About

Nina Robinson on the Podcasting Seriously Awards Fund, which helps under represented voices enter podcast awards.

CEO and FOUNDER : NINA ROBINSON

Winner of a prestigious Peabody Award and recognised with a Foreign Press Association prize for the innovative documentary, ‘Chicago Dog Fighting’, Nina travelled the world for BBC World Service in a career which spanned radio, TV, digital and social media. She was based in Kingston, Jamaica as a foreign correspondent and was a Newsbeat reporter for BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra. She was awarded a Fellowship by The Radio Academy – the highest accolade awarded by UK’s radio industry in 2023. She is former Board Director for the audio industry trade body Audio UK and currently sits on their Charter Renewal Group. She is also a Fellow of the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity and is a passionate advocate for diversity in the UK media industry. She founded the Uni Pod Festival which promotes podcasting among 16-25 year olds in a day of workshops, panels and masterclasses on podcasts and content creation at Birmingham City University. She writes for the Representology Journal and is writing a book on media diversity in British news. Nina was born and brought up in the West Midlands and attended a comprehensive school there before she gained a place at Oxford University to study Philosophy, Politics and Economics. Nina is UK ambassador for the Podcasting, Seriously Award Fund for which Soundtruism is a media partner. Nina is Head Judge for many of the UK’s top podcast industry awards including the ARIAs and APAs.

Testimonials

On BBC Iran Discussion: I wanted to say a heartfelt thank you for the Iran programme. Creating such an intimate and spontaneous tone took real skill – both in terms of the technical challenges which you so deftly overcame and in terms of the warmth, expertise and authenticity the presenter brought to her role. It would be great to work with you again.

On BBC Sports Commonwealth Games Documentary:
Huge thanks, Nina, and a pleasure working with you.

- Editor and Commissioner BBC World Service Documentaries

On BBC Afghan Sikhs Documentary: I know you pulled out all the stops to get this done to a tight deadline and you really delivered. You grabbed us from the top and the structure kept our attention. The use of music was well judged and there were some lovely production touches. The voiceovers in particular were so well-done, they made sure the connection between the listener and contributor never got lost in translation.
Thanks to you all. You should feel proud of your work telling this important story.

- Content Editor, BBC World Service Religion & Ethics

Nina was extremely professional and proactive in her approach to creating a social media video for us to promote women's rights in international law.

She wrapped her head around the brief quickly and was really able to understand how to pitch this for maximum impact. We were really pleased with the end result.

Nina made the whole process very simple and stress-free.

- Policy Officer, Women's Resource Centre

I know we try not to make too much of a fuss of awards, but the Peabody Award does not come lightly.

So, I just wanted to say thank you for helping the BBC to win the Public Service Award and for delivering coverage of the European migrant crisis that has got the recognition it surely deserved.

Thank you for setting that standard.

Peabody, called it ‘the gold standard...richly detailed, deeply humane reporting’.

- Directors, BBC News and Current Affairs