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  • Comment: Article initially read like a CV or LinkedIn profile - I have tried to edit it to conform with normal biography of a living person (BLP) style (chronological coverage of subject's life). However, it lacks inline citations for various assertions and there is little significant coverage (ie more than passing or routine mentions) from reliable, independent, secondary sources (some existing inline citations link to sources with no mentions of Moriba). Paul W (talk) 22:59, 1 April 2024 (UTC)


Geraldine Moriba
NationalityAmerican
EducationStanford University
Known forJournalism, Documentary Production, AI

Geraldine Moriba is an American journalist and documentary maker. She is the SVP and Chief Content Officer[1] of TheGrio, a digital video-centric news community platform.

Early life and education

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Moriba was born in Canada. She majored in political science as an undergraduate at Western University in Canada and is among the first two recipients of a Women’s Studies degree.[citation needed] In 2005, she was a Princeton University Ferris Professor of Journalism Fellow.[citation needed]

Moriba graduated from Stanford University’s John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship in 2019, focusing on using artificial intelligence in journalism.[citation needed]

Career

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Moriba started her career at As it Happens, CBC Radio.[citation needed] Working at NBC News and MSNBC, Moriba served as a Senior Producer with Standards and Practices, an executive producer of live broadcasts and news specials, and a documentary producer at Dateline where she created award-winning.[2] long-form stories.

At CNN, Moriba held several leadership roles from 2010 to 2017.[3] As the Executive Producer of the In America series, her team examined the rich complexity of the American identity with documentaries. As a Program Development Executive Producer, she produced and tested pilots for original series for use on CNN’s cable networks and digital properties.[citation needed] As CNN’s VP of Diversity and Inclusion, she created initiatives to increase newsroom diversity and foster broader editorial coverage.[4]

From 2018 to 2020, Moriba was a Stanford University John S. Knight Journalism Fellow[5] and a Stanford University Brown Institute research scientist. Her research focused on ways to use machine learning to identify editorial patterns.[6] She pioneered the Stanford Cable TV News Analyzer,[7] an AI-powered tool that enhances transparency around daily editorial choices.[8] Her research explored using artificial intelligence to identify patterns of news polarization and improve editorial decisions.[9]

Through her production company, Moriba Media, she was the Executive Producer of the four-part 2018 PBS documentary Sinking Cities,[10] about rising seas in New York, Tokyo, London, and Miami.[10] She was also the executive producer for several WNET initiatives including Chasing the Dream, about poverty and economic opportunity,[11] among others.[12]

Moriba was the executive producer and co-host[13] of the 2020 documentary podcast series Sounds Like Hate, funded by the Southern Poverty Law Center, that "tells the stories of people and communities grappling with hate and searching for solutions".[14]

Moriba is the co-director of Coloring Outside the Lines,[15] a 2023 Leukemia and Lymphoma Society documentary that "follows four patients with acute myeloid leukemia, their medical teams, and the scientists developing a clinical trial that wants nothing less than to completely transform how this deadliest form of blood cancer is treated."[15]

Moriba is currently is the SVP and Chief Content Officer[1] of TheGrio, a digital video-centric news community platform geared towards African Americans.[16] Since joining the organization in June 2021, she has expanded theGrio to include five distinct revenue and content businesses: a news site, a streaming and mobile app, live events, a podcast network, and a cable network.[16]

She has also volunteered on various boards, including the American Press Institute.[17]

Awards

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Moriba’s work has earned her five Emmy Awards, an Alfred I. DuPont Award,[18] for Class Photo (1995), Dateline NBC, a documentary about the fate of 21 of 25 Afro-American youths from Bedford-Stuyvesant twelve years after their fourth-grade class picture[19]

Moriba has won two Peabody Awards.[20]

Personal life

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Moriba has lived in four countries: Canada, Jamaica, England and the United States.

She is a sarcoma cancer survivor who has used her survivorship to support victims of rare cancers.[21] Moriba is the second of four children and the mother of two.

References

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  1. ^ a b Johnson, Ted (June 2, 2021). "Allen Media Group Taps Geraldine Moriba As The Grio Senior VP Of News And Entertainment". deadline.com.
  2. ^ "A Question of Fairness". The Peabody Awards. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  3. ^ Ho, Rodney (Dec 15, 2016). "CNN's VP of diversity and inclusion Geraldine Moriba is leaving". ajc.com.
  4. ^ "Fact Check | CNN Politics". CNN. Retrieved 2024-01-10.
  5. ^ "Alumni". John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  6. ^ "Stanford Cable TV News Analyzer - About Us". Stanford Cable TV News Analyzer. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  7. ^ Moriba, Geraldine (2020-08-19). "Visualizing the Who and What of Cable TV News". tvnewsanalyzer. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  8. ^ Stanford News Service (August 27, 2020). "Stanford launches AI-powered TV news analyzer". Standford News Service.
  9. ^ Moriba, Geraldine (2019-03-15). "Identifying bias in cable news". JSK Class of 2019. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  10. ^ a b "Watch Sinking Cities | Prime Video". www.amazon.com. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  11. ^ damianos. "American Problems, Trans Solutions | Series | Chasing the Dream | PBS". Chasing the Dream. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  12. ^ "About Reginald F. Lewis and the Making of a Billion Dollar Empire". www.wliw.com. February 8, 2022. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  13. ^ "Sounds Like Hate: Meet the women behind the podcast investigating the proliferation of hate and extremism in modern America". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  14. ^ "About this Series - Sounds Like Hate". soundslikehate.org. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  15. ^ a b "Beat AML® Master Clinical Trial Chronicles - Coloring Outside the Lines | Leukemia and Lymphoma Society". lls.org. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  16. ^ a b "theGrio - About". theGrio. 2 June 2009. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  17. ^ Kapintcheva, Elena. "Meet Our Team". American Press Institute. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  18. ^ "Index". duPont-Columbia Awards. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  19. ^ Goodman, Walter (24 July 1995). "TELEVISION REVIEW; Those Lucky Few Youngsters Who Escape Tragic Streets". The New York Times.
  20. ^ "A Question of Fairness". The Peabody Awards. Retrieved 2024-01-09.
  21. ^ "My cancer is worse than your cancer?". cnn.com. September 13, 2014.