Nicky Cox MBE and Simona Karabyn

Nicky Cox is founder and editor of children’s newspaper 'First News' which reaches 2.6m+ readers a week in more than a third of UK schools. She is also CEO of Fresh Start Media, specialising in making programmes with young people for young people – like Sky TV’s 'FYI'. For 13 years, she was editorial director of BBC Worldwide’s children’s division – contributing BBCWW funds to CBBC shows, and heading up the brand development of BBC assets into magazines, books, audio, toys, games and other products. She is a special adviser to Unicef, patron of the British Citizen Youth Awards and Ambassador of the Global Teacher Prize. She has a quality control panel in her own four children!

Simona Karabyn joined Fresh Start Media in 2019, and has worked primarily as the co-Producer and Programme Editor of weekly Sky News and Sky kids news show, 'FYI', alongside Executive Producer, Chris Rogers. Prior to joining Fresh Start Media, Simona worked as a freelance Television Producer. She brings varied TV genre experience to her role. Beginning her television career in Entertainment, she worked on prime-time shows, (BBC One’s 'Strictly Come Dancing' and ITV’s 'Britain’s Got Talent'), before moving into Factual (Channel 4’s award winning 'The Secret Life of 4 & 5 year-olds'), and live studio, Current Affairs and Consumer programmes (BBC One’s 'Watchdog’s Rogue Traders' and 'The One Show').