An multi-award winning digital artist and journalist, Panetta has lead immersive innovation at the Guardian for the last 10 years. She currently runs the Guardian’s in-house virtual reality production studio, dedicated to creating groundbreaking content. The studio’s first VR project – a virtual experience of solitary confinement – won attention around the world as an exemplary case of story and form. Before that she made interactive documentaries, augmented reality sound apps and led the Guardian’s podcast team. She also works as a sound artist and is currently a Nieman fellow at Harvard University.

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