Media Support Partnership

Media Support Partnership (MSP) a registered charity (Number SC217971) was founded in Inverness in 2001 by Gordon Adam, formerly of BBC World Service and Radio Scotland, Thomas Prag, former MD and Chairman of Moray Firth Radio and now a Highland Councillor, and Neil Shaw, formerly finance director of Moray Firth Radio.

MSP works with broadcasters in countries in Africa and Asia on specific development-related projects, for instance a radio soap opera in Zambia to tackle issues around safe sex to help stem the spread of HIV/AIDS, or a weekly radio magazine programme produced by children for other children in Mozambique to look at a range of social issues including HIV.

In Somalia, MSP partnered with one of the country’s most courageous broadcasters HornAfrik Media, to devise and teach an 18 month long conflict-sensitive journalism training programme with one of the country’s most courageous broadcasters, HornAfrik Media.

In Afghanistan, MSP mounted an interactive radio programme for young people Straight Talk for four years which tackled topics ranging from the value of elections to arranged marriages and showcasing local pop-culture.

Gordon Adam was one of a team of three consultants who researched the Pakistani media’s response to the Taliban-fuelled conflict for the UK’s Department for International Development earlier this year.