Hannah Storm, Journalist, Award winning Author, Founder & Co-Director of Headlines Network - “Emotional Flak Jacket: Tales of a Journalist”

Hannah is the Founder and Co-Director of Headlines Network, a media consultant and journalist with more than two decades of experience working in the international news industry. She is the former CEO of the International News Safety Institute and the Ethical Journalism Network, as well as a sought-after speaker, facilitator, trainer and writer. 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 combines her expertise in journalism with her lived experience of PTSD and surviving sexual assault, to work with newsrooms to create cultures where people feel safer sharing their experiences. She set up Headlines Network in 2021, with the aim of promoting more open conversations around mental health in journalism through a podcast, tips and training. Hannah is also a qualified Mental Health First Aider with MHFA England. She began her career at Reuters, and has worked for other news organisations including The Times, ITV News, Channel 4 News, and the BBC, as a staff and freelance journalist, covering stories including environmental disasters, civil unrest, gender-based violence, sport, politics, climate change, humanitarian crises, and more. Outside her journalism work, she’s an award-winning author of flash fiction and an accomplished marathon runner, having notched up 19 marathons or ultra-marathons, and she finds writing and running hugely beneficial for her mental health.