Robin Sloan

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Vice President of Strategy
Current

Robin Sloan is the vice president for strategy at Current, a participatory media company co-founded by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt. Current produces news by collaborating with its audience; it runs a cable and satellite TV network, available in 56 million homes around the world, and a social news site, current.com. Before Current, Robin worked at the Poynter Institute, a journalism school and think tank in St. Petersburg, Florida. There, with Matt Thompson, he produced EPIC 2014 (robinsloan.com/epic), a viral video view of the future of media. Before Poynter, he graduated from Michigan State, where he majored in economics and minored in wasting time on the internet. Robin has spoken at journalism and technology conferences in the U.S. and Europe, and has been interviewed by The New York Times, NPR, PBS, IFC's Media Project, CNET, and many more.