06/01/2026
Lots of people say they couldn't do it.
But for us, being partners in life and in business has seen us grow a successful journalist-led PR and marketing consultancy which last year celebrated its best year ever.
Mark Waugh and I set up Be Bold Media in 2011 after I left my role as Business Editor of the Shropshire Star . But we had worked together in a busy newsroom producing eight editions a day for a decade before that too - so certainly a partnership forged in headlines and deadlines!
In 2026, we don't just celebrate 15 years in business but more than 20 working together (and 27 years married!). But in all that time, we've never lost our ambition for our business, for the team we work with and the clients we serve.
We've big plans as part of our 15th anniversary of Be Bold Media - watch this space 😉
(Huge thanks to photographer Claudiu Novac for capturing these images - it's really rare for us to be at the same event at the same time - and to the brilliant Chris Smith and the Centre for the New Midlands team for the invite to the Winter Reception at the House of Commons.
Amy Waugh
