mesh 2012: Covering the Arab Spring with real-time journalism
Find out how prolific Twitter maven Andy Carvin of NPR covered the tumultous events during the Arab Spring using real-time journalism techniques. Digital Journal's liveblog of this mesh 2012 session is now over but can be read in its entirety.
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Thousands of protesters attended a rally in Tahrir Square to call on the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to transfer power to a civilian administration and to honour the revolution's martyrs
He's known as the one-man tweeting machine who helped tell the story of the Arab Spring to the Western world. Many news junkies turned to one source for information about what was happening on the ground, and that source was National Public Radio digital editor Andy Carvin.
Digital Journal liveblogged Carvin's talk on real-time journalism recently.
For the past two days, Digital Journal has been covering the two-day Toronto conference on digital media, and check out previous coverage here and here.
The liveblog's coverage is now available to check out, see below.
