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Maria Pacheco is CEO of Storyful, a global leader in the provision of verified digital content to newsrooms and of digital media intelligence to corporations. 


Prior to joining Storyful, Maria served as deputy head of News Corp’s corporate strategy team, spearheading global initiatives such as partnerships with Big Digital, and partnerships across News Corp companies. 


Before her tenure at News Corp, Maria led international business development at Portland Communications, an Omnicom agency, where she also provided strategic guidance to clients on audience engagement, messaging, organizational design and digital campaign execution from New York and London. She has also worked in competitive planning and strategic partnerships at Comcast and ViacomCBS, and started her career at Univision in Miami. 


Maria holds a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Featured Story Collections

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What the Scissors Taught Alana

Today, we're constantly being criticized for how we look, what we wear, and how we act, and we're forced to change ourselves to avoid criticism. Alana faces the same problem. She loves her long, jet black hair. But as her hair gets increasingly longer, people are starting to talk about her, and especially her hair. Feeling pressured, she decides to cut her hair short. She feels bold, but something doesn't feel right…