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The Two-Way
'Time' Magazine Is Back With Its '140 Best Twitter Feeds'
March 21, 2012 For those who like Twitter and might want to check out some highly recommended feeds, Time magazine is again out with its list of the "140 best." Just like last year, NPR's Andy Carvin (@acarvin) is among those in the "News & Information" category.
NPR Ombudsman
War Is Hell: A Continuing Conversation On Social Media And War Reporting
February 13, 2012 Last week NPR's Andy Carvin explained his editorial decision to share a graphic video of injured Syrian children on his Twitter account. The majority of our readers agreed with him. But Sky News editor Neal Mann explains how he arrived at an opposite conclusion on a segment of On The Media.
NPR Ombudsman
War Is Hell: Andy Carvin and the Tweeting of a Graphic Syrian Video
February 6, 2012 How far can a social media journalist go in sending graphic videos of children and violence? NPR's near-legendary Andy Carvin got push-back yesterday for gruesome Syrian images that he re-Tweeted. Carvin argues that the rules of social and traditional media are different. Do we need to be reminded of the cost of war?
It's All Politics
Obama SOTU Word Cloud: People, Jobs, New, Years Loom Large
January 25, 2011 NPR's Andy Carvin made a word cloud of President Obama's 2011 State of the Union address.