Carvin briefed National Press Foundation fellows in July 2022: Working Through Trauma – Literally. 

Eric Carvin is the director of social newsgathering at NBC News, where he oversees a team of reporters who help power the news organization’s storytelling by finding, verifying and reporting on photos, videos, information and sources that are circulating on social web. Eric has focused on social journalism for more than a dozen of his 27 years in the news business, developing particular expertise around social newsgathering and the debunking of online misinformation.

Before joining NBC in 2021, Eric spent more than two decades at The Associated Press, most recently serving as the global news manager for verification – a role that put him in charge of the AP team that fact-checks questionable claims and visual content circulating online. He previously oversaw AP’s social newsgathering efforts as the news cooperative’s global news manager for digital newsgathering and, before that, its social media editor.

Eric lives in New York with his wife – a pioneer in the study of children’s developing brains – along with two energetic kids and an occasionally energetic cat. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking and foraging for edible plant life along the way.