Sky Dylan-Robbins

Sky Dylan-Robbins
Born	(1989-01-14) January 14, 1989 (age 35) New York City, U.S.
Education	Northwestern 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.

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.

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]