The 19th is excited to announce that Hannah Bernstein is joining the audience team as our first audience growth manager. 

Bernstein has worked at Internews’ Earth Journalism Network for the last five years, where she has led marketing strategies, journalism fellowship programs and piloted a journalist-creator partnership program in Southeast Asia. In that role, she directed funding to journalism initiatives on six continents and mentored dozens of reporters investigating environmental and climate stories around the world. She’s spoken at several conferences, including the Society of Environmental Journalists and the International Journalism Festival in Perugia, Italy, where she recently presented on a panel about audience-centered journalism.

She is an advocate for journalism that serves communities on the frontlines of the world’s most pressing challenges, and has conducted numerous campaigns, research reports and events focused on ways that journalists and newsrooms can measure, track and catalyze impact for those who most need it.

Before her tenure at EJN, she has held various jobs across media, communications and nonprofits, including freelance journalist, fact-checker, proofreader and communications strategist; All of which have given her insight into many different approaches to journalism that meet reader needs.

Bernstein grew up in Minnesota, and remains a proud Midwesterner despite living in Boston and Orlando, Florida, where she lives with her spouse and three cats. In her spare time, she enjoys science podcasts, historical fiction books and spending time with her best friend, a horse named Buckeye.

Please join us in welcoming Hannah Bernstein as The 19th’s new audience growth manager!