Experience
Newsrooms and the Studio
Director, Montlior Branded Content Studio, 2019–present; Features Editor, Coravian Courier, 2014–2019; Deputy Features Editor, 2011–2014; staff writer and commissioning editor, 2007–2011.
Director, Studio
Adaeze Okonjo.
Leads the writers, designers, photographers and data specialists of the Montlior Branded Content Studio.
Biography
Editorial craft, applied on the advertiser’s side of the wall.
Adaeze directs every commissioned editorial project made by the Studio. She is responsible for the proposition, team, standards review and the clear labelling that distinguishes the work from Montlior News.
She spent twelve years in magazine and newspaper features, most recently as features editor of the Coravian Courier. Her reporting covered cities, work and the institutions that shape public life, and won the Valcourt Press Award for explanatory journalism in 2016.
Adaeze joined Montlior Media in 2019 to rebuild the Studio around subject expertise. She introduced independent source budgets, a published correction policy and a commissioning process that separates factual review from approval.
- Editorial strategy
- Long-form reporting
- Data stories
- Print publications
Selected work
Reported and transparent
She directed The Ledger Papers for Halvard & Crane, Northgate Energy’s public grid analysis and Verlain Frères’ bicentenary supplement.
Standards
What clients can review
Adaeze defines factual-review boundaries before commissioning. Partners may correct facts about themselves and identify legal risk; they cannot select sources, suppress findings or remove substantiated criticism.