Paul Quigley is co-founder and CEO of NewsWhip, a platform that monitors news engagement and predicts which stories will win audience attention. NewsWhip is used by journalists and communicators around the world to spot breaking news, unpack crises and issues, and better understand which stories engage people. Paul is deeply interested in story virality, political identity, and misinformation. In 2016, he shared victory in the EY Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Before founding NewsWhip...
Liz Carolan is the Executive Director of Digital Action, which works to counter digital threats to democracy. In 2018 she set up and ran the Transparent Referendum Initiative, a project to enable scrutiny of online activity during the Irish referendum on the 8th Amendment. She has spent the last 10 years working on governance, transparency and data issues, at the Institute for Government, the Africa Governance Initiative and Open Data Institute....
Donie O’Sullivan is a CNN reporter covering the intersection of technology and politics. He is part of the CNN Business team and works closely with CNN’s investigative unit tracking and identifying online disinformation campaigns targeting the American electorate. He also covers how social media platforms, Congress, and the American intelligence community are responding to the threat of disinformation and troll campaigns. O’Sullivan was part of a team that uncovered several major Russian ...
Mark Little, media entrepreneur and technology leader. Mark is an innovator in the field of online trust and safety. He co-founded Kinzen, which used artificial intelligence and human expertise to detect dangerous misinformation and hate speech. Kinzen was acquired by Spotify in 2022. He also founded Storyful, which pioneered the verification of online content for news publishers and tech platforms, and was acquired by NewsCorp in 2013. Mark was also a senior executive at Twitter, where he was ...
Stephen is the Publisher at AML Intelligence, a business content site dedicated to quality reporting, analysis and data on money laundering and anti-terrorist financing. He is former Group Editor-in-Chief at INM, Ireland’s largest media group, where he ran the newspaper and online operations. A member of the Supervisory Board of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), he has also served on the board of the World Editors Forum....
Susan Daly is Editor of TheJournal.ie, Ireland’s first national-focused digital-only seven-day news publication. Since its inception in 2010, Journal Media has expanded its publications into the business sector (Fora.ie), entertainment (DailyEdge.ie) and sport (The42.ie). Daly leads a newsroom of over 20 journalists, spearheads content strategy and innovations in storytelling, focusing also on the overall company goal of creating a sustainable business model around online news consumption. ...
Clare Duignan is a Non-Executive Director at Irish Times Ltd. and an Independent Board Director for The Digital Hub Development Agency, an incubation space for digital content and technology enterprises, located on a state-of-the-art campus in the heart of Dublin City. Claire is former managing director of RTÉ Radio, holding the role from 2009 until 2013. During her time at RTE, Clare led the development of RTÉ Television’s independent production unit and served as director of programmes i...
Áine Kerr is co-founder and COO of Kinzen, a new Irish start-up developing solutions for people who want conscious control of their news experience. She was recently awarded Woman of the Year in Media 2018 by Irish Tatler Magazine at their annual awards ceremony. Previously, Áine led global journalism partnerships at (Facebook) Meta, overseeing a team in New York focused on building products, tools and services for journalists and also working to improve news literacy for news consumers. Sh...
Working in journalism for over twenty years, Karlin is a technology journalist with the Irish Times. She has a particular interest in how technology intersects with society, culture, the arts, politics, the sciences, as reflected in her weekly column. She has been a contributor to a wide range of Irish and international publications, including The Guardian, New Scientist, Wired.com, Salon.com, Red Herring, The Scientist and The Sunday Times. She holds a PhD from Trinity College. From Feb 2009 ...
As an independent board director for FuJo. Padraig McKeon comes from ten years serving as managing director of PR and communications consulting company Drury Communications. Padraig is currently interim director of alumni relations at Dublin City University where he works to develop, resource and implement a new approach to alumni relations at the university. Padraig is also a reputation and business management consultant currently working with the PRII Education Review Group to review the qual...
Kevin O’Sullivan is the Environment, Agriculture and Science editor for The Irish Times. Kevin was Editor of The Irish Times and the Director of The Irish Times Limited from 2011 to 2017. Kevin has a Bachelor of Science degree from University College Dublin and a diploma in Journalism from Dublin City University. Prior to joining The Irish Times in 1997 he worked at the Connacht Tribune and the Tuam Herald. He was news editor at the The Irish Times from 2006 to 2011 and previously held the ...
Marina Meseguer Torres is a journalist specialising in digital information and international relations. She is currently project officer at Learn to Check, where she develops projects and training for media literacy and combating disinformation. She has worked for more than 14 years as an editor at the spanish newspaper La Vanguardia. During this period she has been a special correspondent in countries such as Iran, Iraq, Ukraine, Russia, Mozambique or Estonia and has interviewed public figures ...