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TRAINING
Onboarding, corporate training and workshops.
Practical sessions in delivery, voice, listening and presentation.
AKIE FUNAHASHI舟橋明慧
Interviewer / Moderator / Communication Professional
Former News Anchor
Listen. Communicate.
And connect.
Drawing on my years as a news anchor in broadcast journalism, I now work as an interviewer, MC and communication professional.
ABOUT
AKIE FUNAHASHI
Interviewer / Moderator / Communication Professional
I spent around 15 years as a news anchor in broadcast journalism — terrestrial news programmes, government productions, and reporting in Japan and abroad.
Since then I have expanded my work into corporate communications, content production and events. Today I work as an interviewer, MC and moderator, and corporate trainer — always with people and words.
At the heart of my work is careful listening — drawing out what someone wants to say, and helping shape it into words that sound like them.
WHAT I DO
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INTERVIEW
Reporting, conversations and corporate interviews.
Drawing out what someone has to say, and shaping it so it lands.
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MC / MODERATOR
Hosting and moderating events, talk sessions and corporate gatherings.
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FOR INDIVIDUALS
One-to-one sessions to organise your thoughts,
and find words that are your own.
EXPERIENCE
15+
YEARS IN
BROADCAST & COMMUNICATION
Over 15 years working in broadcast and communication.
Online news programme
London Bureau Chief | 2 years
NEWS / BROADCAST
Nippon TV NEWS24
National terrestrial news
Election coverage & business segments
REPORTING
G7 on-site reporting
Biarritz / Hiroshima
GOVERNMENT
CONTENT
Government Internet TV
National Tax Agency Web-TAX-TV
COMMUNICATION
Corporate communications
Content production
Events / Training
SELECTED WORK
Selected projects, stories & experiments.
PROFESSIONAL WORK
NEWS / REPORTING
G7 Biarritz Summit
On-site reporting.
MORE IN WORK →
MC / MODERATION
Corporate Events & Talk Sessions
Hosting press conferences, ceremonies and talk sessions.
MORE IN WORK →
NEWS / BROADCAST
News Anchor
News anchor / Election coverage
Nippon TV NEWS24 / Terrestrial news
Government Internet TV
PROJECTS & EXPERIMENTS
Tools I wished existed for communicating —
from field-ready utilities to pieces made as works.
TOOL / EVENT PRODUCTION
Rundown Builder
Type in the programme and it lays out the running order with clock times, then drafts the MC script. The way a broadcast rundown is built, moved into the browser.
TRY IT →
WEB / EVENT OPERATIONS
Interactive Event Handbook
A web handbook for running the day, built to read well on a phone. Tap a name and that person’s schedule and to-dos come up at a glance.
View →
TEMPLATE / EVENT OPERATIONS
Event Operations Base Sheet
Everything needed to run a 300-guest, single-day event, in eight sheets. Fill the blanks and it becomes the run sheet for the day.
View →
SYSTEM / EVENT CHECK-IN
How the QR Check-in Works
One scan and check-in is done. Keep the sign-up form you already use, with zero external calls at the moment of check-in.
View →
CODE / CREATIVE
Bluebell Hollow
An English bluebell wood drawn entirely in code — no photographs, no generated images.
View →LET'S TALK.
For enquiries about work, interviews, training or events,
please feel free to get in touch.