SXSW 2012

Former Poynter.org Managing Editor, Current Managing editor of The Lens
The Poynter Institute
Steve Myers is managing editor of The Lens, a nonprofit investigative news site in New Orleans. Before joining The Lens in 2012, he was managing editor of Poynter Online, the preeminent source of news and training about the journalism industry. At Poynter, he wrote about emerging media practices such as citizen journalism, nonprofit news sites, real-time reporting via social media, data-oriented news apps, iPhoneography, and fact-checking. An upcoming Poynter book about journalism ethics includes his essay on the state of the fact-checking niche. At SXSW 2012, he spoke about citizen journalism with the man who live-tweeted the Osama bin Laden raid.