The Final Tweet of David Carr

In the words of The New York Times, “David Carr, the 58-year-old media columnist for the New York Times, collapsed suddenly at the newspaper’s office this evening (last night) and died after being rushed to the hospital…Just hours before his death, Carr interviewed whistleblower Edward Snowden along with journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, who helped to bring Snowden’s revelations about the NSA’s surveillance program to light, during a live interview in New York. (Snowden appeared remotely.)”

4 hours before the announcement of his death, David Carr retweeted this, his final tweet.

Now that I’ve painfully ended a sentence with the word, “tweet” (Yuck!), here’s David Carr’s final interview. Our condolences to his family and friends. It’s an excellent conversation with Snowden, Poitras and Greenwald from 6:45pm. By around 9:00pm, he was dead.

Mr. Carr collapsed in the Times newsroom, where he was found shortly before 9 p.m. He was taken to St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. – The New York Times