Talk
Who gets to matter
How the choices behind every story decide who an audience cares about.
Journalist · Speaker · Trainer
Helping journalism see the people it overlooks,
because what isn't covered with care simply disappears from the world's attention.
Recent stages: Skoll Week · PeaceCon · b° future festival
often on the move: maybe I'm passing through your city?
01 / Speaking
Invite me to speak
I give talks, join panels and lead conversations on how journalism decides who matters, and what that costs the people left out of the story.
I bring stories from newsrooms and communities, not slides full of theory, and I leave people with something they can use in their work the next day.
- Talk
- Panel
- Moderation
- Talk + workshop
Talk
Beyond the victim
Covering people as people who act, choose and resist.
Talk
Problems and possibilities
Why reporting on responses, not only problems, changes what audiences do next.
02 / Work together
Other ways to work together
I work with people and organisations who want to take journalism seriously, not just as a product, but as a responsibility.
For newsrooms, universities, NGOs
Training and workshops
Structured, reflective training on how the choices behind a story decide who gets seen.
Training →For teams and individuals
Consulting and mentoring
Focused help on one question, or ongoing support to rethink how you work.
Consulting →For projects that don't fit a box
Writing and collaborations
Writing with or for your organisation, or a project you think I'd be right for. I'd love to hear about it, even if it doesn't fit any box here.
Tell me about it →Record · Méline Laffabry
On the move · EN / FR / ES
Stages
- 2026 · Co-host, "Media That Moves Systems: Bridging Journalism, Storytelling, and Social Change", with The Sidebar, Skoll Week, Oxford (UK)
- 2025 · Trainer and host, "Beyond the victim: reporting on women affected by conflict through a solutions lens", Solutions Journalism Network Global Female Trainers Fund (online)
- 2024 · Panel speaker, "How narratives connect neighbours", b° future festival, Bonn Institute (Germany)
- 2024 · Host, "(Story) Telling Your Peace" workshop, PeaceCon, Alliance for Peacebuilding and USIP (online)
- 2023 · Workshop host, "Focusing on human experiences and solutions", b° future festival, Bonn Institute (Germany)
- Host, One Voice at a Time (podcast)
Training
- 270+ people trained in the last four years
- Accredited trainer, Solutions Journalism Network: solutions journalism (2023) and Complicating the Narratives (2024)
- Accredited trainer in risk assessment for journalists' safety, European Federation of Journalists and Cadre Consultant (2021)
- University lecturer since 2022: solutions journalism, journalists' safety, constructive approaches to reporting social conflict, and planetary challenges
- Gender equality mentor, Rewrite the Story, International Federation of Journalists (2023-2024)
Background
- Reporter and podcast producer in France, Chile, Denmark and Poland, including for Arte, La Pública and respect
- Erasmus Mundus master's in journalism, media and globalisation (Aarhus, Swansea, Santiago), specialising in war and conflict reporting
- Founder, aidóni, est. 2022
- French, English, Spanish
03 / What I stand for
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I believe journalism is, at its core, a profession of care and connection. It should represent people fairly and accurately, not flatten them into stereotypes. It should inform people about the problems and risks they face, and just as much about the solutions and possibilities available to them. And it should honour agency on both sides: portraying the people in a story as people who act, choose and resist, not only as victims of circumstance, while equipping its audience with that same sense of agency: the understanding and confidence to act in their own world too.
04 / aidóni
Where I put this into practice
In 2022 I founded aidóni. It's where everything I believe about journalism gets tested in the hardest place to practise it: crisis and conflict reporting.
aidóni brings together community members, agents of change, researchers, storysharers and journalists from very different backgrounds, in its conversations, its events and its own team, to rethink and reshape crisis and conflict journalism so it's more people-centred, constructive, inclusive and solutions-oriented.
The guides
Collaborative Guides
Practical guides for journalists, written together, through open workshops and co-writing groups, with people who know the subject from the inside.
The podcasts
One Voice at a Time and What's the Word?
Two podcasts where journalists, and the people their stories are about, talk about how those stories get told.
The conversations
Conversations
Formats and spaces where people with direct lived experience, agents of change, academics and journalists come together to learn from one another and think together.
05 / Contact
Write to me
A talk, a training, a project that doesn't fit a box. Tell me what you're working on and who it's for.
I'm often on the move. Get in touch to see if I'm passing through your city soon, and if I'm not, maybe we can make it happen. I'm happy to work online too.
For a talk, it helps to know
- 01 · The event and who'll be in the room
- 02 · Date and city, or online
- 03 · Format and length
- 04 · Language: EN, FR or ES
I'm often on the road, so it might take me a little while to get back to you, but I'll read your message and answer as soon as I can