Thomas Heath – our training specialist – has devised a new course that tackles everything you need to know about effective written communications in five steps: outcome, audience, concept, structure and language.

He put it to the test with four days of pilot workshops for technical proposal writers at Aviva. And they loved it: feedback forms with ticks in all the right places and sincere use of the word 'inspirational'.

Echosix anchorman and actor Simon Morgan has been been filming scenes 50ft under the river Thames (in the Greenwich foot tunnel so he didn't get wet) for a forthcoming new thriller. He's starring alongside actor Jimmy Jean Louise, of hit TV's Heroes fame.

He's also been working as a corporate interviewer for award-winning internet TV company Multichannel TV.

The Wallpaper* City Guide to Florence – written by Echosix director Jonathan Lee – is out now in all proper bookshops.

The publication is the second Wallpaper* work from the Echosix stable following the hit title, City Guide to Bologna. More on our previous Wallpaper* projects.

Echosix director Jonathan Lee was sent to investigate some ghoulish goings-on on Dartmoor in Devon.

The result? A spiffing Hound of the Baskerville-inspired feature for The Guardian, published in its Halloween 2009 issue. Read the article.

Echosix director Kieran Wyatt is halfway through a consultancy stint at BBC Mobile, advising on editorial strategy and managing a number of top-secret projects.

He's providing editorial leadership across their mobile platforms division, working out ways to increase reach and quality. Visit BBC Mobile.

Gita Raval – Echosix’s autocue specialist – gave the good listeners of Radio 4 an insight into the world of high-pressure speeches.

Gita spoke volubly on the PM programme on March 19th – without the aid of an autocue – about her scrolling experiences with the likes of Michael Jackson and Tony Blair. Suffice to say, the appearance has made her something of a celeb in the autocue world.