Irene Caselli

I am an experienced multimedia reporter and writer now focusing on sexuality, women’s rights and early childhood.
Earlier in my career I spent a decade as a foreign correspondent in Latin America. I worked for the BBC in Venezuela when Hugo Chávez died, and my work has appeared in numerous publications, including the Washington Post, The Guardian and El País.
In 2019 I was hired as the “First 1,000 Days” correspondent for The Correspondent, a transnational, member-funded platform. I was one of just five staff writers chosen among 2,000 applicants. When The Correspondent shut down in December 2020, I launched my newsletter, The First 1,000 Days.
I published a chapter in Unbias the News, a book that focuses on how to have more diversity in newsrooms. I also co-produced a half-hour documentary on women’s football and gender inequality, and one of my team’s short films on the same subject received a prize for collaborative journalism.
I have been awarded fellowships by the IWMF, the European Journalism Centre, and the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. I moderate panels at festivals, regularly teach journalism and mentor up-and-coming journalists. I speak six languages, and am now learning Greek. In my free time, I write stories for children that I like to test out with my son Lorenzo.