Rozina Breen

Rozina Breen is an award-winning editor with a track record of audience growth, creative storytelling, and strategic partnerships. A former editor-in-chief and CEO at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, leading strategic and digital transformation at the U.K.’s largest local-to-global investigative newsroom, Breen also brings significant editorial leadership from the BBC, where she ran the U.K.’s largest network newsroom outside of London as head of news at BBC 5 Live. There she set a distinctive and creative current affairs agenda, overseeing the station’s news output, including political and business programming as well as a 24/7 breaking news operation. She commissioned an award-winning audio slate, including Brexitcast, You, Me and the Big C, The Sista Collective, and Hope High, which went onto win an Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils. Rozina also launched the DigiHub for the BBC World Service, developing and innovating global journalism for digital, social, and online platforms across multiple geographies including Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Americas, and Europe and growing BBC News’s digital footprint across the world. She has a reputation for multi-platform collaboration, innovation, and commissioning through a diverse lens.