Nancy Deville

About

Nancy DeVille is an award-winning multiplatform journalist and newsroom leader with two decades of experience creating top print, digital, audio, and broadcast content. She is experienced at collaborating cross-functionally to simplify workflows to help organizations better serve their audiences across platforms. As a project manager at The Atlantic, Nancy shepherds high-impact editorial projects like The Secret History of Family Separation, which earned the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. As part of the experimental storytelling team, she focuses on bridging the gap between digital and traditional media to engage new audiences. Nancy lives for a great storytelling experience and launched many of Youth Radio's (NPR's Youth Desk) interactive projects. In 2017, she managed a social first project recounting the Little Rock Nine's quest to desegregate Central High School. The project was named a finalist for the 2018 Online News Association's Best Feature award for small newsrooms.While at The Tennessean, she was a reporter on the breaking news team, which was recognized as a Pulitzer Prize finalist for its coverage of the most devastating flood in Nashville history. Her work has also earned first-place awards from the Tennessee Press Association for Best Education Reporting and Best News Reporting. Nancy is adept at breaking news, digital storytelling, newsroom project management, SEO strategy, and developing innovative ways to tell stories that resonate with national audiences. She is passionate about building newsrooms that reflect the diversity of the communities they cover. Nancy is experienced in recruiting, hiring, and mentoring young journalists. She has spent years helping newsrooms shape their coverage to reach communities of color and marginalized groups.