Rozina Breen

Notable work and positions

Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting - Director of Editorial (Global)
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - CEO and Editor-in-Chief (2022-2025)
BBC - Head of News, BBC Radio 5 Live; Head of England/North; Digital Editor, BBC World Service

Biography

Rozina Breen is a media executive and journalist who serves as director of editorial (global) for the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in drama and English from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and a master's degree in communication and media studies from the University of Leeds. At the BBC, she ran the corporation's largest network newsroom outside London as head of news at BBC Radio 5 Live, overseeing political, business and breaking-news programming and commissioning an award-winning slate of audio projects, including Brexitcast and Hope High, which won an Orwell Prize for exposing Britain's social evils; she also launched a digital hub for the BBC World Service, grew BBC News's Instagram following from 700,000 to over two million, and led My Bradford, a citizen-journalism hyperlocal project that won a regional press award in its first year. In February 2022 she left the BBC to become CEO and editor-in-chief of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ), the UK's largest local-to-global investigative newsroom, leading its strategic and digital transformation until 2025. She subsequently joined the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting as director of editorial for its global operations.