Eric, who directs social strategy at AP, has served on the ONA board since the start of 2014 and is recognized as a leading industry thinker on social journalism and on the ethics of digital news.<\/p>\n
Eric oversees AP\u2019s use of social media to uncover breaking news, gather user-generated content, connect with readers and share powerful content. He also guides AP\u2019s 2,000-plus journalists as they use social in the pursuit of news. A 16-year AP veteran, he has extensive experience with innovative and interactive storytelling. He ran Ask AP, a column in which AP journalists answered readers\u2019 questions about the news, and he edited \u201cFar and Wide,\u201d AP\u2019s first news blog. He has played a number of other roles at AP, at times coordinating the global news report, at others editing national news copy or analyzing exit poll results.<\/p>\n
At ONA, Eric founded and chairs the board\u2019s News Ethics Committee. He also co-founded an ONA working group that is examining standards and ethics issues related to social newsgathering and that has reshaped the industry\u2019s conversation around this critical topic.<\/p>\n
Away from work, Eric spends his free time chasing a toddler and a 4-year-old around the living room and, weather-permitting, the playground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2894,"template":"","meta":{"start_time":0,"end_time":0,"moderators":[],"hashtag":[],"soundcloud":[],"scribble":[],"viafoura":[],"youtube":[],"vimeo":[],"facebook":[],"trint":[],"slideshare":[],"livestream":[],"resources":[],"video_embed":[],"first_name":"Eric","last_name":"Carvin","title":"Social Media Editor","organization":"The Associated Press","website":"http:\/\/www.ap.org\/","twitter":"EricCarvin","_sponsor_url":"","_sponsor_tagline":"","_sponsor_level":"","spay_email":""},"event":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/2893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ona_speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ona16.journalists.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event?post=2893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}