Natasha Courtenay-Smith is a freelance journalist and founder of press and publicity agency Talk To The Press which helps people across the country to sell their real-life stories to the newspapers and magazines, as well as managing the strategies of individuals caught up in a media storm.

The agency has sold more than 300 stories since launching in 2007 and is soon to be featured in a Cutting Edge documentary about the media which is being made by October Films.

Talk To The Press regularly supplies stories to national newspapers such as the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, News of the World, Mirror and Sunday Mirror; plus virtually all of the women’s weekly and glossy magazines in the UK.

As well as working as a feature writer, Natasha has appeared as a media expert on numerous radio stations across the country, including Radio 4 and BBC Radio Five Live. She has also appeared on BBC Breakfast and been featured in The Guardian, Press Gazette and The Independent.

Plus, she won the “Women in Business” category of the 2009 ‘Start Ups Awards’ for new business in the UK. There were over 300 entrants in this category, and the ten judges decided unanimously that Natasha should win.

Natasha became a full time journalist in 1999. Prior to founding Talk To The Press, she worked on a number of women’s magazines and the Sunday Times in New Zealand. She has always specialised in human interest stories and real life interviews, and a portfolio of her work is displayed on this website. For more information about Talk to the Press, visit www.talktothepress.co.uk

Natasha also owns the website www.media-agent.co.uk.

To see a selection of her work go to portfolio page.