are all based in Manchester.

He said: “I enjoyed my time at the MEN immensely and will be putting my extensive experience to good use on behalf of my clients.

“With my strong news sense, writing abilities, understanding of business and the media and extensive network of contacts, I believe I am able to offer a compelling personal service to companies across a variety of sectors.”

As well as public relations, Mr Feddy is offering media training and copywriting services. Before joining the Manchester Evening News’s business desk in 2000, he was the newspaper’s Manchester Airport reporter and district reporter for Bury, Bolton and Wigan.

He began his journalistic career at the Evening Courier in Halifax and went on to work at the Evening Chronicle in Newcastle upon Tyne before moving to the Manchester Evening News in 1990.