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Alberto Nardelli, the co-founder of Tweetminster, has been appointed as the Guardian’s data editor.
Nardelli – who launched Tweetminster in 2008, initially to enable people to find and follow MPs, but which in recent years has expanded into media, business and sport – will join the Guardian in September.
He will report to Janine Gibson, the Guardian’s deputy editor and editor-in-chief of theguardian.com, who is set to return to London from editing the Guardian’s US operation at the end of the summer.
“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,” said Gibson.
Nardelli, currently the chief executive of Tweetminster, has recently been focusing on @electionista, a live feed of breaking news and opinion polls from more than 100 countries.
“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,” said Nardelli.
He replaces James Ball, who now works as special projects editor out of the US office and will return to London in September.
His predecessor, Simon Rogers, joined Twitter in the US as its first data editor in 2013.
Nardelli marks Gibson’s second big-name hiring since her promotion was announced in March.
In May, Aron Pilhofer, a senior digital executive at the New York Times, was appointed to the role of executive editor of digital.
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