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Hi, I’m Emma Dixon. I’m a senior communications leader heading the UK press team at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). I’m driven by clear storytelling, reputational stewardship and results that support humanitarian action. Before MSF, I spent 12+ years at the BBC as an editor, senior producer and digital journalist, covering radio, TV, podcasts and digital. I’ve led teams through high-pressure news cycles, managed reputational risk, and worked across global crises with a focus on accuracy, impact and audience reach.…Hi, I’m Emma Dixon. I’m a senior communications leader heading the UK press team at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). I’m driven by clear storytelling, reputational stewardship and results that support humanitarian action. Before MSF, I spent 12+ years at the BBC as an editor, senior producer and digital journalist, covering radio, TV, podcasts and digital. I’ve led teams through high-pressure news cycles, managed reputational risk, and worked across global crises with a focus on accuracy, impact and audience reach.

Emma Dixon

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Hi, I’m Emma Dixon. I’m a senior communications leader heading the UK press team at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). I’m driven by clear storytelling, reputational stewardship and results that support humanitarian action. Before MSF, I spent 12+ years at the BBC as an editor, senior producer and digital journalist, covering radio, TV, podcasts and digital. I’ve led teams through high-pressure news cycles, managed reputational risk, and worked across global crises with a focus on accuracy, impact and audience reach.…Hi, I’m Emma Dixon. I’m a senior communications leader heading the UK press team at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). I’m driven by clear storytelling, reputational stewardship and results that support humanitarian action. Before MSF, I spent 12+ years at the BBC as an editor, senior producer and digital journalist, covering radio, TV, podcasts and digital. I’ve led teams through high-pressure news cycles, managed reputational risk, and worked across global crises with a focus on accuracy, impact and audience reach.

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Hi, I’m Emma Dixon. I’m a senior communications leader heading the UK press team at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). I’m driven by clear storytelling, reputational stewardship and results that support humanitarian action.

Before MSF, I spent 12+ years at the BBC as an editor, senior producer and digital journalist, covering radio, TV, podcasts and digital. I’ve led teams through high-pressure news cycles, managed reputational risk, and worked across global crises with a focus on accuracy, impact and audience reach.

Skills

Experience Level

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

Expert

DaVinci Resolve Studio

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Intermediate

Language

Arabic

Beginner

German

Beginner

Work Experience

Head of Media, UK at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

September 1, 2023 - Present

Lead the UK press team, manage reputational risk and crisis communications; deputise for the Director of Communications; develop and implement UK media strategy; coordinate with fundraising and international MSF colleagues; oversee staff welfare and budgets.

Senior Journalist / Output Editor – BBC World Service (OS) at BBC World Service

October 1, 2022 - June 1, 2023

Output edited and senior produced a live two-hour daily radio programme; led a team of five producers, commissioned ideas, allocated workloads, and upheld editorial and legal standards for live output.

Editor – BBC World Service, Creative Challenge at BBC World Service

April 1, 2021 - October 1, 2021

Edited the BBC News annual anonymous ideas competition; supported new and diverse talent; provided editorial, legal and budget oversight; part of the senior commissioning team overseeing projects.

Senior Impact Journalist – BBC Panorama at BBC Panorama

March 1, 2018 - April 1, 2021

Led Panorama’s impact, communications and digital strategy; expanded reach to new audiences; line managed staff; repurposed flagship investigations across radio, TV and digital; produced the Panorama episode on the death of George Floyd; commissioned Panorama’s first podcast, ‘I’m Not a Monster’.

Senior Journalist – BBC World Service (OS) at BBC World Service

April 1, 2017 - March 1, 2018

Produced and outputted live daily programmes; covered breaking news on location across the UK, Europe, Nepal, the USA and South Africa; produced long-form radio and digital documentaries.

Senior Podcast Reporter / Producer – People Fixing the World at BBC

October 1, 2016 - April 1, 2017

Series producer and part of the launch team for BBC’s solutions-focused journalism strand; reported from Peru, Barcelona and China on climate and social innovation.

Reporter – BBC Radio 4 Today at BBC Today

August 1, 2016 - September 1, 2016

Duty reporter on breaking news and original investigations; delivered exclusives, including interviews with deported Byron workers and female MPs on online abuse.

Podcast Reporter / Producer – BBC Trending at BBC Trending

November 1, 2015 - October 1, 2016

Produced and reported for weekly radio and podcast output; wrote blogs, curated social media and covered digital trends; pitched and executive-produced BBC Three documentary The Woman Who Carried Out Her Own Abortion.

BBC World TV Producer – Outside Source / OS at Outside Source / OS

April 1, 2015 - November 1, 2015

Producer on digital-first TV news programmes; developed innovative story treatments using touchscreen presentation and audience interaction.

Senior Broadcast Journalist – World Have Your Say at World Have Your Say, BBC World Service

January 1, 2015 - March 1, 2015

Edited and produced radio and TV output in studio and on location; presented programmes on topics including the Israel–Palestine conflict, phone hacking and the death of Michael Brown.

Broadcast Journalist – World Have Your Say at World Have Your Say, BBC World Service

November 1, 2010 - December 1, 2014

Producer on a global discussion programme across radio, TV and digital; extensive on-location experience including MH17 disaster in Amsterdam, US elections, and the European migrant crisis; led large-scale audience debates and intimate outside broadcasts.