Reporting to the Guardian’s deputy editor and incoming editor-in-chief of theguardian.com, Janine Gibson, Nardelli has worked at the intersection of news, digital and data for over a decade.
Nardelli will join the Guardian from Tweetminster, which he co-founded in 2008, initially to enable people to find and follow MPs on Twitter. Since then, Tweetminster has grown to become a leading technology and news company, which follows thousands of influential social media voices in politics, media, business and sport to identify the most relevant topics shaping world events and package them with data to tell compelling stories.
For the last two years, Nardelli has overseen Tweetminster’s @electionista news service, a live feed of breaking stories and opinion polls from over 100 countries around the world, which has data, social and mobile at its heart.
In his new role, Nardelli will be responsible for developing data-driven news stories and projects for theguardian.com, as well as the Guardian and Observer newspapers. He will also oversee the Datastore site and, more broadly, help to create new editorial innovations to advance Guardian News & Media’s digital storytelling.
Speaking about his appointment, Nardelli said: "The Guardian is one of the few global news organisations that still comprehensively focuses and invests in international news, and never has there been a more exciting time to join a news organisation. The Guardian pioneered data journalism, and I’m thrilled by the prospect of working with some of the most talented names in journalism to build world class data-driven storytelling and new formats to cover global news events.”
Janine Gibson said: “With a UK general election less than a year away, Alberto’s expertise in political data storytelling will help ensure the Guardian remains at the forefront of data journalism. We can’t wait for him to join us in September.”
Nardelli replaces the Guardian’s former data editor, James Ball, who has been working in the US as special projects editor and will also return to the UK in September.
