Tim Pool

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Tim Pool (2014)

Timothy "Tim" Pool (born March 9, 1986 ) is an American journalist . In 2011 he was best known for 21 hours of marathon coverage using mobile technology, social media and live broadcast of the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Private life

Pool grew up with three siblings in southern Chicago in a lower-middle-class family. At the age of 14 he left school and studied at home with books.

Professional activities

Pools reports were published by popular media outlets such as NBC , Al Jazeera , Time , New York Times, and Fast Company . In 2013, Pool joined Vice Media , producing content and developing new reporting methods. In 2014 he became Head of Media Innovation and Senior Correspondent at Fusion TV. He is co-founder of Tagg.ly , a mobile application for marking photos and videos with watermarks to protect copyrights .

In 2012 Pool was nominated for the Time 100 . In 2013 he received the Shorty Award in the Best Journalist category . In 2014 he made it to the final of the Shorty Award again , but did not reach first place.

Reporting style

Pool uses live streaming with a chat function to answer audience questions while reporting. In doing so, he lets spectators direct him where to point the camera. He converted a Parrot AR.Drone for aerial observation and developed live streaming software into a system called DroneStream . In 2013 he reported on the Gezi Park protests in Istanbul with a Google Glass .

Tim Pool operates the “Tim Pool”, “Timcast” and “Timcast IRL” channels on YouTube.

Occupy Wall Street protests

Pool's use of live streaming video and drones during the Occupy Wall Street protests prompted the Guardian to write an article about excessive surveillance. He was often threatened because of his recordings. In January 2012, he was physically attacked by a masked assailant.

Pool's video of the protests was used as evidence to exonerate photographer Alexander Arbuckle, who was arrested by New York police . The footage showed that the police officer who arrested him had lied under oath.

NONATO protests

During a report on the NONATO protests at the 2012 NATO summit, Pool and four other people were stopped by a dozen Chicago police officers in civilian vehicles. The group was taken from their vehicle with guns drawn, questioned and searched. The police justified the measure by saying that the group's vehicle matched the description of a vehicle they were looking for. After about ten minutes, the group was released.

Report on migration problems in Sweden

In February 2017, Pool traveled to Sweden to check media reports on no-go areas and problems with refugees in the country. The occasion was a controversial comment by US President Donald Trump about alleged problems with migrant crime in Sweden. Pool then started a crowdfunding campaign and received $ 2,000 (out of $ 20,000) in support of a call from Infowars author Paul Joseph Watson , who offered to cover travel and accommodation costs for any journalist who said Sweden was safe and "Go to the crime-ridden migrant suburbs of Malmö ".

Swedish police denied Pool's allegation that police escorted him after advising him to leave the square in Rinkeby , where people appeared to be starting to mask. The police announced that he was starting to film camera shy young people from the middle of the square complaining. He was asked not to film from the center of the square, where the police were present for a poetry meeting due to a rush of visitors and then happened to take the same route to the nearby Rinkeby Academy, where Pool's car was parked.

G20 summit in Hamburg

When Pool wanted to report on the riots at the G20 summit in Hamburg in 2017 , the links activist and blogger of the Zeit-Online project Störungsmelder Sören Kohlhuber published pictures of Pool and other journalists on Twitter and claimed that they were all supporters of the Identitarian Movement . An Antifa Twitter account then provided information on the whereabouts of the journalists, who were attacked and severely threatened several times by violent demonstrators. Kohlhuber was then accused of staging a hunt, and Zeit-Online ended the collaboration.

Awards

  • Shorty Award in the Best Journalist Category (2013)

Web links

Commons : Tim Pool  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Allie Townsend: Watch: Occupy Wall Street, Broadcasting Live , Time, Nov. 15, 2011.
  2. ↑ Jim Fields: The Media Messenger of Zuccotti Park , Time, December 14, 2011.
  3. ↑ Martha DeGrasse: Mobile phone streams Occupy Wall Street to the world , RCRWireless, November 17, 2011.
  4. ↑ José Manuel Simián: Indignado en Wall St - La Tercera El Semanal - La Tercera Edición Impresa ( Web Archive ), COPESA Consorcio Periodistico de Chile, February 27, 2015
  5. ↑ a b c Sean Captain: Threat Level: Livestreaming Journalists Want to Occupy the Skies With Cheap Drones , Wired, January 6, 2012.
  6. ^ Adam Martin, The Very Public Breakup of Occupy Wall Street's Ustream Team , The Atlantic Wire, Jan. 5, 2012
  7. ↑ Joe Coscarelli: Daily Intel: Occupy Wall Street's Video Stars Are Feuding , New York Magazine January 5, 2012.
  8. ↑ Sean Captain: Tim Pool And Henry Ferry: The Men Behind Occupy Wall Street's Live Stream , Fast Company, November 21, 2011.
  9. ↑ Stuart Dredge: How Vice's Tim Pool used Google Glass to cover Istanbul protests , Guardian, July 30, 2013.
  10. ↑ Emily Steel, Fusion Set to Name Director of Media Innovation , New York Times, Sept. 7, 2014.
  11. ^ Fusion Brings On Tim Pool , Cision.com, September 9, 2014.
  12. ↑ Paul Sawers: Vice's Tim Pool Launches Tagg.ly Watermarking App , The Next Web, May 8, 2017
  13. ↑ The 2012 Time 100 Poll: David Graeber and Tim Pool , Time, March 29, 2012.
  14. ^ Past Winners & Nominees - The Shorty Awards. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .
  15. ↑ Occupy PressThink: Tim Pool , PressThink, November 20, 2011th
  16. ^ A b Noel Sharkey, Sarah Knuckey: Occupy Wall Street's 'occucopter' - who's watching whom? , The Guardian, December 21, 2011
  17. ^ Adam Martin: Occupy Wall Street Has a Drone: The Occucopter , The Atlantic Wire, December 7, 2011.
  18. ^ Stuart Dredge, How Vice's Tim Pool used Google Glass to cover Istanbul protests , The Guardian, July 30, 2013.
  19. ↑ Tim Pool. Accessed October 2, 2019 (German).
  20. ↑ Timcast. Accessed October 2, 2019 (German).
  21. ↑ Timcast IRL. Accessed October 2, 2019 (German).
  22. ^ Ryan Devereaux: Occupy Wall Street: 'There's a militant animosity bred by direct action,' The Guardian, Feb. 3, 2012.
  23. ↑ Christopher Robbins: Anarchists Think Photographers And Reporters Are The "Fu * king Enemy" ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Gothamist, May 8, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gothamist.com
  24. ^ Paul Levinson: New New Media , 2nd ed., Pearson, 2012, p. 182.
  25. ↑ Lisa Parker: Independent Journalists Detained at Gunpoint , NBC Chicago, May 21, 2012.
  26. ↑ George Bowden: Paul Joseph Watson Comes Good On Twitter Offer To 'Investigate Malmo, Sweden, Crimes' , Huffington Post, February 21, 2017.
  27. ↑ Jessica Brown: The man sent to 'crime ridden' Sweden by a right-wing journalist has reported his findings , Independent, February 28, 2017.
  28. ↑ Police dispute US journalist's claim he was escorted out of Rinkeby , The Local, March 1, 2017.
  29. ↑ Marvin Schade: After "Hetzjagd" allegations at the G20: Zeit Online separates from "Störungsmelder" author Sören Kohlhuber , Meedia, 10 July 2017.
  30. ↑ On our own behalf / A Note to Our Readers , Zeit online, July 8, 2017.
  31. ↑ Chenda Ngak: 2013 Shorty Awards honors Michelle Obama, Jimmy Kimmel , CBS News, April 9, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Pool, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pool, Timothy (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1986