November 7, 2024
We’re delighted to have two venerable British journalists joining us on stage at the World Media Awards this year. Anne McElvoy, Executive Editor and Head of Audio at POLITICO is our host for the World Media Awards ceremony. Anne is Executive Editor and Head of Audio at POLITICO. Based in London, she oversees POLITICO’s podcasting output across the United Kingdom and Europe alongside the publication’s global expansion of audio products.
Anne was previously Executive Editor for Strategy at The Economist and host of the award-winning The Economist Asks podcast. She is an established broadcaster and columnist, who regularly contributes to the Evening Standard, BBC Radio 4 and other publications.
Anne will not only be our host for the evening; she will also be conducting an exclusive on-stage interview with Joanna Carr, Head of Current Affairs for BBC News. Joanna oversees the BBC’s Panorama and BBC News’ Long Form Audio department. She is also the Commissioner for network TV Current Affairs for BBCs 1, 2,3 and iPlayer. This year, her team won the BAFTA award for Best Current Affairs for This World: The Shamima Begum Story, and she recently commissioned the documentary Al Fayed: Predator at Harrods.
Between 2009-2016, Joanna was Editor of PM, iPM and Broadcasting House on Radio 4, where she and the team won 4 Gold Radio Academy Awards in 5 years, including Best News and Current Affairs Programme. She conceived and edited The Robert Peston Interview Show (with Eddie Mair). Joanna joined the BBC in 1997 as a news trainee, and worked on the World at One/ PM and Newsnight as a producer, before moving to BBC1 for the launch of the Politics Show. She has worked in Washington DC as Justin Webb’s producer.
Joanna will discuss the challenges that journalists and marketers face when it comes to crafting storytelling that has the power to cut through the noise. Drawing on Joanna’s experience commissioning current affairs content for the BBC, Anne will dig into how Joanna identifies the stories she knows will resonate with an audience, how she develops the hook to bring that audience in, and how she finds the angle to tell the story from the most engaging perspective. It promises to be a memorable evening so if you haven’t already booked your tickets, they are available here