What Makes A Good Social Media Editor? AP's Eric Carvin Shares

Eric Carvin has spent the last 12 years of his life working at the AP. He’s recently been named social media editor for the wire service. Digiday interviewed him about what the job entails.

A good social media editor for a news organization, he says, needs to have strong news skills, “separate from your social media skills….At the same time you need to understand social media, that engaging with the public is a worthy goal,” he says.

“If

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