Joseph Conroy Email & Phone Number

Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• Coordinating between executives, producers, show teams, marketing, communications, developers and other stakeholders to maximise the reach & impact of RTÉ content.
• Working across all output from entertainment to major dramas, international boxsets, current affairs, lifestyle, kids content & everything in between.
• Special focus on managing the digital presentation of major live sporting events including the FIFA World Cup, UEFA Champions League, Republic of Ireland MNT and WNT football, Six Nations, Champions Cup, URC & live GAA.
• Designed, implemented, and currently manage The Late Late Show's new YouTube strategy. This has brought the show in line with best practices on the platform and delivered exponential growth.
• Late Late Toy Show Team Lead and responsible for the show's YouTube videos.
• Creating a new YouTube strategy for RTÉ Player, collaborating with the RTÉ Lab when commissioning new content.

Dublin, Ireland

• Producing Off The Ball shows live across YouTube, digital radio, television, podcast and other social platforms.
• Managing the digital distribution of those shows.
• Generating ideas for new shows, segments and podcasts.
• Booking guests.
• Consistently bringing new ideas to the table and reacting to changes in technology and user behaviour to produce the best possible product for our listeners and viewers.
• Managing shows across our app, website, YouTube, and other social platforms to get our content to the widest possible audience.

Dublin

• During my time with Newstalk, I restructured the station’s online business and tech section - with a focus on covering stories in an engaging and approachable manner.
• I have worked with on-air teams to streamline the station’s reporting process - while creating new weekly and daily digital features.
• Contributing on air.
• This role also involved writing about politics, technology, and business stories which crossover with sports and entertainment.
• I also developed an online video content plan for the site, this resulted in the production of Newstalk’s first two video mini-documentaries, I'll Smile When I'm Rich: Inside Irish MMA and Becoming Santa.
• For these projects I researched original ideas - and shot part of each documentary, conducted all interviews, and storyboarded and produced the final videos.

Dublin

• I contributed features to various publications including The Irish Independent, Hot Press, Broadsheet and The Irish Examiner.
• Focus on multimedia (text and video) features, covering stories in a creative, cost-effective manner.
• This covered a broad range of topics ranging from professional wrestling in Dublin, to the Republic of Ireland's only Orange Order March.
• Exploiting latest technologies to deliver high quality, high definition video content.

Dublin

• I wrote album reviews, previews, live reviews, feature pieces and interviews for Hot Press.
• I also covered film, theatre, TV, sport and restaurants for the magazine.
• Writing daily news stories for HotPress.com.
• This involved working on tight deadlines.
• Experience with live music photography.

Dublin

• Worked with a team of writers covering music, film, TV, theatre and pop-culture.
• Contributed reviews, previews and features, including an interview with Hozier, and feature pieces on record shops in Dublin, the demise of Phantom FM and arts funding in Ireland.
• I planned content schedules for each fortnightly issue of the paper.
• Sub-edited stories and worked with the design team on layout for the print edition of the paper and posted articles on its website.

Brooklyn, New York

• I curated video playlists for Cull.Tv, a music start-up. The site was an online music video discovery platform which mixed trending content and music selected by staff to offer visitors a snapshot of what was happening.
• I was also involved in developing the brand and getting record labels and promoters involved with the site.
• I worked with Cull until the site was acquired by the social video network TwitVid in the summer of 2012.

Dublin

• My primary responsibility was sourcing, managing and publishing content for Ireland's leading electronic music website, www.bodytonicmusic.com
• During my time with Bodytonic weekly hits on the site increased from 18,000 to 44,000.
• I posted daily news stories and sourced original content from artists and labels.
• I also secured exclusive podcasts from a diverse mix of artists.
• I worked closely with Bodytonic's live music promoters and helped them bring new artists to perform live in Dublin at the company's various venues.

Diploma, Project Management, Distinction

Professional Academy Diploma in Project Management, specialising in agile project management, focusing on team structure and digital.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Journalism, Second Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Culture Editor, The Edition ● Focused on video journalism. ● Completed a dissertation titled "Documentaries.

Bachelor'S Degree, Arts International: Joint Major English And Economics, Second Class Honours, Gpa 3.6

Activities and Societies: English Literature Society, Belfield FM, The College Tribune, University Observer, Drama Soc, Debating ● English.

Bachelor'S Degree, International Humanities Exchange Program, Second Class Honours, Gpa 3.64

Activities and Societies: Writers Block, Erasmus As part of my BA in UCD I completed a one year Erasmus studying in Universiteit van.

Education record