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Maya Baylis

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Features TV & Digital Intern at CNN
📍 London, England, United Kingdom

Maya Baylis is a multimedia journalist at CNN, focusing on human-rights and climate justice stories. A graduate of McGill University and the University of the Arts London, she leverages her social work background and digital production skills to humanize complex global issues for younger audiences through video, photojournalism, and writing.

Passionate about innovative news dissemination, Maya explores shifting media consumption trends among Gen-Z. She is dedicated to solutions-based reporting, previously working with young refugee storytellers and producing a documentary about climate change impacts in Barbados. Her work aims to bring a human element to major headlines and current affairs.

Her short documentary, "The Frontline, Our Shores," filmed in Barbados as a student project, was selected to screen at an international film festival in Portugal.

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Experience
5 Years
Current Role
Features TV & Digital Intern
Location
London, England, United Kingdom
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Climate Justice
Her work consistently focuses on this topic, from a student documentary on climate change in Barbados to a CNN feature on green energy solutions in Malawi.
Human Rights Storytelling
Combines her social work background and journalism skills to report on human rights, including collaborative work with young refugee storytellers at Kakuma Refugee Camp.
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Career

Work history

3-2026
Features TV & Digital Intern
CNN
9-2025 - 9-2025
Panel Contributor
University of the Arts London
5-2025 - 8-2025
Editor
One World Media
9-2024
Editor and Features Writer
Artefact Magazine
9-2024 - 3-2026
Social Justice Journalism Masters Student
University of the Arts London
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Education
2024 - 2025
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University of the Arts London
9-2018 - 5-2022
Bachelor of Social Work
McGill University
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