Tim Pool has had a busy career in the journalism and media world. Early in his career, Pool worked for mainstream companies like Vice and Fusion TV. Nowadays, he has built his own media empire that helps him to produce his own independent works.
Growing up on the south side of Chicago, Pool saw a lot of terrible crimes and conflicts every day. He knew it wasn’t just happening in his city either. Places all around the world were struggling and were riddled with violence. Pool left school at the age of fourteen and began live streaming protests. The first live stream he did that gained a lot of recognition was the Occupy Wall Street protests in 2011. Not only did Pool create livestreams for the event, but he also developed a new way to view the protests; from above. As a foreshadow to his future entrepreneurship career, Pool developed a way to live-stream from a drone flying above the action.
His work during the Occupy protests got Pool national attention through NBC and other mainstream medias including Vice. They offered Pool a position at Vice and he began writing articles for them. While at Vice in 2013, Pool wrote articles on the Gezi Park protests with Google glass and mass protests in Ukraine that led to the fall of the Yanukovych government.
Later in his career, Pool found himself at the Milwaukee riots in 2016 and discovered a possible line that he would not plan on crossing. He found the events to be dangerous due to the escalating “racial tensions”. By 2017 Pool is doing more independent work with stories like the “no-go zones” in Sweden. He gained funding from other journalists to continue his research in Europe and eventually concluded that the so called “violent” situation with migrants in Sweden were timid compared to the common violence found in his hometown of Chicago.
Other than being a prominent media journalist and YouTuber, Pool is a media entrepreneur. Some of his collaborations include a mobile app called Tagg.ly that puts watermarks on photos and co-founded a news company called Subverse (later named SCNR). Pool has a wide range of viewers, but it presently followed by a majority of right-winged audiences. Most of his articles have a political theme to them, though Pool does not seem to completely radical or severely conservative in his opinions.
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