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Michelle Brister

Head of audience development
Michelle Brister

About Me

Michelle can mentor on working well with stakeholders across the business and newsroom (bridge role), developing high-performance teams, using product/design thinking frameworks in the newsroom, working on transformation to audience-first journalism, and engaging audiences using social media, newsletters and community.

I Can Mentor On:

Audience Engagement

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