Today’s guest has rural roots that keep her sane, especially at the moment.

Stephanie is the Senior Editor for the Asia Pacific at a group called Storyful: A News and Intelligence Agency.

Each day from her home in Sydney, she verifies content on social media before distributing it to news organisations all over the world. It’s a media role that would not have existed 10 years ago, and as you will learn, her task of fact checking grass roots content is so important in the process of getting stories of things like – the war in Ukraine – to air in an accurate manner.

I’ve been thinking of her, in the last few weeks, it would have been so intense.

Outside of her work with Storyful, Steph has led an extraordinary career which has taken her from her home town of Gunnedah to the newsrooms of Prime News initially then the BBC, SkyNews London, Al Jazeera English and she’s been a supervising producer with Channel 7’s Sunrise. She’s worked with TV teams in Mongolia and Bangladesh for World Vision and Solomon Islands with Unicef.

Steph is a TedX talker - and now she has a podcast of her own – And We’re Rolling – which interviews some of the best female correspondents, presenters and reporters in the world.

Thank you to the CWA of NSW – Celebrating 100 years in 2022 for supporting this series of Company.

You can get more Company goodness by signing up to the newsletter at mansonandcompany.com