Hannah Storm is a media consultant, who specialises in journalism safety, mental health, and empathetic leadership. She works with newsrooms around the world to create spaces where everyone feels safe to share their experiences of mental health and where leaders recognise the value of normalising conversations around wellbeing for their people and our profession. A sought-after facilitator and speaker, who shares her own story of recovery from complex trauma, Hannah is the founder and co-director of Headlines Network, which promotes more open conversations about mental health in journalism, through workshops, tips and a podcast. She is also the former CEO of the International News Safety Institute and the Ethical Journalism Network. Hannah co-authored the first study into moral injury and the media for the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism with Professor Anthony Feinstein and has written extensively at the intersection of gender, mental health, physical and online safety. She has authored a book for Routledge– A practical guide for journalists on mental health – to be published in early 2024. In addition to her media and mental health work, she's an award-winning author of flash fiction and an accomplished marathon runner, finding writing and running hugely beneficial for her wellbeing.
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LVR LandesMuseum
// Auditorium
Festival ticket required
With Hannah Storm
In this keynote, Hannah Storm will share how her mental health journey has taught her about the power of empathy in newsrooms, and how when we create cultures where people feel safe to share their stories, our journalists and journalism can thrive.
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Design Offices
// Training Room
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With Irene Caselli, Lea Thies, Chiponda Chimbelu and Hannah Storm
What's the way forward to ensure that journalists can keep doing their job and staying connected with their audience during tough times?