Communication that works.

Tilburstow Media Partners is a PR and media consultancy specialising in strategic communication designed to build, maintain and manage reputations. 

Our clients primarily operate in the hospitality space, whether it be operators or aligned professions, and our aim is to build our client’s reputation as a leader in their field raising the profile and visibility of their brand through careful content marketing including the researching, writing and placing of targeted stories across a range of media outlets.

We get to know and understand the businesses we work with, finding the right message at the right time and translating that message into positive stories for relevant media.

We work closely with national press, business to business titles and consumer press, both online and print, to provide great stories, strong statistics and inciteful comment that will enhance the reputation and visibility of the companies we work with but that also give the media a great story.

As former journalists across business-to-business magazines, women’s press and nationals we know what attracts attention and what doesn’t, we know the difference between a comment that will get printed and one that won’t, and we understand why the media are unlikely to rave about your product or service like you do!

We specialise in well-written, well-researched and tightly targeted news, statements, reports and press releases that will get your organisation noticed, whether it be financial results, company expansion, a senior appointment, new product launch – or demonstrating your expertise. We don’t just sell your product, our aim is to get you involved in the wider conversation, becoming a thought-leader for your sector.

Our results speak for themselves – regular coverage in nationals, business, specialist titles and consumer press and a number of long-standing clients that we have worked with for over 10 years.

So let us help you become part of the conversation.

Tilburstow Media Partners is run by former business and consumer editor and journalist Linda Pettit.

Linda’s career in journalism has spanned a range of magazines including leading business-to-business title The Caterer, which covers the hotels, restaurants and leisure sector, Independent Retail News and  SuperMarketing in the food retail sector, and women’s consumer magazine Family Circle.

For several years Linda was the specialist consumer contributor to BBC Radio Solent, discussing anything from the consumer confusion surrounding telecom packages and broadband deals to the price of cabbages. She has been interviewed regarding the E. Coli outbreak in Surrey and the ethics of children’s involvement in raising farm animals in schools. Linda has  featured on Radio Four’s You and Yours and appeared as a food consumer adviser on UK Food’s former daily TV food programme, Good Food Live.

As a freelance journalist Linda has contributed to The Grocer, Ideal Home, Zest, Horse & Hound, Horse magazine, Hairdressers Journal, Personnel Today, The Times, Karen magazine, M&C Report, the Ecologist, Martin Information and the British Hospitality Association’s (BHA) UK Trends & Statistics Report. She has also written specialist reports on the foodservice sector for business-to-business specialist William Reed and edited The UK Food & Beverage Report for William Reed, Digest and Dine Out for the Restaurant Association, and Hospitality Matters, the British Hospitality Association’s former quarterly magazine.

In 2008 she landed her first public relations client and switched from journalism to the dark side…but thoroughly enjoyed the challenge and getting to know the companies she works with including: the Academy of Food & Wine Service; Horizons; Host Management (which then become CH&CO); HVS London; HVS Executive Search; Bromley Court Hotel; Clayton Hotel Chiswick; the Wine Guild; Handsfree Handling; CGA by NIQ and the Staycity Group.

Linda is the day-to-day account manager for Tilburstow Media’s clients but brings in additional, specialist support when needed to from a pool of talented former journalists. The other half of Tilburstow Media Partners plays an advisory role in the business, working full-time on one of Britain’s leading national newspapers.