Draft:Geraldine Moriba

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

Early life and education
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. In 2005, she was a Princeton University Ferris Professor of Journalism Fellow.

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

Career
Moriba started her career at As it Happens, CBC Radio. 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. long-form stories.

At CNN, Moriba held several leadership roles from 2010 to 2017. 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. As CNN’s VP of Diversity and Inclusion, she created initiatives to increase newsroom diversity and foster broader editorial coverage.

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

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

Moriba was the executive producer and co-host 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".

Moriba is the co-director of Coloring Outside the Lines, 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."

Moriba is currently is the SVP and Chief Content Officer of TheGrio, a digital video-centric news community platform geared towards African Americans. 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.

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

Awards
Moriba’s work has earned her five Emmy Awards, an Alfred I. DuPont Award, 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

Moriba has won two Peabody Awards.

Personal life
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. Moriba is the second of four children and the mother of two.