MCS sets the marine news agenda and responds rapidly and dynamically to media events and opportunities. MCS dramatically out-performs many other wildlife organisations of significantly greater size in gaining media profile.

Television and radio

Last year members of the MCS team were interviewed on over 200 national and regional TV and radio programmes. MCS has played a pivotal and highly visible role in not one but two of the BBC's groundbreaking natural heritage series - Seawatch with Kate Humble, and Saving Planet Earth with David Attenborough and a host of celebrities.

CASE STUDY

MCS Beachwatch

The April 2008 MCS Beachwatch Report launch TV coverage included BBC Morning and Lunchtime News, Channel 4 News, Channel 5 News, GMTV and BBC Newsround. MCS staff were interviewed for over 50 radio programmes, including the Today Programme (Radio 4), Jeremy Vine Show (Radio 2), and Radio 1 "Newsbeat". The issues raised by MCS Beachwatch featured in over one hundred articles including in The Guardian, Times, Independent, Mirror, Mail, and Express newspapers.

MCS is recognised by the UK’s national media to be the trusted authority on the marine and coastal environment. We are now their first port of call for all related stories. Last year MCS featured in in over 1,750 magazine and newspaper articles.