Media and Communication Officer - Meloney McVeigh

Meloney McVeigh joined CJINI in April 2006 as Media and Communications Officer where she has responsibility for both internal and external communications.

Prior to joining CJINI, Meloney spent three and a half years as a Press Officer within the PSNI Department of Media and Public Relations in Belfast.

Meloney’s professional background is in Journalism. She studied for a BA in Journalism Studies at Napier University, Edinburgh, and after graduating in 1997, joined a weekly newspaper in South Down as a reporter – a post she held for five years.

Her position at CJINI means she is responsible for handling and co-ordinating media enquiries on all aspects of the CJI’s work and publicising, in partnership with other interested parties, the findings of all Inspections carried out by Criminal Justice Inspection.

Meloney is also editor of The Spec, the quarterly newsletter of Criminal Justice Inspection.