Women now run some of the world’s most high-profile newsrooms, including the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the Economist and Reuters. But research suggests that women are still underrepresen...
Blathnaid Healy
Blathnaid Healy has more than 15 years’ editorial and operational experience in media organisations and a track record of leading digital transformation in legacy newsrooms, start-ups and scale-ups. She recently joined BBC News as Executive Digital News Editor leading the Social, Growth and Delivery teams.
Previously as CNN’s Senior Director, EMEA, Blathnaid led a multi-award-winning team of digital journalists and editors located across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She also had oversight of CNN’s multi-platform global gender reporting unit, As Equals. Prior to CNN, Blathnaid was Mashable’s first UK Editor where she launched and editorially directed the digital publisher’s UK site. She also served as Chief Operating Officer for Dublin-based start-up WorldIrish. Blathnaid started her career at RTÉ in Ireland where she spent five years working across the organisation’s digital platforms. She is currently an Executive MBA candidate at Trinity College Dublin.
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There’s been a low level hum in the industry for a long time about the need to shift the culture of newsrooms, and it’s getting a lot louder. There are many pain points: inter-generational tension...
The relationship between platforms and publishers is a defining feature of journalism today. What is the state of the relationship across editorial, data-sharing, product development, and business rel...
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 ...
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...
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