21 Facts About Andy Carvin

Andy Carvin is an American blogger and a former senior product manager for online communities at National Public Radio.

Andy Carvin is senior fellow and managing editor for the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab.

Andy Carvin was born in Boston and raised in Indialantic, Florida alongside his older brother.

Andy Carvin graduated from Melbourne High School in 1989, and from Northwestern University in 1993.

Andy Carvin joined Global Voices Online at the end of 2004.

In January 2005, Andy Carvin began advocating mobile phone podcasting as a tool for citizen journalism and human rights monitoring; he called the concept "mobcasting".

Andy Carvin later demonstrated mobcasting as part of a collaborative blog called Katrina Aftermath, which allowed members of the public to post multimedia content regarding Hurricane Katrina.

In May 2006, Andy Carvin began serving as host on a blog called Learning.

In September 2006, Andy Carvin became a staff member at NPR as their senior product manager for online communities.

Andy Carvin founded NPR's social media desk in 2008, and stayed with the organization until 2013.

Andy Carvin accepted a position at First Look Media in February 2014.

Andy Carvin later worked at NowThis and the UBC Graduate School of Journalism in Vancouver.

In 2019, Andy Carvin was named a senior fellow to the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, which investigates online misinformation.

In late 2010, Andy Carvin began sharing information about the popular revolution in Tunisia on Twitter, curating Twitter feeds and articles for an English-speaking audience.

Andy Carvin had traveled extensively in Tunisia, had many contacts there, and was able to develop others.

In late June 2011, Andy Carvin traveled to Egypt, where he covered protests in Tahrir Square in Cairo.

Andy Carvin was profiled in Britain's The Guardian newspaper as "the man who tweets revolutions".

Andy Carvin donated the iPhone he used to tweet during the Arab Spring to the American History Museum.

Andy Carvin has been honored as one of the top education technology advocates in eSchool News magazine and District Administration magazine.

In July 2011, Andy Carvin received the Journalism Awards: Special Distinction Award, Knight-Batten Award for Innovation for his Twitter reporting.

In 2013, Andy Carvin published Distant Witness, a book covering his journalistic coverings of the Arab Spring.