About Us
Mia Freedman, Publisher and Editorial Director of the Mamamia Women’s Network, best describes her need for Debrief Daily:
“Now that I’m settling into my forties, I can feel the gears have noticeably shifted. I’m looking back far less and looking forward more often. I have fewer regrets, less angst and far less need for approval from people I don’t know.
Interestingly, I feel like I know a lot less now than I did in my 20s and 30s when things seemed very black and white. I’m now embracing the shades of grey and relishing the chance to change my opinions about things and people after learning more about them.
I feel like I have less to prove and more to learn. I apologise less. I ask for help more.”
Quite simply, at its heart, Debrief Daily is a place for women to rediscover stories they can relate to and find their tribe. It’s all about fresh, engaging and authentic content for women 40 plus and is a very welcome addition to the Mamamia Women’s Network.
MIA FREEDMAN MWN Content Director
Mia Freedman is the co-founder and Content Director of the Mamamia Women’s Network, Australia’s largest women’s digital media company, reaching 4 million women per month. She is an author of three books, TV and radio commentator, podcast host, mother of three and writer for MWN websites Mamamia, The Glow, iVillage and Debrief Daily. She is the former Chair of the National Body Image Advisory Group and in 2014 she was named by the Australian Financial Review as one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women.
JAMILA RIZVI Editor-in-Chief
Jamila Rizvi is 29-years-old and the Editor in Chief of the Mamamia Women’s Network websites, including Mamamia, The Glow, iVillage Australia and Debrief Daily. She is an utterly shameless political junkie and was named in Westpac’s 100 Most Influential Women of 2015 and is one of Cosmopolitan’s Most Successful Women Under 30. Jamila is an ambassador for Welcome to Australia and CARE Australia’s Educate a Girl campaign.
ANNIE MARKEY Editor
Annie Markey is the Editor of Debrief Daily. She has more than 25 years experience at some of Australia’s media leading companies, including News Corp, SBS and Fox Studios, and has worked across both digital and print.
SARAH MACDONALD Senior Editor / “Just Between Us” Podcast Host
Sarah is a journalist, writer and broadcaster who loves to hear and tell stories about women. She wrote the book ‘Holy Cow’ and as she approaches fifty hopes to become one. Her twitter is
DINA KLUSKA Features Editor
Dina Kluska is Senior Features Editor at the Mamamia Women’s Network, working predominantly across Mamamia and Debrief Daily. Dina has spent the past 13 years working in book publishing across a range of non fiction books including current affairs, politics, memoir, biographies, sport and art and design. She’s worked with cricketers, celebrity chefs, former prime ministers, cops, nobel prize winners, academics, TV personalities and self help gurus. She still doesn’t understand anything about the game of cricket and can categorically say that she will never enter politics.
BERN MORLEY Senior Editor
Bern Morley is a Gen X child of the ’80s who never quite left scrunchies and big hair behind. She is kept busy as a working mother of three and consumes far too much coffee in the space of 24 hours. After a stint as Mamamia’s Parenting Editor, Bern is now a Senior Editor for Debrief Daily.
ELISSA RATLIFF Writer
Elissa Ratliff is a Writer at Debrief Daily and the assistant to the Publisher. Although she is the youngest member of the Debrief Daily team – she can decipher her Mick Jagger’s from her Keith Richards’ and knows 80’s trivia like the back of her hand. Follow her on twitter
LAURA HAMPSON Site Producer
Laura Hampson is the Site Producer of Debrief Daily and the assistant to the Editor-in-Chief. She is filled with wanderlust and will one day settle in a cottage next to a lavender field in Provence where she dreams of writing a best-selling novel. You can follow her on Twitter
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