RTÉ MoJoCon is a leading international media conference focusing on mobile journalism, mobile content creation, mobile photography and new technology all in one event.
Here, we profile five speakers you don't want to miss at MoJoCon 2017.
View the full Mojocon programme here.
Samantha Barry
Appearing at: Is journalism dead? May 4
Samantha is the Executive Producer for Social and Emerging Media at CNN Worldwide. Barry leads the social teams at all of the CNN bureaus and works closely with the CNN Digital leadership in their editorial strategy. Her teams span publishing, news-gathering, digital and TV.
Under her leadership, CNN has become the most followed and fanned news organization in the world. She has led her team and the organization at large to do compelling work for social audiences on an array of platforms including Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, Line, Kik and other emerging media.
Born in Ireland, Barry has worked in over 25 countries, reporting and training other journalists in broadcasting, technology and social media. She joined CNN from BBC World News in London, where she served as a social media producer and journalist, and previously worked as reporter and producer for RTE and Newstalk in Ireland. She is a 2016 fellow of Columbia University School’s prestigious Sulzberger executive program and is a guest lecturer at Yale.
Erin Collins
Appearing at: What is the future of mobile content creation? May 4th
Erin Collins is one of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s two national reporters based in Calgary, part of a team tasked with telling uniquely Albertan stories to the country as a whole.Erin was born in Saskatchewan and grew up across Canada’s prairie provinces but has lived, worked and studied around the world from Canada’s high Arctic to the plains of Africa.Along the way, Erin completed a masters degree in international relations in Denmark and a graduate degree in journalism in Toronto.Erin is passionate about stories that touch on the environment, politics and business, making Alberta a great place to work as a journalist.Erin has won several regional, national and international awards for his reporting in Alberta since moving home in 2005.Since 2016 Erin has been working as the CBC’s first national mobile journalist (MoJo), filing from the field with just his iPhone.While working the bugs out of his own work flow, Erin helped build a "MoJo Basic Training" program, teaching other CBC reporters from Winnipeg to Yellowknife how to get their MoJo on.
Anne-Marie Tomchak
Appearing at: Women in Mojo. Why aren’t there more? May 5
Anne-Marie Tomchak is a presenter, filmmaker and award-winning Irish journalist based in London. She is currently the UK Editor of Mashable, a media and entertainment company at the forefront of tech, science and digital culture. Before joining Mashable, Anne-Marie was a reporter and presenter for the BBC, where she launched the social media investigative unit BBC Trending. In addition, Anne-Marie led the corporation’s mobile video offering on the BBC News app and hosted their Facebook Live broadcasts. Anne-Marie has a solid track record of producing original journalism and extensive experience reporting for national and international broadcasters including Deutsche Welle, American Public Media, NPR and RTE. She has also presented a number of TV documentaries including Cloud Control: Who Owns Your Data? on RTE One. She was recently listed in Silicon Republic’s Sci-Tech 100.
Sarah Hill
Appearing at: The Evolution of 360 video, M.R., A.R. and V.R. May 4th
National Edward R. Murrow, NAB Service to America and 12 time Mid-America Emmy award-winning Storyteller. Sarah Hill is the CEO & Chief Storyteller for StoryUP, a VR native media company that creates purpose led stories for brands and VR features for news outlets. Sarah is a former interactive news anchor for the NBC & CBS affiliates in mid-Missouri. Her team at KOMU-TV pioneered the use of multi-way video chat during a newscast. An alum of the Missouri School of Journalism and former adjunct faculty, Sarah’s reporting has taken her team around the globe covering VR stories about the human spirit in the Amazon, UAE, Congo and Zambia. Sarah is fascinated with what she calls "Human Media", or the evolution of communication to a three-dimensional world. Virtual and Augmented Realities are two mediums in which Sarah creates. StoryUP’s roots are in virtual travel for Veterans. In 2015, Sarah built a program called "Honor Everywhere", that uses Virtual Reality to allow aging World War II Veterans the opportunity to see their WWII memorial. She’s covered the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami in Sri Lanka and Indonesia and produced documentaries in Vietnam and Guatemala on the world’s mobility problem. Most recently, her team produced VR documentaries from the Amazon and eastern Congo about energy poverty.
Kristin Granbo
Appearing at: Snapchat Storytelling: Reaching the "Millennials", May 5
Kristin Granbo is a journalist working for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, NRK. Since 2008 she has been a multimedia reporter for their news website, and a television reporter for their main news programme, Dagsrevyen.
Kristin covered the UN climate change conferences in Copenhagen in 2009 and in Cancun in Mexico the following year. She has also been a royal correspondent covering three royal weddings, in Stockholm and in London. For the past three years she has been a VJ and producer for NRK’s children’s news programme Supernytt. After being given new tasks to report on different platforms and experiencing changes in the formats for news reporting she became curious to see what these changes did to the content of children’s news.
The wonderful @KGranbo making the case for the importance of news conversations with children in @NRKno cc @EBU_HQ pic.twitter.com/lljXoCrAzG
— Glen Mulcahy (@GlenBMulcahy) November 29, 2016
