Olivia Crellin

Olivia Crellin is a freelance producer, on-air reporter and documentary filmmaker working primarily for the BBC World Service in London. She is an award-winning journalist specializing in international online and broadcast news. She also occasionally writes long-form non-fiction work. Her multimedia work has appeared in TIME, the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Guardian, Al Jazeera America, The New Internationalist, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, VICE News, AJ+, Global Post, The London Evening Standard, Reuters, PRI’s The World and CBC among others. She covers stories about human rights, women’s rights, immigration, world politics, the environment and social movements. A member of the Overseas Press Club, she is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese and holds degrees from the University of Cambridge and Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She’s reported from Chile, Ecuador, Brazil, Malawi, the Middle East and lived and worked in three major cities in the United States.

Olivia Crellin is a journalist and a documentary filmmaker – as well as the founder of PressPad, an award-winning social enterprise. She has written for the Guardian, The Economist, TIME Magazine, Reuters, the BBC and others. The situation with unpaid internships was so bad when she started out that she calculated that a one-way ticket to Chile would be a more cost-effective option, AND help her learn Spanish. After time in South America, she went on to graduate from Columbia Journalism School, before being lucky enough to do paid internships and fellowships in the US with the likes of VICE News, AJ+, the BBC Washington bureau and the Wall Street Journal. On returning to the UK Olivia got a staff job at the BBC and has since worked across radio, online and TV covering stories from Kenya to Kyrgyzstan for the World Service and BBC World News.