In October 2017, social video news provider NowThis launched @newsroom, a Twitter account intended to combine the best of the company’s real-world and social reporting. The launch coincided with a m...
Andy Carvin
Andy Carvin is senior editor-at-large at NowThis News, focusing on original, social reporting and breaking news.
He was previously the head of Reported.ly, the global reporting team at First Look Media. and prior to that senior social media strategist at National Public Radio and a fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the Columbia University Journalism School in New York. He first came to wider prominence by covering the Tunisian revolution on Twitter in late 2010. He developed a large following on Twitter which came to rely on his tweets and retweets of news and information regarding the uprisings across the Middle East. His curation of Twitter feeds, as well as his expertise in the verification of news coming through social media, have made him a major figure in journalism worldwide.
He was a recipient in July 2011 of the Journalism Awards: Special Distinction Award, Knight-Batten Award for Innovation for his Twitter reporting. He subsequently donated the iPhone he used to tweet during the Arab Spring to the American History Museum.
He is the author of Distant Witness (2013).
Experimentation and risk-taking and getting-it-wrong are vital to innovation, whether with new products/services or with the management of people, newsrooms, new forms of storytelling and change its...
Covering violence and trauma can be a psychologically hazardous enterprise. Journalists working on traumatic assignments often fear that, sooner or later, the work will leave its scars. But few have...
The responsibility of reporting graphic imagery: ideas for protecting yourself and your audience
Sourcing and verifying eyewitness media from the social web is now a standard requirement for many journalists, whether reporting breaking news events or investigating atrocities. In this workshop, ...
Making secondary trauma a primary issue: understanding the impact of vicarious trauma in newsrooms. A growing number of journalists who regularly handle images and videos sourced from the social ...
"An international team of journalists with literally dozens of years’ worth of combined experience as online community organizers, storytellers and curators. We take pride in being active, engaged...
If newspapers are "zombies", journalism wants to survive and prosper. Economic sustainability is the philosopher's stone that everyone is still searching for, starting from one certainty; in a digital...
With the emergence of a widespread surveillance system in the NSA files, the Edward Snowden case has deeply affected journalism, both in terms of the role played by the media and of the practices adop...
News reporting and social media curation The Arab Spring and similar events have revealed the importance of social media in any information flow. Online news outlets are integrating collaborative too...
Tweeting the Arab Spring: capturing history, 140 characters at a time Keynote speech by Andy Carvin. Introduction by Carlo Antonelli.
