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Good News, Monaco’s final scoop

When I started Good News, Monaco in October 2020, we were in the midst of the Covid pandemic. We had come out of one lockdown and were about the enter another.

The idea to become part of the Good News movement came to me thanks to Annette Anderson. I had published an article for Forbes Monaco with the headline “Prince Charles gives Prince Albert Covid” (or a variation of that), which was loosely based on the fact that HSH had been in a meeting with HRH, who shortly after tested positive for the virus. 

Annette called me out on the clickbait. And I realised that as a journalist I was playing into the media’s collective fearmongering, delivering alarming statistics instead of the human story behind them. I decided to create a non-commercial site that would promote community in Monaco and buying locally to create positive social media.

The idea was simple. The headline would either be a person’s name, or the business name. Nothing salacious or misleading, instead creating a genuine connection with a photo and story.

Rather ironic then that the Good News Monaco site launched on October, 2020, with “Body discovered in Larvotto.” But I swear that was a one off.

Over the past six years, it has been an absolute joy to share stories about Monaco’s budding community – Humans of Monaco, I ❤︎ Monaco, Good News Women and News, stories that go beyond translated government press releases.

I still believe in supporting women. I still believe in community. I still believe in buying local. But the time has come for Good News, Monaco to end, as I now turn my focus to developing Monaco Info in English.

It seemed appropriate to end my volunteer passion project with 30 Days of Good Deeds, Troy Armour’s initiative to spread kindness around the world.

It’s been quite the ride over the last six years, and your support has been invaluable. I invite you to follow me at @nancy.heslin and NancyHeslin.com for more Monaco stories you won’t find elsewhere.

Article first published on June 7, 2026.

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About Nancy Heslin

NANCY HESLIN is a Monaco media personality who swapped the chilly temps of Canada for year-round sunshine on the Côte d’Azur back in 2001.

She is an accomplished journalist, podcaster and cofounder of Monaco’s English-language book publishing house, Carob Tree Publishing.

Launched in March 2024, Carob Tree Publishing is the first 100% women owned and operated maison d’édition in Monaco. Cofounded with film producer Lacey Da Costa, the company is a Monaco-registered SARL that champions women authors and women-focused projects and is committed to printing and promoting services in Monaco.

Carob Tree’s first release, 100 Years of Women: Motorsport in Monaco, came out on January 24, 2025. The “groundbreaking book” is not-for-profit and the book launch was attended by Prince Albert and hailed as “an influential event” by FIA.

The media personality hosts the new Monaco Info podcast in English series, with guests such as creator of Paw Patrol and Bob the Builder Keith Chapman, Olympian Paula Radcliffe, easyJet founder Sir Stelios and model Victoria Silvstedt.

The podcaster is the cohost of Nancy & PJ Finally Get Together, a popular podcast launched on January 23, 2023, with listeners in 139 countries, total downloads have reached 81,000 to date (source: Buzzsprout). The podcast is a spinoff of You, Me & France, a 75,000-word lived experience non-fiction manuscript.

While Nancy started her not-for-profit project Good News, Monaco in November 2020 to share positive human interest stories that support the community and local businesses in a time of Covid, her mission to deliver good news continues today.

Nancy is the Editor in Chief of The Monegasque, the English-language arts and culture magazine launched in December 2023. Prior to this she was Editor in Chief of the bimonthly Forbes Monaco, from its launch in November 2018 until January 2023, when it ceased publishing due to licensing terms.

Nancy hosts the Savills Monaco sponsored What’s New in Monaco for Riviera Radio, the English-language FM radio station in Monaco that broadcasts across the South of France.

Additionally she is a pitch coach at Monaco Tech and a gifted moderator working with the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation (Ocean Week, Blue Economy Index, Re. Ocean Fund, Re.Generation Leadership Program, including names like Paul Polman, Alejandro Agag and Alain Ducasse) and various banks (UBS, BNP, Barclays Monaco). She also led the 1st Forbes Monaco Power Women’s Summit with Cherie Blair, Shevon Harris-Holyfield and Chinwe Esimai.

Her reputation in Monaco and the South of France has had an international dimension for many years. She was interviewed by ARTE and Channel 5 for documentaries on the Principality. During the aftermath of the Nice Bastille Day attack on July 14, 2016, she appeared on international media: BBC World Service (UK), BBC Northern Ireland, CBC (Canada), CTV News (Canada), Global News (Canada), Morning Report (New Zealand).

As of Dec 2024, Nancy is the president of the Swimrun Monaco. The swimrunner (follow her on Insta: swimrunnerinmonaco) is the former editor of ÖTILLÖ Swimrun Life.

She began rowing in 2020 at the Société Nautique de Monaco and sat on the Board from 2023-2024. She won for Monaco at the 2022 French Coastal Rowing Championships (Women’s Masters x4 6000m).

Prior to Monaco, for 15 years, Nancy was Editor in Chief of the English-language publication the Riviera Reporter. She has penned for various airline magazines (easyJet Traveller, Norwegian Airlines N Magazine, Iberia Ronda and Wizz) and for 16 years wrote for Fodor’s Travel Guides (France, Provence & The Côte d’Azur and Paris editions). She has contributed to Women’s Running Magazine in the US.

Nancy (Wilson) also reported as a stringer for People Magazine for several years, covering events from the Cannes Film Festival and the Monaco Grand Prix, while on other occasions she’s taken the TGV with Tom Cruise to Marseille and sipped champagne with Paris Hilton in St Tropez.

From 2013-2016 Nancy taught “Debates and Interviews” in English at the French École du Journalisme in Nice, where she gave a Master’s course on the History of International Media.

Nancy became a naturalised French citizen in 2010 to obtain the right to vote.

Contact: GoodNewsMonaco

Photo: Ed Wright Images.