Sky Dylan-Robbins

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Sky Dylan-Robbins
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Born (1989-01-14) January 14, 1989 (age 35)
New York City, U.S.
EducationNorthwestern University
Occupation(s)Journalist, documentary producer, entrepreneur
Website www.skydylanrobbins.com

Sky Dylan-Robbins (born Skyler Dylan-Robbins on January 14, 1989) is an American journalist, documentary producer [1] and media entrepreneur. [2] She is the founder and Executive Director of The Video Consortium [3] , a global nonprofit network that connects journalists and documentary filmmakers around the world. She was a journalist at The New Yorker [4] and a producer at NBC News.

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Early life

Born and raised in New York City, [5] Dylan-Robbins is the only child of media personality and education entrepreneur Ellie Dylan and Steven Robbins, a business executive. [6] She attended the Rudolf steiner school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side [7] and went on to receive a Bachelor of Arts in Radio/Television/Film, Italian, and Sociology from Northwestern University, cum laude. [8] She spent her junior year making films in Italy [9] [10] and studying cinema at the University of Bologna.

Career

Dylan-Robbins began her career at Tumblr as its editorial video lead. [11] With journalist Jessica Bennett and media executive Chris Mohney, [12] she covered subcultures, news, and trends among the platform's 475 million blogs for its online magazine, Storyboard, [13] while partnering with media outlets like Time [14] and WNYC. [15]

In 2013, she was hired by The New Yorker’s Nicholas Thompson to produce the magazine's video series [16] and short documentaries. Dylan-Robbins worked at the magazine when video was becoming the focus of media outlets as a tool for growth and developed The New Yorker’s video strategy. [17] During her four years at the magazine, Dylan-Robbins reported [4] on a range of topics from the rise of e-cigarettes [18] and the overuse of c-sections [19] to California's deadly drought [20] and psilocybin’s healing effects on the terminally ill. [21] [22] She helped migrate the magazine onto emerging platforms like Snapchat [23] to reach a younger audience.

In 2017, Dylan-Robbins left the magazine for NBC to help launch a new video initiative under the umbrella of NBC News. [24] She worked across digital, streaming, and broadcast departments, [25] reporting on stories in America, [26] [27] Japan, [28] Italy, [29] and the Balkans. [30] She worked at NBC exactly forty years after her mother, Ellie Dylan, was at the network, [31] which inspired Dylan-Robbins to use old segments from her mother's reportage and feature them to show changing trends across the decades. [32] [33] While at The New Yorker, Dylan-Robbins founded the Video Consortium, [3] a 501(c)3-registered nonprofit network that supports, develops, and connects the next generation of video journalists and documentary filmmakers with resources, tools, and jobs. [34] The network has chapters around the world. [35] [36] [37] [38] Dylan-Robbins serves as its Executive Director.

Dylan-Robbins is recognized for her media innovation and was chosen by Forbes magazine as a 30 under 30 in the Media category. [39] She has received numerous journalism accolades, including Pictures of the Year International, [40] New York Press Club, [41] the Newswomen's Club of New York, [42] the James Beard Foundation, [43] and the Society of Publication Designers. [44] She won a Webby Award in 2013 for her work with Storyboard. [45]

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