One of the greatest challenges in development reporting is creating connections. How can journalists build strong links between people from both sides of the world and make them relate to topics that ...
Blathnaid Healy
Blathnaid Healy is Director, EMEA CNN Digital International, based in the London bureau.
She was previously UK Editor at Mashable, establishing the brand and opening its first office in London. Before Mashable, Healy was Chief Operating Officer of WorldIrish, a startup focused on the Irish diaspora where she led a team of journalists based in Ireland, the UK and the US.
She spent almost five years working at Ireland's largest media company RTE as a multimedia journalist where she also set up the broadcaster's first dedicated social media team and project managed output for several high-profile news events across web, mobile and social media.
Healy is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism and University College Dublin.
Events IJF 2019
Large, global media companies are pursuing new audiences in a more localised way, tailoring offerings for different territories. How local should these global players go. Are these offerings disruptiv...
We are arguably in the golden age of audience-engaged journalism. But the growing problem of online harassment is troubling individual journalists and newsrooms alike. It's an issue confronted by both...
