Data Journalism

On this week’s show, I talk with Aaron Williams about his work as a data journalist, scientist and visualization expert tackling inequity in data and design at scale.

Christine Zhang just joined the Financial Times as a data journalist on the US elections team for 2020. Previously, she was a data journalist at The Baltimore Sun, where she used numbers, statistics and graphics to tell local news stories…

Part of the FT’s interactive news team, John-Burn Murdoch works as a journalist alongside developers and designers to produce a mix of long term data-driven projects and same day interactive news stories. Other activities include presenting to domestic and overseas…

Lazaro Gamio is a deputy managing editor at Axios, where he oversees a group of visual journalists that make charts, maps, interactive graphics and editorial illustrations. He previously worked at the Washington Post as an assignment editor on the graphics…

Alex Selby-Boothroyd joined The Economist as an interactive visual data journalist in 2015 and now runs the data journalism department. His team writes data-driven articles and creates all of the static and interactive charts and maps for the website, apps and weekly…

Ben Welsh is the editor of the Data Desk at the LA Times (@LATdatadesk), a team of reporters and computer programmers in the newsroom that works to collect, organize, analyze and present large amounts of information. Projects that he has contributed…