About Áine Kerr
Áine is a teacher-turned-journalist, editor, lecturer, platform executive, executive coach, broadcaster, public speaker and media entrepreneur.
Co-Founder and COO of Kinzen
Áine Kerr is Co-Founder and COO of Kinzen; a technology company building products to help connect people with quality news and information. Previously, Áine led global journalism partnerships at Facebook, overseeing a team in New York focused on building products for journalists and improving news literacy for news consumers. She was instrumental in helping to create and execute on the Facebook Journalism Project and led the creation of the News Integrity Initiative (NII).
Before Facebook, Áine spent five years at Storyful, where she served as Head of Content and Political Editor before being appointed Managing Editor in December 2013 at the time of the company’s acquisition by News Corporation. Previously, Áine spent over seven years working as a Political Correspondent and News Reporter with The Irish Times, The Irish Independent and The Irish Examiner.
Áine is on the advisory board of the NII, an advisor to the Institute for Future of Media and Journalism (Fujo), as well as being the co-founder of Online News Association (ONA) Ireland. She recently graduated as a Fellow of the Sulzberger Leadership Program in Columbia University and has a Bachelor of Education (B’ED) and a Masters of Journalism (MAJ) with Dublin City University [DCU]. She has certificates with Cornell University and Harvard University in financial accounting and project management, and an Advanced Diploma in Leadership and Executive Coaching with Kingstown College.
Áine Kerr hosts RTÉ’s Reignite on RTÉ Radio One. You can listen back to the show here.
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Áine Kerr was awarded Woman of the Year in Media 2018 by Irish Tatler Magazine at their annual awards ceremony, and was shortlisted for Entrepreneur of the Year in 2019 by Women Mean Business. She was a recipient of a DCU Alumni Award in July 2020 in recognition of her achievements.
Áine has spoken at major conferences and events world over, lectured in journalism with Dublin Business School and served as a member of the Visiting Faculty at Poynter Leadership Academy for Women in Florida.
She participated in the 2019 Going for Growth programme sponsored by Enterprise Ireland and KPMG. Áine is also a member of the European Council’s committee of experts on quality journalism in the digital age and a member of the Global Future Council on Media, Entertainment and Culture for 2019-2020 term which serves as a brain trust for the World Economic Forum (WEF).