Bringing narrative to the unscripted

We specialise in cultural intelligence and specialist factual  for original TV, print, and digital media. We are an independent ideas company who bring narrative to unscripted storytelling through data-driven insights. We can collaborate with you to make good editorial decisions.

core team

  • Symeon Brown

    FOUNDER

  • Kwame Mante

    DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE

founder

Good Script was founded by Symeon Brown. 

Symeon Brown is a news correspondent on Channel 4 News and a BAFTA nominated TV executive.

Symeon was senior researcher of the award-winning study of the 2011 England riots by the London School of Economics and the Guardian newspaper. He previously worked for the Black Cultural Archives as an archivist.

Symeon's journalism has been nominated for the Orwell Prize, the British Journalism Awards and he is a recipient of an Edinburgh TV Festival Award. Symeon was previously a commissioning executive in specialist factual, news and current affairs at Channel 4. He has also won the Medical Journalists Association Award for broadcasting and been selected as One to Watch at the Edinburgh TV Festival.

Symeon has reported from the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa. He also  presents films for Channel 4’s international documentary strand Unreported World. His film investigating faith and evangelical extremism in Kenya was shortlisted for a Sandford St. Martin Award for excellence in broadcasting on religion and ethics. Symeon’s global reporting specialising on race, religion and class have gathered millions of digital views.

Symeon was the executive editor-in-chief of the BAFTA nominated Channel 4 News Special Programme: Black to Front’ and was a commissioning executive in the team who launched Channel 4’s youth current affairs strand Untold.

Symeon has reported extensively on the black Atlantic and has interviewed leading black American artists and thinkers such as Ava DuVernay, Mickalene Thomas and John David Washington.

Symeon is also a  specialist researcher. He is a Churchill Fellow who sponsored his research on how the black elite wields power in the US that engaged with major black institutions like Morehouse College and Jack & Jill of America. As a researcher and reporter of black British current affairs and has covered the Windrush Scandal, the Black Lives Matter movement, racial civil rights and black British arts.

Symeon has interviewed major black British figures including Kano, Claudette Johnson, Ghetts, John Boyega, General Levy, Diane Abbott, Paapa Essiedu and Ian Wright. Symeon was a founding member of the Black Writers’ Guild and is currently overseeing the largest dataset of the black British middle classes.