Conall Jones

Executive Producer

All the Empty Rooms

Conall Jones is an Oscar-nominated producer whose work spans feature documentaries, short films, series, and investigative video journalism. His films have screened at major festivals such as Telluride, Toronto, Tribeca, and the Berlinale, and his work has appeared on platforms including Netflix, Vice, CNN, A&E, and The New Yorker. Conall spent three years as a staff video journalist in The Wall Street Journal newsroom. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2023 for producing the short documentary Stranger at the Gate, executive produced by Malala Yousafzai.

Participating Sessions

Piercing the Numbness: Getting Beyond the Intolerable Everyday

The writer Isaac Bashevis Singer once wrote that the greatest curse of the human spirit is its ability to get used to anything. As the public becomes desensitized to stories of violence, trauma, and injustice, investigative storytellers face the challenge of breaking through the static. How can investigative storytellers bring a fresh eye to urgent, trauma-filled stories that the public often struggles to look at directly? This panel will explore...

All the Empty Rooms

All the Empty Rooms follows veteran CBS News correspondent Steve Hartman and photographer Lou Bopp as they embark on a seven-year-long project to document the empty bedrooms of children killed in school shootings. Hartman steps away from his heartwarming human interest stories and unbeknownst to his network’s bosses, pursues a piece on absence, memory, and the unseen ripples of America’s gun violence epidemic. As these senseless incidents claim more young...