Luke Waters – Founding Director, Senior Journalist and Trainer
Senior, award winning journalist Luke Waters is the founding director of Saltwater Media Solutions Pty Ltd. He has qualifications in journalism, accreditation in Workplace Training and Assessment and formal training in Risk Management. He has successfully delivered media training and strategic advice to clients throughout Australia and internationally.
Luke’s distinguished journalism career landed him in some of the world’s most complex, diverse and volatile events. From boardrooms to battlefields, elections to elite sport he’s interviewed the intriguing and the powerful – among them, Governors General, gangland figures, ISIS operatives – even a dictator.
The unique experiences also exposed Luke to world-leading strategic media management at the coalface of history-defining events including;
- Syria’s War
- Israel/Hamas conflict, Middle East
- Death of Nelson Mandela, South Africa
- Bali Nine executions, Indonesia
- Gangs, guns and Africa’s culture of fear
- Cyclone Pam recovery – South Pacific
- Black Saturday & various natural disasters
- Australian Federal and state elections
- Melbourne gangland wars
- ISIS in Australia & Middle East
- Elite sport across multiple codes
- Indonesia’s barbaric mental health regime
- International Election campaigns
- People smuggling- Asia Pacific & Australia