About Jasmin
Jasmin Bauomy is an award-winning documentary journalist and story editor specializing in work that spans the wide field, in which journalism meets artisanal storytelling, editorial leadership, team building, and helping organizations shape stories from concept to completion.
Most recently, until October 2024, she was Senior Producer and Story Editor at TRZ Media, where she pitched and executive produced HITZE – Letzte Generation Close-Up—a documentary series about Germany's controversial climate activism movement. The show won the German Climate Journalism Prize. She also co-created, edited, and hosted Little Devils, TRZ's first independent original show.
Jasmin builds community for audio creatives. She's particularly interested in creating spaces that allow for the exploration of different kinds of storytelling while being guided by peers in the field. To do that Jasmin founded THE ECCO, an international initiative running 6-9 month residencies (pan-European, pan-Arab) for people in the documentary field to experiment with format and explore non-commercial work. THE ECCO has grown into an international network of supporters and collaborators. In Berlin, she organizes regular gatherings for audio creatives.
Her previous roles include launching Al Jazeera English's first podcast The Debrief, producing award-winning work for The Take, leading creative audio at Blinkist, co-facilitating Spotify's SoundUp accelerator, and hosting & producing Creating Markets for the International Finance Corporation.
Jasmin is known for solving problems in all disciplines, finding the right format, building teams, and turning complex topics into compelling narratives.
For story editing, team leadership, project development, or creative workshops, get in touch.
Approach
Journalistic work requires balanced coverage, but bringing our own perspectives to the table is essential for the effort to unbias the news in its skewness towards Eurocentric, ableist, and patriarchal views.
Jasmin's multiethnic and multicultural upbringing, as an Arab-European or European Arab, has sensitized her to stories she might not have found otherwise. This shapes not only who she is, but also her work and the environments she chooses to work in.
Jasmin works in the area where journalism meets art, building nuance rather than paint with broad strokes. She trusts audiences can handle complexity and lets them draw their own conclusions without oversimplifying for accessibility.
Equal opportunity and equitable access matter to her in the stories she tells and the teams she works with. Having a seat at the table means nothing if your voice isn't heard. She applies this philosophy to every aspect of her work.
Skills
Podcast Production Story editing Photojournalism Video Production Project management Team Leadership Workshops Idea & Show Development Audio Reporting & Hosting Speaker Content Strategy Writing Adobe Premiere & Audition Photoshop Script editing Video & Audio Hosting English German Arabic Audio Consulting Multimedia Journalism Getting things done
Awards & Fellowships
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Signal Award 2025 / Silver for best Independent Limited Series /TRZ Media
Little Devils looks at the things we’re so quick to judge others and ourselves about. It explores the unseen. The flaws, struggles, mistakes and beliefs that haunt each one of us, a.k.a. our personalized little devils. This show was something I came up with independently but it was kindly supported and picked up for its first season by TRZ Media — the small studio I was working for at the time.
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German Climate Journalism Award 2024 /TRZ Media
Main prize for HITZE — Letzte Generation Close-Up. A reported podcast that intimately revealed the mundanity of the fight for the climate.
I initiated & executive produced the show. I also managed the production and led the
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New York Festivals Radio Award 2019/ Gold for Best News Podcast/ Jetty (Al Jazeera)
Gold for Al Jazeera’s news podcast The Take, special mention of an episode I produced on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
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Online Media Awards 2018/ High Commendations for Best Podcast / Al Jazeera
Podcast documentary-style episode of Al Jazeera’s The Debrief titled “Sleepless in Yemen” that explored the daily life of two Yemeni aid workers in Sanaa, which I produced and reported on.
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International Women's Media Foundation Fellowship in South Sudan 2018/ Al Jazeera
Recipient of fellowship that sent me to Juba, South Sudan to report on the mental health crisis, national identity & colorism as well as demining activities.