Folio Media And Creative Academy
Learning Begins With Us
We, at Folio Media Creative Art offer supportive and inspirational environments for people to learn and grow with us. Our passion for training means we achieve more than outstanding results. We strive to build confident and creative thinkers and aim at delivering an education that is truly relevant to their future.
Folio Media And Creative Academy is focused on social-emotional development in creative Art. Our students walk out with the character and confidence to make their mark in the world, equipped with the knowledge and real-world skills that take them way ahead in the industry they may serve.
Curriculum Overview
Folio Media aims at offering all our trainees a broad and balanced curriculum that provides rewarding and stimulating activities to prepare them for the best social and cultural life.
Convergence Journalism
Bringing together multiple forms of media to tell a more effective story. Rather than just reading an article in a newspaper, news consumers read the article online, scroll through a slideshow.
Citizen Journalism
Journalism that is conducted by people who are not professional journalists but who disseminate information using Web sites, blogs,
Activist Media
Activist media refer to media forms that serve activist purposes. Activism can be radical or moderate; media have multiple forms. Activist Media focus on media activism over the past half-century tied to various social movements with an emphasis on contemporary protest movements and
Participatory Media
Communication media where the audience can play an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating content.
Specialized Broadcast Media
Specialized Media Services is a media planning and buying service that has been in business for over 27 years. We buy advertising for many types of clients including: retail, restaurants, security systems, Events and Political.
Social Media
Social media refers to the means of interactions among people in which they create, share, and/or exchange information and ideas in virtual communities and networks. The Office of Communications and Marketing manages the main Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube accounts.
Our Team
Greg Cussell
Greg Cussell is an entrepreneur, marketer and company founder.
Studied Multimedia Technology at Leeds and then went on to run his own creative and marketing digital agency which was later acquired. Over the past 15 years, he has founded businesses within digital marketing, health and fitness, start-up incubation as well as an advisor for private equity firms & mentoring all whilst rising through the ranks at a variety of digital advertising-technology marketing companies.
Previous Commercial & Digital Director at CNN, responsible for the EMEA region, managing a multi-million pound portfolio and a team across 10 countries. He was one of the first digital employees for CNN and played a major role in their monetisation and advertising technology strategy and commercial implementation.
Greg’s key clients were government institutions, financial institutions and technology companies. Greg has delivered on many Media first initiatives including the CNN Evolve programme that was in partnership with Afreximbank, a media first start up accelerator putting the spotlight on Africa’s rising tech companies. Greg lives and works in London, having grown up internationally, previously listed as one of the Digital Media Industry’s 30 under 30 rising stars.
Greg is now the co-founder and CEO of NokPay along with other founders who also built and founded Starling Bank (UK’s largest digital challenger bank) and Ziglu (UK’s first fully regulated fiat to crypto challenger bank recently acquired by RobinHood).
NokPay is a new digital Web3 and blockchain Ecosystem that comprises a universal digital currency, digital wallet, digital platform, Launchpad and NFT Platform all encompassed in one digital mobile application that will serve Africa in a variety of ways. In parallel, Nok will also Launch a Nok Academy with the vision and goal of taking African based startups into the world of ICO’s driving them all the way through to IPO’s. Driven with a strategic focus on shifting the global perception of Africa via media onto the ever flourishing tech scene across the continent. The Nok financial ecosystem will blend elements of fiat banking services (CeFi) and cryptocurrency/decentralised finance (DeFi), to bring traditional banking users and institutions together with disruptor technology in a constructive way, building an exciting digital future for the continent of Africa.
Our Co-curricular Activities
Athletics
Our students are passionate about sports and athletics and have the freedom to choose the one they like and wish to take up.
In-house Publications
We have several writers who are encouraged to come up with creations that are regularly published in our in-house magazines.
Performing Arts & Music
With professionals on board, we take pride in training our students in art forms like dance, drama, painting and more.