Occupation Journalist Role Journalist Name Tim Pool | Website Tim Pool Years active 2011–present | |
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Tim pool the journalism revolution
Timothy Pool (born March 9, 1986) is an American journalist. In 2011, his 21-hour marathon reporting during the Occupy Wall Street protests earned him fame when he primarily reported using mobile technology for social media and live broadcasting.
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- Tim pool the journalism revolution
- Virtual Roundtable Tim Pool Founder TimcastTV Producer Host at Vice Media
- Personal life
- Career
- Reporting style
- Occupy Wall Street
- NONATO protests incident
- Reporting on immigration issues in Sweden
- Awards
- References
Virtual Roundtable: Tim Pool, Founder, Timcast.TV, Producer & Host at Vice Media
Personal life
Pool grew up with his three siblings in Chicago's southside to a lower-middle-class family. He left school at age 14, educating himself at home through books.
Pool identifies his ancestry as Korean, Osage, and German-Irish.
Career
Pool's coverage has been carried and syndicated by multiple mainstream outlets including NBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera, and Time. He was covered by Fast Company and Wired. In 2013, Pool joined Vice Media producing and hosting content as well as developing new methods of reporting In 2014, he joined Fusion TV as Director of Media innovation and Senior Correspondent.
Pool is the co-founder of Tagg.ly, a mobile application for watermarking photos and videos in order to allow copyrights to be withheld by users.
Reporting style
Pool uses a live-chat stream to respond to questions from viewers while reporting. Pool has also let his viewers direct him on where to shoot footage. He modified a toy remote-controlled Parrot AR.Drone for aerial surveillance and modified software for live streaming into a system called DroneStream.
Pool uses new technologies for coverage of events. In 2013, he reported on the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul with Google Glasses.
Occupy Wall Street
Pool's use of livestreaming video and aerial drones during Occupy Wall Street protests prompted an article in The Guardian about excessive surveillance. He has often been threatened for filming. In January 2012 he was physically accosted by a masked assailant. Pool's video taken during the protests was instrumental evidence in the acquittal of photographer Alexander Arbuckle, who had been arrested by the NYPD. The video showed that the arresting officer lied under oath, though no charges were filed.
NONATO protests incident
While covering the NONATO protests at the 2012 Chicago summit, Pool, along with four others was pulled over by a dozen Chicago police officers in unmarked vehicles. The group was removed from the vehicle at gunpoint, interrogated and searched. The official reason given by police was that the vehicle the team had been in matched a description. The group was released after approximately 10 minutes.
Reporting on immigration issues in Sweden
In February 2017, Pool traveled to Sweden to investigate media reports of "no-go zones" and problems with refugees in the country. He did this partly in response to a challenge from Infowars writer Paul Joseph Watson, who offered to pay for travel costs and accommodation for any reporter "to stay in crime ridden migrant suburbs of Malmö." Swedish police disputed Pool's report that police had escorted him out after advising him to leave the Rinkeby area.