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.
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.