WOMEN IN BUSINESS
A passion for storytelling F
rom writing poems and short stories for school competitions to drafting press releases for PR clients, storytelling has always been an important part of Teresa Green’s life.
As media relations partner at Worcestershire-based Chris Green Media (CGM), she works with businesses and organisations to tell their story, using the skills she learned as a journalist for more than 20 years. After studying newspaper journalism in Cardiff, Teresa’s working life began as a trainee reporter at the Bromsgrove Advertiser/Messenger in 1987. As well as the usual parish council meetings and weddings, she reported on boy band Bros appearing on Saturday morning TV live from Avoncroft Museum of Buildings and once worked a busy weekend shift at McDonald’s in the High Street. “What I really wanted to report on was sport and fortunately the sports editor’s job came up after I’d only been working at the paper for nine months,” she said. “Now I was one of just a handful of female sports editors in the UK, reporting on Bromsgrove Rovers’ matches in the Southern League and producing four pages full of sports results every week. “Fortunately, my time at the Advertiser coincided with the most successful period in the club’s history as they finished second behind Wycombe Wanderers in their first season in the Vauxhall Conference and came within two minutes of beating Barnsley in the FA Cup third round. I also met my husband Chris when he was reporting on Rovers for BBC Hereford and Worcester.”
6 Completely Bromsgrove
Teresa won four national sports writing awards during her 13 years with the paper and among her colleagues was legendary chief reporter Pete Lammas. “It used to take Pete ages to walk down the High Street every lunchtime because he knew so many people in the town and they kept coming up to him with stories. The one I always remember is someone saying that their neighbour must have won the lottery because they’d been spotted buying ham instead of tongue in Asda!” In 2000, Teresa moved to a sports writer’s role at the Sunday Mercury in Birmingham, reporting on Premier League and Championship football matches and Test cricket and compiling a monthly non-League football magazine, Grass Roots. She was then assistant editor of the Kidderminster Shuttle for six years, also branching out into travel journalism, before joining CGM in 2010. “We’re proud to have been helping people with everything front facing about their business for more than ten years,” she said. “Last year we moved our media training events and courses online and are committed to keeping them there until the end of 2021. We’ve also been busy editing books and recently finished updating the Welcome to Worcestershire guide Chris and I wrote for Kingfisher Visitor Guides two years ago. It will be so nice to visit some of the wonderful places we’ve featured – including Avoncroft of course – when restrictions are lifted.”
