Web Summit: ‘Being right more important than being first’, says Samantha Barry

Having the gift of the gab is far from the only reason Cork native Samantha Barry was chosen to lead CNN’s social media department but when you’re in the driving seat at one of the world’s largest news outlets it’s a local quality that probably can’t hurt either.

Based in New York, the Ballincollig-born journalist whose family now call Bantry home is far from her roots but that ability to tell a yarn, though in in a very different way, is as important as ever.

More than a decade working as a broadcast journalist brought Ms Barry from a master’s degree at Dublin City University all the way to the Big Apple in her current role at CNN, via more than 25 countries.