Andy Carvin recently joined First Look Media as one of its senior editors. Prior to First Look, Andy was senior strategist at NPR's social media desk, where he leads NPR's efforts to integrate social media into the newsroom. Since 2006, Andy has pioneered NPR's use of Twitter and Facebook in its reporting, most notably during the Arab Spring, during which he used social media to become a virtually embedded reporter among revolutionary groups. Collaborating with his tens of thousands of Twitter followers, he broke news from across the region, debunked rumors and authenticated footage. For this work, Andy won a 2012 Knight Batten Award for journalism innovation and was named Best Journalist on Twitter during the 2012 Shorty Awards. He was also a finalist for the TIME 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. He is also the author of Distant Witness, a book about his experiences using social media to cover the Arab Spring.

Kelly McBride is a writer, teacher and one of the country’s leading voices when it comes to media ethics. She is the Vice President for Academic Programs at the Poynter Institute. The world’s largest newsrooms, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, NPR and the BBC, frequently quote her expertise.

After getting her bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, she began her career as a police reporter in the hills of the Idaho Panhandle, covering meth dealers and white supremacists. She earned a master’s degree in theology from Gonzaga University and gained a national reputation as a religion reporter.

At Poynter, she has served as the director of the college fellowship program, ESPN’s ombudsman, and the founder of the Sense-Making Project, a Ford Foundation initiative examining the effects of technology on democracy. In 2015 she is lead faculty for the Leadership Academy for Women in Digital Journalism.