Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol is a journalist and media leader, focused on developing people-first leadership in newsrooms, improving our industry's organizational culture, management skills and relationships within and without. She was a co-founder of LinkedIn's editorial team and led until December 2019 its global expansion to 70 editors in seven languages across Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia. She is now an independent writer, consultant on media leadership and innovation, and journalism instructor.
Isabelle got her start in traditional ink-on-fingers news; she received a Bachelor’s of Journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia and worked as a reporter and editor at The Columbia Missourian, The Cambodia Daily and Le Figaro. She’s lived in the US, Paris, Sydney, Phnom Penh and now calls London home.
Engaged journalism: how do we create news with the audience we have, and with the audiences we have yet to reach?
Journalists can no longer stay at the top of the mountain, broadcasting down the news they choose to a passive audience. We know we must work in the midst of our audience and work with and for the pub...
Apple, LinkedIn, Flipboard... more tech companies are hiring journalists to do precisely that — be journalists. They're curating news, reporting original stories and giving editorial direction to ne...
Journalists are being overwhelmed by the information they are asked to process in their working day and want to explore solutions with third-party news providers and management to make it more managea...
Disappearing act: what the decline of local beat journalists means for our democracies
Local newspapers have historically played a hugely important role in holding local elected representatives to account, unmasking dodgy councillors, nefarious property developers and more. It is these ...
Expanding global reach, going into non-English markets, tailoring content to the needs of diverse audiences around the world, working with cross-functional, distributed teams across several countries ...
