Deborah Kelly

Director of Training and Communications - Thomson Foundation

Deborah oversees Thomson’s blended learning approach through its e-learning platform Journalism Now and in-person training programmes focusing on environmental journalism, mobile journalism and multi-platform storytelling. She has worked with journalists in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, the EU, the Middle East and several Asian counties. A journalist for more than 30 years, Deborah held senior editorial roles at the UK’s commercial news broadcaster ITV news, worked as a Programme Editor for Al Jazeera English and for the BBC and Thomson Reuters. Before joining Thomson, she was senior lecturer at one of the UK’s leading journalism universities and is a fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.