In late 2019, the Membership Puzzle Project reported on newsrooms around the world that are working in dramatically different ways from their peers. They have memberful routines that incorporate commu...
Miriam Wells
Miriam Wells took up the newly-created role of Impact Editor at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in June 2019, after three years as production editor. She has built a strategy to take the Bureau's work off the page and into the world, ensuring through a collaborative and creative approach that it connects with key audiences, benefits affected communities and helps drive top-down and bottom-up change.
Prior to working at the Bureau Miriam worked as an editor at Vice News, as a correspondent in Latin America for international outlets and as a consultant at Human Rights Watch. She started her career at the Argus newspaper in Brighton and Hove before spending four years working for BBC radio. Miriam hopes there will be many more impact editors in newsrooms in years to come and would love to talk to anyone at Perugia interested in the role journalism plays in society, and how to play that role better.
Making impact: what it means, why it matters & lessons we can learn from the documentary film industry
This session will showcase some inspiring examples of journalism driving change and discuss what "making a difference" with journalism really means (clue - it's bottom up as well as top down). We'll d...