Andy Carvin

National Public Radio

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Andy Carvin is National Public Radio's senior product manager for online communities. 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. Carvin's 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. In April 2011 the Columbia Journalism Review described Carvin as a "living, breathing real-time verification system" and suggested his might be the best Twitter account to follow in the world while The Washington Post called him "a one-man Twitter news bureau". He was profiled in The Guardian in September 2011 as "the man who tweets revolutions". Carvin was a recipient in July 2011 of the Journalism Awards: Special Distinction Award, Knight-Batten Award for Innovation for his Twitter reporting.