Stephen Quinn is a journalist, writer and film-maker with a parallel career as a university academic. He makes films and teaches people how to make movies and documentaries with a smartphone and a range of artificial intelligence tools. Dr Quinn has lived in nine countries. (Page updated 14 October 2025.)

Since late 2023 Dr Quinn has run face-to-face workshops about AI tools for film-making in England, the UAE and Australia, and via Zoom in England, India and Africa. You can read about his approach to making films with AI tools here. He has taught people to make videos with a smartphone in 20 countries.

Dr Quinn writes screenplays for feature films and shorts. He won first prize in a dark comedy screenwriting festival in 2019 for his first feature script. As of October 2025 he has made 23 short films that he wrote, directed, filmed and edited. Some of the comedies are even funny. He has published 31 books. Details about his books and movies can be found here.

Dr Quinn runs MOJO Media Insights, a digital consulting company based in Brighton in the UK and Melbourne in Australia. He was a freelance wine writer for a decade until lockdown in 2020. He still makes videos about wine.

In 2023 Dr Quinn retired as part-time professor of mobile journalism at Kristiania University in Norway, where he had worked since February 2014. Now he makes films and travels the world teaching AI film-making and how to make videos with a smartphone.

From 2011-13 Dr Quinn was digital development editor at the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Prior to his return to journalism, Dr Quinn taught multi-media journalism at universities in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and China between 1996 and 2011.

Before becoming an academic Quinn worked across all media platforms in four countries. He has been a journalist with regional newspapers in Australia; the Bangkok Post in Thailand; the Press Association, BBC-TV, Independent Television News and The Guardian in London; the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in Sydney; the Middle East Broadcasting Center in Dubai (while teaching in the UAE); and Television New Zealand.

MOJO: The Mobile Journalism Handbook (Boston: Focal Press 2015), co-written with Dr Ivo Burum, is one of the world’s most adopted books about mojo. Find it at Amazon here. Book Authority selected this book for its list of the 100 most-influential journalism books.

More about Dr Quinn’s books can be found at his Amazon author page.

Wine writing: Until the Covid lockdown Dr Quinn contributed to a range of print and online wine magazines and web sites. He published a weekly wine column for almost a decade (archives can be found here). Print magazines included Meininger’s Wine Business International (Germany), Lieu Dit (UK), the drinks business (UK), Epicure (Singapore) and Sommelier India. Examples of magazine articles can be found on this site as pdf files or links.

Dr Quinn is currently serving his second five-year term as a director on the board of the International Federation of Wine Journalists (FIJEV). He is also Fijev’s representative for the UK and Australia, and administers Fijev’s YouTube channel. Dr Quinn has made videos (with only an iPhone) for DecanterChina.com. Details are available here. Examples of his videos, all made with only an iPhone, can be found at his YouTube channel and his Vimeo professional site.

Until 2018 Dr Quinn’s wine column appeared in five English-language daily newspapers in Asia: The Sunday edition of The Statesman, India’s oldest English-language national daily, China Post in Taiwan, The Jakarta Globe in Indonesia, China Daily (March 2010 to March 2012) and MyPaper in Singapore (2014-2018) plus the WineTimes Facebook site in Hong Kong.

Contact
The best way to contact Stephen Quinn is via email: sraquinn (at) gmail (dot) com. He deleted his X/Twitter account in August 2024. You can also find Stephen Quinn on Facebook and Linkedin.